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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:
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
- "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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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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Because you're misinformed. The likelihood of failure goes up slightly, but the odds of any one drive failing is very low year to year even up to the 10 year mark. With redundancy and a decent warranty it's a safe bet.
No offense, but your comment means that you don't understand what mtbf actually means. Study up!
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.
You're also making assumptions about how manufacturers determine warranty length. There are many considerations unrelated to life expectancy. The also have to consider support costs, product availability, tier differentiation, competition, and more. There are many very reliable products that have short warranties, despite the fact they can be expected to last many years/decades.
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Take a look at the Normalized, Worst, and Threshold columns. The Normalized value is the current state, which may vary. The Worst value is the worst it has ever been. The Threshold is the point at which the drive will consider itself as failing. When the Normalized and/or Worst value passes the Threshold (usually going down), it will be considered either "failing" or "failed in the past." If you look in the Assessment column, you will see that all the attributes are still considered "OK."
Your drive still considers itself to be in acceptable condition. Looking at the raw values, the only one that stands out to me is the Read Error Rate. A value other than 0 is unusual for these drives (but not some other brands, like Seagate). As you can see, the Normalized value has dropped to 86 but is still well above the Threshold of 16. I'd keep an eye on that one but the rest seem fine. BTW, attribute 22 is Helium Level.
Also, I got $55 off of 5 using code YUSPGIJ58JH8BD7M. Not sure how or why, but it worked. Dropped $/TB to $7.85
Im sure there are some cheaper, but electric cost and heat are something most don't consider when buying smaller drives.
Also, I got $55 off of 5 using code YUSPGIJ58JH8BD7M. Not sure how or why, but it worked. Dropped $/TB to $7.85
Im sure there are some cheaper, but electric cost and heat are something most don't consider when buying smaller drives.
Look forward to your review. Need drives for a Plex NAS I am getting next month and am interested in the sound of the drives. Hear these are noisy and need quiet drives as the NAS will be next to my TV.
Assume this is Seagate. There is a Seagate calculator that you put pre fail data in it to see the actual count. It's not human readable except all smart are showing ok, so it's not likely an issue.
$112 / 14TB = $8/TB
$79.99 / 12TB = $6.66/TB
Thanks! I saw the 12TB and had an extra coupon code that got it down to 80 per drive. I can sacrifice 2TB for that savings since I picked up 2.
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Packaged well in shock absorbent packaging. Can't beat the 5 year warranty. Their site says you pay for return shipping but sounds like everyone is getting prepaid labels to send back for RMA.
For all those worried about them failing, these used drives are bought to be used and discarded because you have redundancy built in. The data is important and should be backed up in a 3-2-1 fashion anyway so who cares if they die within 5 years? GHD will send you a new one and if it makes it past 5 its already time to upgrade anyways.
Who cares if one fails? Just pop in a spare and your RAID array will rebuild as you have no interruption in operation...
The only negative is if your data store is hard to get to physically, offsite, etc. then yea buy new. These aren't meant to be bought as a single and used as a primary data store in JBOD setting. This is a pretty great deal otherwise.