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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.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/156046813385
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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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All SMART data okay
i ran short and extended tests on HDDScan and WD Dashboard were fine
Is this all okay or hours too high?
So I'm putting this in an old Synology DS216Play 2Bay I got for free. Should I be able to put this in without the tape trick since it's going into a NAS?
So I'm putting this in an old Synology DS216Play 2Bay I got for free. Should I be able to put this in without the tape trick since it's going into a NAS?
I have a Synology DS918+ and did not need to tape or use adapter. Try throwing in the drive first and see if it will take it first.
I've also reached out to the seller and am awaiting a reply.
SMART shows 29,560 hours, 154 start/stop count, and over 4 trillion LBAs written & read.
Now that it's formatted, hopefully I can install in the tower and not fail the boot.
Power on time: 785 days, 19 hours = 18859 hours
Total start/stop count: 79
That equates to 2.15 years on time, slightly less than some others reported here.
The disk was provided with MBR partition table format, so I had to convert to GPT in order to get a partition > 2TB.
Just finished an extended SMART scan which took 21.5 hours. No errors found.
I put this into an old Dell minitower which I use as a DVR/media server. Had to use the included SATA adapter for it to spin up; that was fairly expected. Temps, which will of course vary based on your unit, hit about 43oC max during the SMART testing. Noise is minimal, but the PC is in an open closet across the room so not audible during my media consumption.
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I always do the longest test with a full write/read verify to shake out bad drives.
I use disk-filltest.
https://panthema.net/2013/disk-fi...20sequence.
and use crystaldiskinfo to check if the bad cluster number has gone up.
People buy used cars and if they know what they are buying it can be a decent value.
People have redundant arrays, and things like plex/jellyfin data aren't mission critical data.
Someone mentioned the first year is through square trade and years after till 5year is through seller
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I've also reached out to the seller and am awaiting a reply.
Make sure PWDIS isn't your problem. If the drive is detected, it shouldn't be, but easy enough to be sure of by taping the connector and/or using a molex adapter temporarily.
Edit - Nevermind, I see you're good.