goharddrivee via eBay has
14TB WD Ultrastar DC HC530 SATA 6G 3.5" 7200 RPM Enterprise Hard Drive (WUH721414ALE600, Refurbished) on sale for
$112.
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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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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.c
SMART data definitely had been wiped by sellers/refurbishers.
$112 / 14TB = $8/TB
$79.99 / 12TB = $6.66/TB
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$112 / 14TB = $8/TB
$79.99 / 12TB = $6.66/TB
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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.
5 year warranty. seller is in Los Angeles area.
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5 year warranty. seller is in Los Angeles area.
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