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Refurb: 12TB HGST Ultrastar He12 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5" Internal Hard Drive + 5yr Warranty Expired
$80
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goHardDrive via eBay has 12TB HGST Ultrastar He12 7.2K RPM 6Gb/s SATA 3.5 Internal Hard Drive (Certified Refurbished, HUH721212ALE601) + 5-Year Seller Warranty on sale for $79.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member ServError for finding this deal
Thanks to Community Member ServError for finding this deal
- Note: Includes a 1-Year Allstate Warranty + a 5-Year Warranty from the Reseller.
- 12TB Internal Capacity
- Ultrastar He12 Series
- 3.5" Form Factor
- SATA 6Gb/s Interface
- 256MB Cache
- 7.2K RPM Spindle Speed
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Edited March 13, 2024
at 05:06 PM
For those of us who wanted goHardDrive's 5 year warranty on a 12TB HGST drive, the price has finally dropped to $80 matching what we saw from SPD.
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Just to get the rest of the nonsense out of the way :
1) Yes, it's a lot of data to potentially lose so don't be a moron and DO have a backup strategy if it's data you care about.
2) These drives potentially support PWDIS so make sure you do the 3.3v mod and tape or snip the pin if you have a drive that supports PWDIS but a PSU that doesn't. You can also use a Molex to SATA adapter, but use the crimped ones and not the molded ones since the molded ones can burn up.
3) Yes, they don't ACTUALLY refurbish the drive. Do you know how many places are equipped with a clean room to take apart drives and do actual refurbishing? I don't, but I do know that I don't want some random third party opening my HDD before they sell it to me. Slapping a sticker on it, doing a format or secure erase, and even blanking SMART is about all the refurbishing I require on an HDD. Or a PC for that matter.
4) Yes, these drives have a good number of hours on them. Yes, enterprise drive MTBF numbers are insanely high but don't necessarily guarantee a long life. Lots of hours doesn't necessarily mean a shorter lifespan either. If you can't handle that and would rather pay retail..... bye.
5) Yeo, these CAN be louder than normal drives. But honestly, the helium drives from WD have been no louder than most non-enterprise air drives I've dealt with in the past. Your enclosure, mounting strategy, closeness to the enclosure, and personal hearing ability are all variables we can't know. FWIW, I don't think these drives are "loud".
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HDDScan [hddscan.com]
Victoria [majorgeeks.com]
And an older BackBlaze report that mentioned one helium drive with decreasing values that still worked. Perhaps they have newer data on their helium drives that shows some with decreasing values, but I didn't look that hard because I'm not worried about this.
https://www.backblaze.c
Anecdotal random link =
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...ium_
Those are the best examples, but there are some other less informative examples online.
I use 6x4tb in raidz2 for truenas.
Backup is your friend…. This drive or any can and will fail. If you aren't following good backup procedures, you are just waiting to lose your data.
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I've seen plenty argue that these drives may be as reliable or more than new consumer drives. But for the sake of argument, let's just pretend that these are way less reliable. Making up numbers, let's pretend that the new consumer drive has a 1% chance of failing this year and these used drives have a 5% chance each.
We already stated that the new drive has a 1% chance of failing. So you've got a 1% chance of losing all of your data.
These drives are probably half the cost or less than a new consumer drive. So you can realistically purchase 2 of them instead of 1. Now you've got a drive performing backups. The odds of both 5% drives failing this year is 0.25%. This means you are much more likely to lose all of your data with the much more reliable single drive than with 2 less reliable ones.
I made up the 1% and 5% numbers. I suspect, at least for the duration of the warranty, that the odds of failure are much closer together. They might even be better for the used enterprise drive.
If your data is important, I'd suggest you start by looking up the 3-2-1 backup model. That requires at least 3 drives. Or 2 drives and some other cost like a subscription to a cloud provider.
If you know your strengths and your weaknesses, in 100 archival pursuits you shall lose no files.
FWIW....
You can email the seller to confirm, but it's 5 years from Newegg too as I've confirmed.
Something like this would do the job if you need a brand name.
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I personally have this one on my desktop.
USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard drive Docking Station [ebay.us]
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Do you know how to scan for bad sectors two drives that are in a RAID 1 mirroring setup? If we run one these programs like HDDScan and Victoria, would they scan both the drives for bad sectors? Or do I have to remove the drives from the RAID setup and scan them individually? Thank you.