goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has
12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 SATA 6GB 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise HDD (HUH721212ALE601, Refurbished: Excellent) on sale for
$74.
Shipping is free.
Thanks Community Member
BF_ for finding this deal.
Seller Note 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:
- Previously known as Ultrastar He12 Series
- 3.5" Form Factor
- SATA 6Gb/s Interface
- 256MB Cache
- 7.2K RPM Spindle Speed
Leave a Comment
Top Comments
Goharddrive is a solid company, which ships drives quickly, and has a hassle free return policy. However, their quality control is poor in my personal experience. You may end up having to play the lottery before getting what you need.
Here's what I have purchased from them in the last year –
2024-08-26 HUH721212ALE601 (12 TB) Returned
2024-07-28 HUH721212ALE601 (12 TB) Kept
2024-07-15 HUH721212ALE601 (12 TB) Kept
2024-07-11 HUH721010ALE604 (10 TB) Returned
2023-08-14 HUH721010ALE601 (10 TB) Returned
Each of these drives were 3-4 years old (I appreciate that Goharddrive does not wipe SMART data unlike some resellers). Reason for the returns were each of the drives had "unhealthy drive" status in unraid, and loads of SMART errors.
Defect rate for the 12 TB drives was 33% (same drive that is being sold in the ad). Overall defect rate for all of my Goharddrive purchases was 60%. Too small of a sample size to draw any broad conclusions, but something to keep in mind if you have time sensitive project, and are not risk tolerant. (I ended up buying the same hard drive, albeit recertified from serverpartdeals, a reputable company, for $20 more. No errors whatsoever).
I have a good opinion of HGST drives, based on HD reliability stats published by Backblaze, and personal anecdotal experience. In fact, I have a used HUS724020ALE641 4TB drive which I bought from go hard drive 6 years ago, and it's still going strong.
Bottom line, this a good drive, a good deal, sold by a good company, but you may have to play the used hard drive lottery and do some returns. If you are looking for something more certain and less risky, buy a manufacturer recertified drive (not seller refurbished). Goharddrive and serverpartdeals sell them.
121 Comments
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank lastwraith
Much easier to build fault-tolerant arrays with drives like this. Then brag to your friends.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank lastwraith
I cut them but I've used painter's tape in a pinch and it lasted years, even taking the drive out a few times. Really not a big deal.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Our community has rated this post as helpful. If you agree, why not thank lastwraith
Oh wait. Are these the dreaded Deathstars? Nevermind Thailand can have them.
Otherwise you are really limiting what you can buy.. Besides, most Synology units don't care about PWDIS anyway. No clue which specific one you have, but people in the past have routinely reported no issues even with drives supporting 3.3v power disable.
I would go with a fault-tolerant array of these drives. Having all the same model drive is rarely a good idea, as you are more susceptible to similar failures.
When possible, try to mix brands, models, or at least batches.
But also, if you are doing this professionally, you should be following the 3-2-1 backup strategy so any one (or two) drives failing should be irrelevant. You should at least have off site backups IMO. With cloud backup, that's a lot easier these days.
For businesses, I would use local drive/array backups and cloud at minimum.
Sign up for a Slickdeals account to remove this ad.
Leave a Comment