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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.
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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"
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.
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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Sad to see different folks making the same mistake over and over: drive capacity is not the driving value of cost on used drives. Every time the comparison is made between new drive capacity cost and used drive capacity cost, there are a couple of fan boys that will say anything to wave away the most inconvenient truth: reliability is an assumed given for new drives and absolutely cannot be ignored when compared to used drives that are OUT of OEM warranty.
OEMs know much better than backblaze or your fav reviewer what their drive lifetimes are and that is the main consideration when they set their warranty term. Think about that for a second - if you are buying a used drive older than the OEM warranty, you should expect that drive to fail at any time because that's what the OEM expects.
Once that's no longer a fact of contention, you can see how useless the "low cost per TB" of used drives really is as a metric for value.
There certainly is valid value in these drives, it's just sometimes I feel like they charging you half the cost of a new one is just too much. With the warranty that they give, it will be great if it was around 25% of a new cost...
I'm build a new NAS. Thinking about picking up a few of these over new. Any reason not to if I'm running in RAID? All important data is also stored off-site, so data loss would suck but nothing too important would be lost.
I'm build a new NAS. Thinking about picking up a few of these over new. Any reason not to if I'm running in RAID? All important data is also stored off-site, so data loss would suck but nothing too important would be lost.
Perfect use case. I would use these in a lab environment or backups of non critical data. Anyone who says these are as reliable and as safe as a brand new drive are smoking Hopium. You may get years of use out of one of these drives, or it may die in a day or two. Roll the dice but the data you risk is yours to gamble with.
Perfect use case. I would use these in a lab environment or backups of non critical data. Anyone who says these are as reliable and as safe as a brand new drive are smoking Hopium. You may get years of use out of one of these drives, or it may die in a day or two. Roll the dice but the data you risk is yours to gamble with.
I said, in a lab environment is a good use and when working with non critical data... Are you trying to say you would risk you critical data on some refurbished hard drives. Good for you then if so, go with God lol.
I'm build a new NAS. Thinking about picking up a few of these over new. Any reason not to if I'm running in RAID? All important data is also stored off-site, so data loss would suck but nothing too important would be lost.
Absolutely no reason not to... These are perfect for raid setup. I would take these over new consumer drives
Perfect use case. I would use these in a lab environment or backups of non critical data. Anyone who says these are as reliable and as safe as a brand new drive are smoking Hopium. You may get years of use out of one of these drives, or it may die in a day or two. Roll the dice but the data you risk is yours to gamble with.
You missed the point of raid.... These are perfectly fine to be used in production environment even better since they are likely from different batches
I said, in a lab environment is a good use and when working with non critical data... Are you trying to say you would risk you critical data on some refurbished hard drives. Good for you then if so, go with God lol.
If one of two drives dying causes you to lose critical data, you're doing RAID wrong.
If one of two drives dying causes you to lose critical data, you're doing RAID wrong.
As someone who has spent over 10 years working with servers and professional data centers, I find that amusing. It's your data, your money, your raid, godspeed to you, and your refurbished hdd endeavors.
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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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OEMs know much better than backblaze or your fav reviewer what their drive lifetimes are and that is the main consideration when they set their warranty term. Think about that for a second - if you are buying a used drive older than the OEM warranty, you should expect that drive to fail at any time because that's what the OEM expects.
Once that's no longer a fact of contention, you can see how useless the "low cost per TB" of used drives really is as a metric for value.
There certainly is valid value in these drives, it's just sometimes I feel like they charging you half the cost of a new one is just too much. With the warranty that they give, it will be great if it was around 25% of a new cost...
Perfect use case. I would use these in a lab environment or backups of non critical data. Anyone who says these are as reliable and as safe as a brand new drive are smoking Hopium. You may get years of use out of one of these drives, or it may die in a day or two. Roll the dice but the data you risk is yours to gamble with.
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What? At least try and make sense.
I said, in a lab environment is a good use and when working with non critical data... Are you trying to say you would risk you critical data on some refurbished hard drives. Good for you then if so, go with God lol.
I said, in a lab environment is a good use and when working with non critical data... Are you trying to say you would risk you critical data on some refurbished hard drives. Good for you then if so, go with God lol.
If one of two drives dying causes you to lose critical data, you're doing RAID wrong.
As someone who has spent over 10 years working with servers and professional data centers, I find that amusing. It's your data, your money, your raid, godspeed to you, and your refurbished hdd endeavors.
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