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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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I have 11 of this exact model. 14TB HC530 drives from GoHardDrive. Ordered 2 more to add to the array.
In my first batch I had 1 bad drive. Returned, no issues.
Most of mine had 40 months of use. Have been running just over a year since with no issues.
SHR2 running Xpenology (Synology on non-synology hardware). I also have 12x12 TB HC520 drives in a Synology. Half of those are refurbs and the other half were new.
Good drives. Well packaged. For me worth the transition between failed disk and replacement. I run SHR2 so I have 2 drives in redundancy and 1 hot spare.
I work with Data center storage reqularly so I knew what I was getting.
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.
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.
Doesn't really matter when the reseller is offering 5 years warranty.
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.
If you're going to use them. Buy it in pairs. One for daily use. The other for cold storage backup. A 5 years warranty will protect your investment.
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.
If you're doing plex get a nas or build a computer that can expand. There are plex servers that's ard in the petabytes.
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.
This is a drastic oversimplification. There is more that goes into setting a warranty than the point at which they expect to drive to fail. And the day the warranty expires doesn't mean " The drive will fail at any time", any more than buying the drive and after one year expecting it to fail at any time. And it's also ridiculous to go to the other extreme, assuming that your drive is going to last as long as the average life expectancy. It's a gamble, and of course the 5-year warranty helps mitigate the risk of that gamble. We see the same arguments in every single one of these threads, and they never resolve anything. Everybody has to do their research and make their own decision. In my case, it is worth it to use some of these Enterprise drives knowing that there is a higher risk of failure, but also feeling comfortable that I have multiple backups. If that's not your use case, then buy the new drive and enjoy.
This is a drastic oversimplification. There is more that goes into setting a warranty than the point at which they expect to drive to fail. And the day the warranty expires doesn't mean " The drive will fail at any time", any more than buying the drive and after one year expecting it to fail at any time. And it's also ridiculous to go to the other extreme, assuming that your drive is going to last as long as the average life expectancy. It's a gamble, and of course the 5-year warranty helps mitigate the risk of that gamble. We see the same arguments in every single one of these threads, and they never resolve anything. Everybody has to do their research and make their own decision. In my case, it is worth it to use some of these Enterprise drives knowing that there is a higher risk of failure, but also feeling comfortable that I have multiple backups. If that's not your use case, then buy the new drive and enjoy.
I disagree it was not an oversimplification. The original comment he was responding to was a drastic oversimplification. Saying that warranty is ONLY based on the expected lifecycle of a product is asinine. It definitely has a lot to do with how long you want tech support staff to be trained on an old product with decreasing number of users still using it 5 years out. How long you want to store replacement parts. As well as the litany of things that person stated.
I disagree it was not an oversimplification. The original comment he was responding to was a drastic oversimplification. Saying that warranty is ONLY based on the expected lifecycle of a product is asinine. It definitely has a lot to do with how long you want tech support staff to be trained on an old product with decreasing number of users still using it 5 years out. How long you want to store replacement parts. As well as the litany of things that person stated.
I'm confused. I was responding to the comment by llamableat, and he didn't quote anyone so I'm not sure he was responding to, if anyone in particular. I agree with exactly what you said - "Saying the warranty is ONLY based on the expected lifecycle of a product is asinine." Not sure things got crossed, but I agree with your point which is why I was saying that llamableat's post was an oversimplification.
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.
Ima noob. So do you recommend buying one new and one refurb as backup?
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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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In my first batch I had 1 bad drive. Returned, no issues.
Most of mine had 40 months of use. Have been running just over a year since with no issues.
SHR2 running Xpenology (Synology on non-synology hardware). I also have 12x12 TB HC520 drives in a Synology. Half of those are refurbs and the other half were new.
Good drives. Well packaged. For me worth the transition between failed disk and replacement. I run SHR2 so I have 2 drives in redundancy and 1 hot spare.
I work with Data center storage reqularly so I knew what I was getting.
$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.
The 12tb and 10tb are more economical.
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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.
This is a drastic oversimplification. There is more that goes into setting a warranty than the point at which they expect to drive to fail. And the day the warranty expires doesn't mean " The drive will fail at any time", any more than buying the drive and after one year expecting it to fail at any time. And it's also ridiculous to go to the other extreme, assuming that your drive is going to last as long as the average life expectancy. It's a gamble, and of course the 5-year warranty helps mitigate the risk of that gamble. We see the same arguments in every single one of these threads, and they never resolve anything. Everybody has to do their research and make their own decision. In my case, it is worth it to use some of these Enterprise drives knowing that there is a higher risk of failure, but also feeling comfortable that I have multiple backups. If that's not your use case, then buy the new drive and enjoy.
I disagree it was not an oversimplification. The original comment he was responding to was a drastic oversimplification. Saying that warranty is ONLY based on the expected lifecycle of a product is asinine. It definitely has a lot to do with how long you want tech support staff to be trained on an old product with decreasing number of users still using it 5 years out. How long you want to store replacement parts. As well as the litany of things that person stated.
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.
Ima noob. So do you recommend buying one new and one refurb as backup?
Use these cheap drives as scratch space.
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Why is the above 10 TB drives for 70$ not a deal? Am I missing something?