expired Posted by scud133 • Apr 27, 2024
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expired Posted by scud133 • Apr 27, 2024
Apr 27, 2024 1:00 AM
16TB Seagate Exos X24 Enterprise 3.5" 7.2K RPM SATA Hard Drive (Recertified)
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They're still great deals. You're getting the remaining useful life on a drive made to run for a long time at high data rates. And, you can buy double the disks vs new ones, so you can setup your backup even easier.
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TLDR; avoid Seagate 12tb and 14tb. 16tb drives so far look very good (X18). No published data yet on X24.
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This price is what the 14TB drives have been selling for recently, and this is a slightly newer model.
Since all drives fail I use the cost savings to buy additional ones for backups. I find the benefit of mirroring everything with used/certified drives is the most cost effective. All the warranty does is replace the drive, not the data, and in my experience the warranty replacement is a recertified drive, just like this one.
These are also enterprise grade drives, and while used have been re-certified by the manufacturer. I find the used drives to be better than the consumer grade drives which I have had to RMA for warranty. My thinking is you are getting a drive at a deep discount with a lower risk of failure than just buying a used drive. Also as long as you mirror your data you can replace a failed drive quickly while you wait for a free replacement should it fail in two years.
Worth the risk to me, but everyone is different, but this is my logic for buying them when I used to think you were out of your mind to buy a used hard drive. Sometimes you have to reevaulate things to find out a better way.
The employee on chat told be that they have reached a certain limit and cannot sell products tax free anymore.
I know it sucks man. I bought 1x 16TB and tax was charged. I then bought 2x 18TB ($200 version WD MFR Recert drives) and that was $27 tax.
Did they say the tax is a yearly limit or it's a company wide limit after x amount of product sold?
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My question for this would be - x24 drives are really new. How is it possible that x24 designated models are already being refurbed?
I can't verify, but I've heard these come from the same stock that Seagate sends out to replace drives that are RMA'd.
https://www.backblaze.c
TLDR; avoid Seagate 12tb and 14tb. 16tb drives so far look very good (X18). No published data yet on X24.
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This price is what the 14TB drives have been selling for recently, and this is a slightly newer model.
Since all drives fail I use the cost savings to buy additional ones for backups. I find the benefit of mirroring everything with used/certified drives is the most cost effective. All the warranty does is replace the drive, not the data, and in my experience the warranty replacement is a recertified drive, just like this one.
These are also enterprise grade drives, and while used have been re-certified by the manufacturer. I find the used drives to be better than the consumer grade drives which I have had to RMA for warranty. My thinking is you are getting a drive at a deep discount with a lower risk of failure than just buying a used drive. Also as long as you mirror your data you can replace a failed drive quickly while you wait for a free replacement should it fail in two years.
Worth the risk to me, but everyone is different, but this is my logic for buying them when I used to think you were out of your mind to buy a used hard drive. Sometimes you have to reevaulate things to find out a better way.
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There is no such thing as a 5k marathon - they are two different distances.
To make my post have some value to this thread, ordered a 12TB from SPD recently (Slickdeals post), first one went bad within the first 24 hours of testing (click of death on power up, wouldn't even show up as a drive). They paid for return shipping and refunded me immediately when it arrived back to them. They don't offer cross-shipping so I ordered a second drive from them while the first drive was still en-route back and that one has been fine, ran a full surface write/read test and it passed clean. Both drives were packed very well and even included a 3.3v sata power adapter in case you are trying to use the drive in an older config where pin 3 is powered. Highly recommend them.
Does anyone have a reason not to do this other than "Seagate SUCKS, man!"?
Does anyone have a reason not to do this other than "Seagate SUCKS, man!"?
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Does anyone have a reason not to do this other than "Seagate SUCKS, man!"?
At the end of the day ALL spinning drives will fail at some point and you should have appropriate back ups in place for when that eventuality happens.