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expiredkakektypo posted Jul 01, 2024 06:16 AM

12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 SATA 6GB 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise HDD (Refurbished)

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goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has 12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 SATA 6GB 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise HDD (Refurbished: Excellent) on sale for $74.99. Shipping is free.

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About Refurbished Condition:
  • 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 diagnose software test with ZERO Bad sectors!
  • Since this is a heavy duty enterprise HDD with 2.5M-hour MTBF rating.
Notable Specs:
  • Ultrastar He12 Series
  • 3.5" Form Factor
  • SATA 6Gb/s Interface
  • 256MB Cache
  • 7.2K RPM Spindle Speed

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Written by StrawMan86 | Staff
  • About this deal:
  • Warranty:
    • Includes 5-Year Warranty from Seller + 1-Year Allstate Warranty
  • About this store:
    • 30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.
    • Seller goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail has a 99.8 Positive feedback rating w/ over 499,000 items sold

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Update: This popular deal is still available.

goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has 12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 SATA 6GB 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise HDD (Refurbished: Excellent) on sale for $74.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks community member kakektypo for sharing this deal.

About Refurbished Condition:
  • 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 diagnose software test with ZERO Bad sectors!
  • Since this is a heavy duty enterprise HDD with 2.5M-hour MTBF rating.
Notable Specs:
  • Ultrastar He12 Series
  • 3.5" Form Factor
  • SATA 6Gb/s Interface
  • 256MB Cache
  • 7.2K RPM Spindle Speed

Editor's Notes

Written by StrawMan86 | Staff
  • About this deal:
  • Warranty:
    • Includes 5-Year Warranty from Seller + 1-Year Allstate Warranty
  • About this store:
    • 30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.
    • Seller goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail has a 99.8 Positive feedback rating w/ over 499,000 items sold

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CoolMoney1870
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Good deal - Just keep in mind folks whether you buy new or used HDD it is always a good idea to protect your data by having multiple copies. Me being a computer nerd do all 3 of these below, but you should do at least one (preferably 1 local and 1 remote).

Locally you can do disk to disk backup
Locally you can use RAID and multiple drives
Remotely you can sync your data to a cloud provider like MS OneDrive, Amazon AWS, Google Drive, DropBOx, ect....
RonSwansun
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I am sure they would accept another $5 bucks from you if you got it 5 bucks cheaper
shigshag
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🎶 How low can you go, twelve terabyte limbo 🎶

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julesverne69Jul 01, 2024 03:20 PM
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Sorry in advance if this is a silly question. I'm a tech novice for the most part. Would people feel that it is OK to buy these used drives? For old movies and pictures. I know it's good to have backups. My goal is to condense all my old 1 and 2 tb drives into one big mega drive. Mostly to sift out duplicates and organize into a more accessible environment. Thank you in advance.
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Greygooser
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Jul 01, 2024 03:23 PM
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would have loved if the 10% refurb coupon came back as well, but can't resist this price. need 8 to make 48tb nas and 48tb usb backup so i had to make 2 separate orders. with capital one at 4% and paypal at 2% cashback should help. (assuming they stack) i know its usually discussed on these threads, but is there some sort of pin i need to remove on these to properly power them on a NAS? TIA
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aleki
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Quote from julesverne69 :
Sorry in advance if this is a silly question. I'm a tech novice for the most part. Would people feel that it is OK to buy these used drives? For old movies and pictures. I know it's good to have backups. My goal is to condense all my old 1 and 2 tb drives into one big mega drive. Mostly to sift out duplicates and organize into a more accessible environment. Thank you in advance.
Buy two and run them as mirror(storage spaces in windows). You'll want redundancy in case one of the drives crash.
Jul 01, 2024 03:30 PM
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PogiBoyJul 01, 2024 03:30 PM
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Quote from Greygooser :
would have loved if the 10% refurb coupon came back as well, but can't resist this price. need 8 to make 48tb nas and 48tb usb backup so i had to make 2 separate orders. with capital one at 4% and paypal at 2% cashback should help. (assuming they stack) i know its usually discussed on these threads, but is there some sort of pin i need to remove on these to properly power them on a NAS? TIA
I installed these on NAS Synology ds224+, they working great and no special adjustment needed. Plug and play.
Jul 01, 2024 05:22 PM
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warlock110Jul 01, 2024 05:22 PM
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Quote from PogiBoy :
I installed these on NAS Synology ds224+, they working great and no special adjustment needed. Plug and play.
Same with my Qnap 653D and Synology 1817+.

Have not test them in regular motherboard.
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theshopper2022Jul 01, 2024 06:29 PM
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Quote from utgotye :
Preventative wear leveling. Unavoidable fact on many enterprise drives.
When I got my first drive, it was super loud clicking, thought it was gonna die, it is quiet now after it had time to settle in.

Jul 01, 2024 06:48 PM
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icedhotJul 01, 2024 06:48 PM
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Quote from CoolMoney1870 :
Good deal - Just keep in mind folks whether you buy new or used HDD it is always a good idea to protect your data by having multiple copies. Me being a computer nerd do all 3 of these below, but you should do at least one (preferably 1 local and 1 remote).

Locally you can do disk to disk backup
Locally you can use RAID and multiple drives
Remotely you can sync your data to a cloud provider like MS OneDrive, Amazon AWS, Google Drive, DropBOx, ect....
What software would you recommend for mirror copy (schedule) on windows desktop?

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Jul 01, 2024 07:01 PM
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svmtrackingJul 01, 2024 07:01 PM
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Quote from PogiBoy :
I installed these on NAS Synology ds224+, they working great and no special adjustment needed. Plug and play.
good to know. plan to get a few to replace the 3tbs in my ds418play
Jul 01, 2024 07:37 PM
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laleyanJul 01, 2024 07:37 PM
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Quote from vivek :
I bought this at 82.99 and they sent me a WD ultrastar instead of HGST.
Go hard drive support said WD is just retail version of HGST which sells to Data Centers.
I have this very same model. It is tuned for performance and it is lauder when the heads are moving (during use) compared to a desktop HDD. They are very quiet on idle.
Jul 01, 2024 08:09 PM
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KrackZeroJul 01, 2024 08:09 PM
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i jus bought this 2 days ago for 85 T.T
Jul 01, 2024 08:11 PM
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milkman2Jul 01, 2024 08:11 PM
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I had a coupon for an extra 10% off. It works up to ~$250, so I was able to apply to discount to 3 drives. YMMV, it was on the page so it may be targeted.
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CoolMoney1870Jul 01, 2024 08:21 PM
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Quote from icedhot :
What software would you recommend for mirror copy (schedule) on windows desktop?
The term "mirror" means RAID1 - which many operating systems can do themselves - and it keeps both disks fully synchronized at all times.
https://www.windowscentral.com/so...windows-11

The term schedule implies some sort of copy operation that many apps can do. I like FreeFileSync, but so can other full featured apps like Acronis and Macrium
https://www.pcworld.com/article/4...vices.html
Last edited by CoolMoney1870 July 1, 2024 at 01:36 PM.
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tjjenkinJul 01, 2024 08:37 PM
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What happened to hard drive prices? $75 for 12 TB. Wow.
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DerProfiJul 01, 2024 09:28 PM
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Quote from 404_Deal_Not_Found :
We use to call these death stars years ago in the data center.
I remember an IBM "Deskstar" desktop drive nicknamed Deathstar but that was like 20 years ago..... I never had Ultrastars fail at rates higher than anything else.

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