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12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 SATA 6GB 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise HDD (HUH721212ALE601, Refurbished: Excellent) on sale for
$74.
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About Refurbished Condition:
- These HDD is used by Datacenter Servers for about 5 years. 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:
- Previously known as Ultrastar He12 Series
- 3.5" Form Factor
- SATA 6Gb/s Interface
- 256MB Cache
- 7.2K RPM Spindle Speed
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You are simply buying used drives....... which is fine, I don't trust anyone to open a helium drive anyway.
WD usually resells most of its recertified enterprise drives through resellers who then provide the warranty (and charge significantly more than $75). At least this seller offers a 5 year warranty which they have a good reputation for honoring.
I'm considering purchasing 3-5 of them myself for use in building a new NAS/Proxmox box.
WD put out a cool blog post a couple years ago on the development of helium filled drives. They've been in development for 30+ years.
https://blog.westerndig
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This is to be expected from a refurbished hard drive.
Once they arrived, I formatted the drives (it took 36 hours per drive) and then pounded on the drives for two days. Both drives survived and I'm using them as not my primary or secondary, but my third level backup drive. It has been two months and other than being loud, the drives are working fine.
You should know you can buy refurbished drives from Western Digital. I would have more faith in Western Digital refurbishing a drive than a seller on eBay.
With all this said, I'd consider buying these drives again but not in a mission-critical situation.
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This is to be expected from a refurbished hard drive.
Once they arrived, I formatted the drives (it took 36 hours per drive) and then pounded on the drives for two days. Both drives survived and I'm using them as not my primary or secondary, but my third level backup drive. It has been two months and other than being loud, the drives are working fine.
You should know you can buy refurbished drives from Western Digital. I would have more faith in Western Digital refurbishing a drive than a seller on eBay.
With all this said, I'd consider buying these drives again but not in a mission-critical situation.
You are simply buying used drives....... which is fine, I don't trust anyone to open a helium drive anyway.
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This is to be expected from a refurbished hard drive.
Once they arrived, I formatted the drives (it took 36 hours per drive) and then pounded on the drives for two days. Both drives survived and I'm using them as not my primary or secondary, but my third level backup drive. It has been two months and other than being loud, the drives are working fine.
You should know you can buy refurbished drives from Western Digital. I would have more faith in Western Digital refurbishing a drive than a seller on eBay.
With all this said, I'd consider buying these drives again but not in a mission-critical situation.
4 years is nothing for enterprise drives, especially since they probably spent most of that 4 years continuously powered on (power cycles cause more damage to spinning rust than anything else). The manufacturer MTBF on these drives is 2.5 million hours, or approximately 385 years. I promise you, even after having been used for 4 years, they are probably more reliable than any brand new consumer drive you can buy today.
WD usually resells most of its recertified enterprise drives through resellers who then provide the warranty (and charge significantly more than $75). At least this seller offers a 5 year warranty which they have a good reputation for honoring.
I'm considering purchasing 3-5 of them myself for use in building a new NAS/Proxmox box.
WD usually resells most of its recertified enterprise drives through resellers who then provide the warranty (and charge significantly more than $75). At least this seller offers a 5 year warranty which they have a good reputation for honoring.
I'm considering purchasing 3-5 of them myself for use in building a new NAS/Proxmox box.
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Aren't all drives made in the last few years above a certain capacity helium filled?
Aren't all drives made in the last few years above a certain capacity helium filled?
And they've been around long enough that you should buy with confidence. Besides that, and as someone else mentioned, helium is essentially your only option above 12-14TB or so.
FWIW, there are a few anecdotal reports of helium drives where even after a leak, they still managed to soldier on long enough to get the data off even though they were essentially running on air.
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I mean, we got 80GB, 500GB and 1TB lying around that we haven't accessed in years b/c we simply transferred it to another larger or fast drive later on,
Drives these size are usually for video storage and when we go from 1080p, to 4k and 8k, we'll stop watching on the older format and replace it with a higher resolution on a bigger capacity drive, right?
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