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12TB Seagate 3.5" 256MB 7200RPM SATA Enterprise Hard Drive (Refurb)

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goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has 12TB Seagate 3.5" 256MB 7200RPM SATA Enterprise Hard Drive (ST12000NM0127, Excellent - Refurbished) for $81.99. Shipping is free.

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Condition Notes:
  • 0 Bad Sectors. Grade A Refurbished. Fully Tested & Pass Sector-by-sectors test & Factory Diagnose software (No stuck / freezes HDD, perfectly smooth & high performance)
  • 3 Years Warranty from Reseller, 1 Year warranty serviced by Allstate

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  • About this Store:
    • goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has a 99.9% postive rating from over 100k feedback.
    • 30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.
  • Additional Information:
    • This price matches our recent popular front page deal that has earned 45 thumbs up.
    • These certified refurbished hard drives are priced at ~$6.83 per TB of storage space.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.

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goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has 12TB Seagate 3.5" 256MB 7200RPM SATA Enterprise Hard Drive (ST12000NM0127, Excellent - Refurbished) for $81.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Hunter tDames for sharing this deal.

Condition Notes:
  • 0 Bad Sectors. Grade A Refurbished. Fully Tested & Pass Sector-by-sectors test & Factory Diagnose software (No stuck / freezes HDD, perfectly smooth & high performance)
  • 3 Years Warranty from Reseller, 1 Year warranty serviced by Allstate

Editor's Notes

Written by jimmytx | Staff
  • About this Store:
    • goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has a 99.9% postive rating from over 100k feedback.
    • 30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.
  • Additional Information:
    • This price matches our recent popular front page deal that has earned 45 thumbs up.
    • These certified refurbished hard drives are priced at ~$6.83 per TB of storage space.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.

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Ad0nis
287 Posts
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Just received mine. Tested with chkdsk and passed /f /r /x.
Always test these before you deploy them on servers.
Egat
40 Posts
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Yeah, you'll find how people who understand how to safely maintain data with backups are happy to ride out the (generally long) life left on these used enterprise drives for the significant discount.

Then you'll also find the people who have no understanding of how to protect data, or the bathtub curve of failure, getting thumbs down for their "warnings"
TheFranticGibbon
62 Posts
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Let the "Seagate Sucks vs Western Digital Sucks" wars begin. I've been using several of these recertified data center drives from both manufacturers for years without any problems whatsoever but remember on a long enough timeline every drive will eventually fail. Just remember if you're storing critical data on any drive it would behoove you to practice redundancy and back it up elsewhere as well.

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Tourist1292
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Quote from Nurgle :
Thanks for the info. That part number seems to indicate that it's a Exos x12 series. Released in 2018.
It does not say x12 on the label although the part number is similar with one different digit. At least one seller list it as x12 though. This model was initially released in 2017.
Last edited by Tourist1292 February 23, 2024 at 08:39 PM.
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chrisfsk
Feb 24, 2024
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I received two yesterday and ran the test. These are what I have so far, should I return them?
Last edited by chrisfsk February 24, 2024 at 12:21 PM.
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BeigeCemetery6723
Feb 24, 2024
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Quote from chrisfsk :
I received two yesterday and ran the test. These are what I have so far, should I return them?
Mine passed disk-filltest, but still had to be returned because of the terrible grinding sound. I cant trust them.
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BoomSchtick
Feb 24, 2024
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I got mine today. I dropped it in my ProxMox host and it is REALLY quiet. I am running this on it for a few days:

# terminal 1
while true; do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/XDD bs=1000M; done
#terminal 2
while true; do dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/XDD bs=1000M; done
#terminal 3
while true; do dd if=/dev/XDD of=/dev/null bs=1000M; done

I got the idea from here [gleske.net]
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phantasy.
Feb 25, 2024
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Any idea what could be initially wrong with these HDDs? Why it was refurbished?
Feb 25, 2024
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phantasy.
Feb 25, 2024
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Is it save using these HDDs in server for storage?
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Ih8reb8s
Feb 25, 2024
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Quote from phantasy. :
Any idea what could be initially wrong with these HDDs? Why it was refurbished?
There is nothing wrong with these. They were pulled out of a data center because corporate data centers will replace hard drives after a certain amount of time to avoid disc failures. There is all sorts of discussion on how reliable these are or aren't, and I would encourage you to read through the thread. I bought two and and pleased with the purchase, but some others have reported differently. And of course it's safe to use these in a server for storage, that is what they were made for. The only question is how much life they have and how reliable they will be. I believe these will be reliable and worth it, and others have a different View.

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jack_d12
Feb 26, 2024
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Quote from chrisfsk :
I received two yesterday and ran the test. These are what I have so far, should I return them?
What application is that you are using to test the desk?
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DealMongr
Feb 26, 2024
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Quote from BeigeCemetery6723 :
Disk-Filltest or Badblocks scans takes upwards of 30 hours per drive.
Any recommendations for best utility to use on a Windows PC for the disk test/scan?
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BeigeCemetery6723
Feb 26, 2024
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Quote from DealMongr :
Any recommendations for best utility to use on a Windows PC for the disk test/scan?
Disk-Filltest
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Lark
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Buying refurbished hard drive is like buying used condom... it may help some people, but in the end it's dirty and less safety/reliable
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awdrifter
Feb 27, 2024
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA9Xq7hb6Q0

This is a pretty good explanation of hard drive life span.
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MWink
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Quote from DealMongr :
Any recommendations for best utility to use on a Windows PC for the disk test/scan?
HDDScan or Victoria.
Feb 27, 2024
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tjhess
Feb 27, 2024
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I cannot believe how noisy these drives are. I just cloned my 5TB music drive to it in under 6 hours so that was nice but man when I fired up my computer the next day (I have the drive sitting in a inateck bay) I was like what is that noise? lol

LOUD!!

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Feb 27, 2024
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BoomSchtick
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Quote from tjhess :
I cannot believe how noisy these drives are. I just cloned my 5TB music drive to it in under 6 hours so that was nice but man when I fired up my computer the next day (I have the drive sitting in a inateck bay) I was like what is that noise? lol

LOUD!!
Mine was super quiet. You'll want to stress test it before trusting it. My three days are up today.

https://sam.gleske.net/blog/engin...rives.html
Last edited by BoomSchtick February 27, 2024 at 10:13 AM.

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