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12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 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 (HUH721212ALE601, Refurbished: Excellent) on sale for $74. Shipping is free.

Thanks Community Member 404_notfound for finding this deal.

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  • Select accounts may have a 10% off coupon code on the product page
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

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  • About this Deal:
    • Includes 5-Year Warranty from Seller + 1-Year Allstate Warranty.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and give the WIKI and forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • About this Store:
    • 30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.
    • Seller goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail has a 99.8% positive feedback rating with over 520K items sold.

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Written by 404_notfound
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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 404_notfound for finding this deal.

Additional Savings:
  • Select accounts may have a 10% off coupon code on the product page
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

Editor's Notes

Written by SubZero5 | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • Includes 5-Year Warranty from Seller + 1-Year Allstate Warranty.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and give the WIKI and forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
  • About this Store:
    • 30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.
    • Seller goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail has a 99.8% positive feedback rating with over 520K items sold.

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These are ideal for those that data horde or have some cursory knowledge of storage systems and/or NAS/SAN systems in general. These are not drives that you will purchase a single drive and just start using as a normal, primary or secondary drive. You absolutely can, but don't be surprised if it fails and all your data is lost. These are ideal for using in raid or zfs arrays/pools where 1,2,3 etc drives can fail and the array can be rebuilt without issue. I currently have 16 of these in a 100tb zfs pool and 7 x 8tb drives in a 32tb pool, I have only had 1 failure in the 5 years of using these types of drives. The failure doesn't mean much at all other than having to swap out the dead disk, definitely get your money's worth considering these are half of what you would pay for a consumer drive that may or not have about a similar lifespan.
These will fit the Sabrent enclosure without needing any adapters. I use these exact drives in the same Sabrent enclosure.
Ordered a few days ago (at $79 shrug) and showed up quickly and well packed. SMART reports 36660 hours and no problems on the drive I received. (Will be using in a redundant RAID so low stress.)

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_DonkeyKong_
Sep 25, 2024
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this is very interesting. ive never done this sort of thing before,


would this fit into this external hard drive docking station ("SABRENT USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD")? also on sale for $23.79

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&psc=1


id like to connect it to all my various old laptops and desktops and back everything up, would the connectors just fit or is it going to be a hassle because these are server hard drives and have some weird connectors that wont fit a normal mainstream consumer external hd docking station like the one i linked above
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Quote from _DonkeyKong_ :
this is very interesting. ive never done this sort of thing before,


would this fit into this external hard drive docking station ("SABRENT USB 3.0 to SATA External Hard Drive Lay-Flat Docking Station for 2.5 or 3.5in HDD")? also on sale for $23.79

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product...UTF8&psc=1 [amazon.com]


id like to connect it to all my various old laptops and desktops and back everything up, would the connectors just fit or is it going to be a hassle because these are server hard drives and have some weird connectors that wont fit a normal mainstream consumer external hd docking station like the one i linked above
These will fit the Sabrent enclosure without needing any adapters. I use these exact drives in the same Sabrent enclosure.
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These are ideal for those that data horde or have some cursory knowledge of storage systems and/or NAS/SAN systems in general. These are not drives that you will purchase a single drive and just start using as a normal, primary or secondary drive. You absolutely can, but don't be surprised if it fails and all your data is lost. These are ideal for using in raid or zfs arrays/pools where 1,2,3 etc drives can fail and the array can be rebuilt without issue. I currently have 16 of these in a 100tb zfs pool and 7 x 8tb drives in a 32tb pool, I have only had 1 failure in the 5 years of using these types of drives. The failure doesn't mean much at all other than having to swap out the dead disk, definitely get your money's worth considering these are half of what you would pay for a consumer drive that may or not have about a similar lifespan.
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Ordered a few days ago (at $79 shrug) and showed up quickly and well packed. SMART reports 36660 hours and no problems on the drive I received. (Will be using in a redundant RAID so low stress.)
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QCwvGyFu
Sep 25, 2024
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Thanks for this! in for 1
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IdahoRoamingGnome
Sep 25, 2024
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Ordered one awhile back. First one had 12 bad sectors, emailed them, got return label, and replacement is perfect, zero bad sectors. Both were around the 4+ years powered on hours.
Sep 25, 2024
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rgii
Sep 25, 2024
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Thanks OP! Ordered one from one of the other deals; received a drive with low power on time which seemed odd, but it passed all tests w/ zero bad sectors or anything else I could see.

Nothing critical will be going on these that isn't backed up elsewhere. In for 1 more.

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norn
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Is it very loud or noisy? Thanks
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jimsgrandma
Sep 25, 2024
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Quote from norn :
Is it very loud or noisy? Thanks
I remember in one of the many other thread someone said this one is loud, whereas I believe the WD one is quieter.
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Mr Fender
Sep 25, 2024
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Same as noted before, bought a couple for my Plex server from previous deal. One was DOA on arrival but hassle free and fast replacement. One had 22k hours, the other 28k so 2.5 to 3 years. Running two in a Synology box, yes they are a little louder than WD Reds but they are enterprise level drives so as expected. Temp running 100F in Quiet mode. Not running anything mission critical so I think they're a pretty good deal.
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RigelH
Sep 25, 2024
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Can you use this for gaming?
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Quote from helpfulracoon :
I remember in one of the many other thread someone said this one is loud, whereas I believe the WD one is quieter.
I've seen every permutation on qualifying the sound levels in the many threads.

Some say so loud it forced a return.
Some say only loud on heavy load.
Some blame users mounting solution.
Some suggest you will never sleep again.

And some say it's well within the range of acceptable and jab at others who say otherwise

I spent serious time trying to figure out a consensus but not seemed to show itself.

Buy and try seems to be the case
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Quote from IdahoRoamingGnome :
Ordered one awhile back. First one had 12 bad sectors, emailed them, got return label, and replacement is perfect, zero bad sectors. Both were around the 4+ years powered on hours.
What software did you used to detect the bad sectors?
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Quote from helpfulracoon :
I remember in one of the many other thread someone said this one is loud, whereas I believe the WD one is quieter.
This IS a WD essentially, they bought out HGST and have been making drives like this for years now.

Any enterprise drive is going to be "louder" compared to a consumer drive, but much of that still has to do with application.
Mounting these directly to metal with no isolation in a metal box that is right next to where you sleep and you're 22 with hearing? That's gonna be a bad time.
If you mount these to plastic drive sleds with rubber isolation grommets, etc and have it in the room next door, they're fine. Seeks are a little loud but they're really not much worse than most consumer drives IMO.

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Quote from trunksu :
What software did you used to detect the bad sectors?
Victoria is a good free generic one.

I've also used WD Data Lifeguard in the past, which will work on any drive as long as you have a WD one somewhere on your system. Since these ARE WD, you're already good.

But Victoria is no hassle and has a lot of scan options.
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