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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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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
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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....
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I'm skeptical of the DoD wipe claim as well. It would probably be overkill anyway. A Secure Erase (which is only one pass) should be enough. Either way, actions that solely involve writes aren't necessarily going to pick up all issues. You need a full read scan somewhere in the mix.
ok checked, it does have instant secure erase.
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Probably closer to 25 years. It's been a little over a decade since Seagate's really bad run.
I'm skeptical of the DoD wipe claim as well. It would probably be overkill anyway. A Secure Erase (which is only one pass) should be enough. Either way, actions that solely involve writes aren't necessarily going to pick up all issues. You need a full read scan somewhere in the mix.
I do agree that most refurbished equipment isn't tested well. I've seen such machines arrive with glaring issues, like bad touchpads or USB ports.
Actually, you are right. A drive with 4K logical sectors could support up to 16TiB with a MBR partition table. The thing is, almost nobody runs drives that way. Most modern drives run 512e Advanced Format, which uses 4K physical sectors and 512 byte logical sectors. Drives like the one in this deal can be converted to 4Kn mode but it tends to have some undesirable side-effects. Trust me, I actually toyed with it.
ok checked, it does have instant secure erase.
https://documents.weste
It's not impossible they are wiping some drives the long way, but who knows.
Alternatively there are keepalive HD utilities out there, write to txt file every x seconds etc
Alternatively there are keepalive HD utilities out there, write to txt file every x seconds etc
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ok checked, it does have instant secure erase.
https://documents.weste
CMR.
Yes, some drives support ISE but I'm not sure about this particular model. The documentation is confusing. According to the specs, the DC HC520 models ending in "1" are listed as "Self-encrypting Drive (SAS)." It doesn't say if it also applies to the SATA version. Also, I'm not sure if ISE would qualify as a DoD wipe.
Also, because of the absolutely terrible response from IBM at the time to concerns about the 75GXP, consumers and technology writers started to wonder about the 60GXP and 120GXP models, especially after IBM released the relatively low duty ratings for the 120gxp and other drives on the heels of the class-action lawsuit.
It's pretty much a textbook example of how NOT to respond to criticism/concern about a product.
There were a lot of other things going on at IBM at the time, but the drama around their DeskStars certainly didn't help the brand and they sold out in 2003.
Extremetech had a writeup a few years ago because of some recent drama in the HDD space which reminded them of IBM.
I need some consumer grade quiet drives
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