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Refurb: 12TB HGST Ultrastar HC520 7.2K RPM SATA 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Expired

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goHardDrive via eBay has 12TB HGST Ultrastar HC520 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 xrossastrike for finding this deal
  • Note: Includes a 1-Year Allstate Warranty + a 5-Year Warranty from the Reseller.
Specs:
  • 12TB Internal Capacity
  • 3.5" Form Factor
  • SATA 6Gb/s Interface
  • 256MB Cache
  • 7.2K RPM Spindle Speed

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  • About this Deal:
    • This sale price matches this popular FrontPage Deal from earlier this month which received over 60 thumbs up from the community.
  • Condition Notes (per product page):
    • These HDD is used by Datacenter Servers for about 5 years period. HDD was refurbished and data wiped with DoD Standard. It's fully tested & passed HGST factory diagnose software test with ZERO Bad sectors! Since this is a heavy duty enterprise HDD with 2.5M-hour MTBF rating. We are confidence that to honor another 5 Years Warranty from these hard drives! Buy with confidence & Worry Free
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Like past deals on this drive it is back at 79.99 on Ebay from goharddrive.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/156046813385
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Last Edited by KarateB0b March 30, 2024 at 05:39 PM
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Yes, like every other SPD or goharddrive deal that gets posted here. Not sure why the comment is necessary. Those shopping for enterprise drives know what they're in for.
There's no definitive answer. It's the age-old argument of is it better to save wear and tear via start-stop cycles or save power-on hours.
6 of one, a half dozen of the other.

If you're doing drive imaging backups of something like a system drive under Windows, I'd recommend Macrium Reflect.
If you're just doing a basic sync, I like FreeFileSync personally.

If you can, I like to buy slightly different models or try to buy from a different vendor to differentiate model numbers or at least HDD batch numbers. Just in case a firmware bug or some other unexpected flaw for that particular model or batch eats one of my drives. At least the other one (or other set) will likely survive. Just a thought.

Also don't forget to do a full surface test, which will likely take more than a day at these drive sizes. You can use something as simple as WD Data Lifeguard for this.
I have been running used server-grade drives in my JBOD enclosure for years without any issues. If you have proper data protection in place, like a raid array, you will not lose data regardless of a drive failure. You are much better off having two used drives in a raid array than one new drive with no backup.

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03-28-2024 at 03:53 PM.

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Yes, like every other SPD or goharddrive deal that gets posted here. Not sure why the comment is necessary. Those shopping for enterprise drives know what they're in for.
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03-28-2024 at 03:55 PM.
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Serverpartdeals had an ebay listing on 10 Mar 2024 for $72.99 for 12 TB used drives (ST12000NM0127).
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03-28-2024 at 04:00 PM.
03-28-2024 at 04:00 PM.
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Serverpartdeals had an ebay listing on 10 Mar 2024 for $72.99 for 12 TB used drives (ST12000NM0127).
$68 for the OP's listing if you use a third party coupon.
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03-28-2024 at 04:16 PM.
03-28-2024 at 04:16 PM.
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$68 for the OP's listing if you use a third party coupon.
Whatcha talking about Willis?? 3rd party coupon??

PM if necessary Big Grin
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03-28-2024 at 04:35 PM.
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Whatcha talking about Willis?? 3rd party coupon??

PM if necessary Big Grin
Edit, still works. Just had to login to my ebay account first, 15% discount.

The discussion is in the 10TB thread by the same seller.
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03-28-2024 at 05:36 PM.
03-28-2024 at 05:36 PM.
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Edit, still works. Just had to login to my ebay account first, 15% discount.

The discussion is in the 10TB thread by the same seller.
Mine shows the code has expired
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03-28-2024 at 05:40 PM.
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Whatcha talking about Willis?? 3rd party coupon??

PM if necessary Big Grin
The thread the other person mentioned is here I believe (link). Someone else posted that rmn15 was a good code, but I'm not sure if that's accurate. You'll have to investigate.
https://slickdeals.net/f/17341125-10tb-hgst-wd-ultrastar-dc-hc510-3-5-sata-7200rpm-hard-drive-refurb-70-free-shipping?page=10#commentsSection
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03-28-2024 at 06:00 PM.
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Mine shows the code has expired
I can't recreate it again now either with a different account, but it did work for me earlier so YMMV.
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03-28-2024 at 06:07 PM.
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Quote from lastwraith :
The thread the other person mentioned is here I believe (link). Someone else posted that rmn15 was a good code, but I'm not sure if that's accurate. You'll have to investigate.
https://slickdeals.net/f/17341125-10tb-hgst-wd-ultrastar-dc-hc510-3-5-sata-7200rpm-hard-drive-refurb-70-free-shipping?page=10#commentsSection
I have tried at least a dozen coupon codes on various browsers, devices (Windows and Android), logged in and not logged in and no luck at all.

I have two drives sitting in my cart and am going to work at it for a while, but I don't know how much of my time $20 is worth. It would be nice if people were allowed to post codes without sending others on a wild goose chase.
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03-28-2024 at 06:21 PM.
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I have tried at least a dozen coupon codes on various browsers, devices (Windows and Android), logged in and not logged in and no luck at all.

I have two drives sitting in my cart and am going to work at it for a while, but I don't know how much of my time $20 is worth. It would be nice if people were allowed to post codes without sending others on a wild goose chase.
I was on Android in firefox focus. It didn't work as someone had suggested earlier as a guest, but it did when I logged in three hours or so ago. Window seems to have closed on that.
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You may want to run a full scan on these drives before actually using instead of a quick format or quick surface test. I ran into some weird issues between using it on a very old USB3 external dock and the motherboard's SATA controller (NTFS via Windows 11). After tons of research it was suggested that some docks use 4K sector conversion that rewrites the sector sizes making it somewhat incompatible if you switch the drive from one interface to another. That actually wasn't the issue as I was able to use both interchangeably only after a full drive scan (that returned no errors).

I originally formatted the drive on the SATA controller for reference but prior to scanning the drive, all new files I tried writing from the dock (tested and verified), wouldn't show up at all when I switched it over to the motherboard SATA. In one instance everything sort of disappeared when I ran a quick scan while the drive was docked (and later corrected after a chkdsk run).
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