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14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise HDD (Refurbished)

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goharddrivee via eBay has 14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise Hard Drive (WUH721414ALE600, Refurbished) on sale for $112. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member scpe for sharing this deal.

Product Features:
  • World's first helium-filled hard drive
  • Industry-first 14TB capacity in a standard
  • 3.5-inch form factor
  • HelioSeal process and 7StacTM design are keys to hermetically sealed drive with higher capacity
  • TCOptimized design delivers on key elements of data center TCO: capacity, power, cooling and storage density
  • SAS & SATA 6Gb/s models for configuration flexibility
  • Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) options for HDD-level data security
Item Description from the Seller:
  • "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 disgnose 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"

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/155672990441 goharddrivee via eBay has 14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise Hard Drive (WUH721414ALE604, Refurbished) on sale for $112. Shipping is free.
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I feel like every time these goharddrive/serverpartdeals deals get posted these need to be mentioned since there will always be people arguing about buying used hard drives, 5 years of usage, "SMART data seems sus", etc...

These are datacenter drives, they generally last longer than 5-6years (especially with home office and selfhosted server usage where usage is way way less). They just get replaced every 5-6 years because that's usually when they start upgrading systems AND the original manufacturers warranty runs out and datacenters don't like dealing with non-warrantied drives.
People generally buys 2 or more of these drives for redundancy to put in their own server or NAS at home. If you don't know what that means and just want to store your family photos or whatever, just buy new.
IMO brands don't really matter as much as it did 10-20 years ago but https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ba...-for-2023/
SMART data definitely had been wiped by sellers/refurbishers.
The 12TB drive - when on sale - was a much better price per TB. if 12TB is sufficient storage for you, I'd wait for the $79.99 sale to come back, which happens more frequently.

$112 / 14TB = $8/TB
$79.99 / 12TB = $6.66/TB
I think the 5 year warranty is well worth the extra $7, they have replaced 2 of my failed drives, no questions asked after 3 years.

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nido
05-02-2024 at 03:26 PM.
05-02-2024 at 03:26 PM.
Quote from TalentedHaddock2057 :
There is a cheaper one if you don't mind the 90 days warranty $72.99 each
https://www.ebay.com/itm/296358906778
It says CRC errors, does it matter?
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namlook
05-02-2024 at 03:29 PM.
05-02-2024 at 03:29 PM.
Quote from jcab2002 :
Just an FYI, I have two of these WD's and had to use kapton tape on each of them. Didn't have to for the Seagates that I have.
Another FYI is if you use these in a DAS or NAS you don't need the tape or adapter.
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Wagg
05-02-2024 at 03:58 PM.
05-02-2024 at 03:58 PM.
Well, I have an UnRaid box running 4 14TB WD White label drives that are around 2-3yrs old. I'm tempted to pick up 2 more of these.
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Gb1908
05-02-2024 at 04:06 PM.
05-02-2024 at 04:06 PM.
Quote from TalentedHaddock2057 :
There is a cheaper one if you don't mind the 90 days warranty $72.99 each
https://www.ebay.com/itm/296358906778

... if you dont mind usage for only 3-5 more years before deep 6 potential, click of death
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bobssc
05-02-2024 at 05:28 PM.
05-02-2024 at 05:28 PM.
Quote from TalentedHaddock2057 :
There is a cheaper one if you don't mind the 90 days warranty $72.99 each
https://www.ebay.com/itm/296358906778

This link is for a 12tb drive, just FYI for anyone checking it out.
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angelmaldito23
05-02-2024 at 05:37 PM.
05-02-2024 at 05:37 PM.
Quote from TalentedHaddock2057 :
There is a cheaper one if you don't mind the 90 days warranty $72.99 each
https://www.ebay.com/itm/296358906778

90 days warranty on a hard drive that was used.. Nonstop it's pretty bad
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ansonvs
05-02-2024 at 05:44 PM.
05-02-2024 at 05:44 PM.
Quote from alen129 :
The 12TB drive - when on sale - was a much better price per TB. if 12TB is sufficient storage for you, I'd wait for the $79.99 sale to come back, which happens more frequently.

$112 / 14TB = $8/TB
$79.99 / 12TB = $6.66/TB

Too much non-use storage is also a waste of money if he cannot reach 11TB over 14TB before HDD dies.
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05-02-2024 at 06:17 PM.

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05-02-2024 at 06:17 PM.
Quote from qhoa1385 :
I feel like every time these goharddrive/serverpartdeals deals get posted these need to be mentioned since there will always be people arguing about buying used hard drives, 5 years of usage, "SMART data seems sus", etc...
  1. These are datacenter drives, they generally last longer than 5-6years (especially with home office and selfhosted server usage where usage is way way less). They just get replaced every 5-6 years because that's usually when they start upgrading systems AND the original manufacturers warranty runs out and datacenters don't like dealing with non-warrantied drives.
  2. People generally buys 2 or more of these drives for redundancy to put in their own server or NAS at home. If you don't know what that means and just want to store your family photos or whatever, just buy new.
  3. IMO brands don't really matter as much as it did 10-20 years ago but https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ba...-for-2023/ [backblaze.com]
  4. SMART data definitely had been wiped by sellers/refurbishers.
Weighing in with my experience so far:

I bought 2x 10tb drives like this (HGST drives). One is dead already, less than a year later. I was using it as my OS drive / Scratch space (I bought 2x brand new 14tb Seagate Ironwolf drives at a modest discount, but still mostly new prices - ouch - to hold my very important data).

But I use them for redundancy, like I said. I lost my warranty card for it, so I'm probably SOL, but at least I didn't lose any data. I bought another drive. BUT - the thing is - it did come with a 5 year warranty. And there is a chance when you RMA a bad drive, you get a brand new replacement, which would be sweet.

I think these can be a good value, for sure, considering the cost of brand new drives, which are like 3x this cost. You're asking to lose your data if you buy just one of these and put anything important on it. Really, you're asking to lose your data if you buy a brand new drive and don't mirror it, and put anything important on it. I've had that happen plenty of times over the years - never again.

While you're at it - get some automation to back stuff up to the cloud, too. More than one provider as well - since through no fault of your own, your account can be terminated and you lose your whole digital life. I've got stuff in a mix of Google Drive, my local NAS device and a non-public AWS S3 bucket.
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michael452
05-02-2024 at 08:00 PM.
05-02-2024 at 08:00 PM.
Running on 5 of these on RAID 6 from Newegg $99 sale by same seller.
5 year warranty. seller is in Los Angeles area.
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zephyrprime
05-02-2024 at 09:35 PM.
05-02-2024 at 09:35 PM.
If you want a used datacenter drive, you can buy those all day every day on ebay for similar prices. I wouldn't use one for anything other than just backup though.
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MyndFX
05-02-2024 at 09:58 PM.
05-02-2024 at 09:58 PM.
Quote from awdrifter :
Yep. These drives are probably more than half way through their typical life.

They'll be obsolete by the time they finish their life.
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MWink
05-02-2024 at 10:01 PM.
05-02-2024 at 10:01 PM.
Quote from linh811 :
2.5M MTBF rating. Do the math, these are no where close....
That's not how MTBF is meant to be used. It's almost useless to people with a small number of drives.

Quote from nido :
It says CRC errors, does it matter?
Probably not. UDMA CRC errors are usually the result of a bad SATA cable or mixing a drive and controller that don't play well together. They're generally not a sign the drive itself is failing.
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05-03-2024 at 12:10 AM.
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Quote from michael452 :
Running on 5 of these on RAID 6 from Newegg $99 sale by same seller.
5 year warranty. seller is in Los Angeles area.
Link to that item at Newegg? Even if it's out of stock now it might come back. I searched but don't see it.
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05-03-2024 at 06:40 AM.
05-03-2024 at 06:40 AM.
I've jumped on similar deals over the past few months. So far, so good. Will do it again when I need to.
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