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expiredbuduz0r posted Oct 11, 2024 08:45 PM

Refurbished: 12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise Hard Drive

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goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has 12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 SATA 6GB 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise HDD Hard Drive (HUH721212ALE601, Refurbished: Excellent) on sale for $72.99. Shipping is free.

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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:
  • 3.5" Form Factor
  • SATA 6Gb/s Interface
  • 256MB Cache
  • 7.2K RPM Spindle Speed

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Written by citan359 | 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 524K items sold.

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goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has 12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 SATA 6GB 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise HDD Hard Drive (HUH721212ALE601, Refurbished: Excellent) on sale for $72.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks Community Member buduz0r 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:
  • 3.5" Form Factor
  • SATA 6Gb/s Interface
  • 256MB Cache
  • 7.2K RPM Spindle Speed

Editor's Notes

Written by citan359 | 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 524K items sold.

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OrangeSnake211
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I bought 2 and both were DOA. Kinda made me skeptical of their testing/refurbishing. I bought two from another seller on different occasions and both are fine. But I read about more positive experiences from them than mine. Return was pretty seamless as well.
buduz0r
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these are SATA drives, you can use them on your desktop computer, they also provide a power adapter in case you need it.

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Oct 12, 2024 05:14 AM
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ZericOct 12, 2024 05:14 AM
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Quote from madshakes :
which program did you use to test?
Victoria v5.37. First did a full write, then verify. I simultaneously had Crystaldiskinfo running so I could watch the temperature and SMART data occasionally. Took several days to get through all four disks.
Oct 12, 2024 05:24 AM
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ZericOct 12, 2024 05:24 AM
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Quote from kpb321 :
This always comes up in these threads. If you are afraid of loosing stuff because this refurbished drive might die then the problem is not the refurbished drive. It's your lack of a proper back up system. Any single drive failure should not put any important information at risk. Spending "Bucks" on a new drive instead of one of these refurbs hoping it means it is more reliable for you is a mistake. Instead buy two of these and an external enclosure so you can have one in your computer for your photos and the second in an enclosure for a backup. That's at least a start at actually protecting your photos. One drive in your computer backed up to another drive in a NAS or an external enclosure and a cloud backup to backblaze would be a decent minimum option. Two of these in a mirror in the NAS would be an improvement because a single drive failure there doesn't take out your NAS.Personally, I've got 3 of these in my QNAP NAS now. Got them recently and all 3 tested fine. Finished getting them installed in the NAS a couple days ago. My important pictures are backed up to the NAS from our phones with the NAS's back up app and then the NAS directly backs up the photos to OneDrive.
Exactly, back ups are a requirement for any important data, regardless of the media cost / type / brand. My current NAS (Raid 1) backs up to another on-site server that has a single drive, it backs up (encrypted) to B2 cloud, and lastly, it backs up (encrypted) to a raspberry pi with an external disk I keep at my in-laws house. So.... two on-site copies of important data, and two off-site at geographically different locations.
Oct 12, 2024 05:26 AM
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SolisOct 12, 2024 05:26 AM
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Quote from egkr :
i returned it just today . It was too heavy . Thought I could use it like a portable drive .
I know the feeling. I bought an RTX 4090 but I had to return it because it didn't fit into my laptop.
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Oct 12, 2024 09:57 AM
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IronMonkeyOct 12, 2024 09:57 AM
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Quote from Solis :
I know the feeling. I bought an RTX 4090 but I had to return it because it didn't fit into my laptop.
Lol, be nice now😁
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Oct 12, 2024 10:23 AM
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namlookOct 12, 2024 10:23 AM
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Quote from reedealer :
I randomly searched for drives and had this in my cart for weeks now. Wonder how/why specifically this one was posted on Slickdeals… I'm still waiting for the random 10-20% off refurb coupon so I can buy it then.
A cashback site has 12% back for Ebay purchases until 10/13 dropping price to $64.
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Oct 12, 2024 11:46 AM
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avalon
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Oct 12, 2024 11:46 AM
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is there such a thing as a cheap Raid10 hardware case where I can put five of these (or is 3 minimum for Raid10) and it does all the work to keep it "safe"

so if one fails I get maybe a week or two window to replace it

only way I'd ever touch a used drive and definitely not helium filled
Oct 12, 2024 12:47 PM
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Hefewe1zenOct 12, 2024 12:47 PM
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Quote from avalon :
is there such a thing as a cheap Raid10 hardware case where I can put five of these (or is 3 minimum for Raid10) and it does all the work to keep it "safe"

so if one fails I get maybe a week or two window to replace it

only way I'd ever touch a used drive and definitely not helium filled
raid 10 would need 4 drives. https://www.techtarget.com/search...dent-disks
imo the other potential issue is using a proprietary enclosure's RAID hardware

also idk if anyone has dumped the smart data, but i would presume these have a lot of uptime already, probably at least 40-50k hours

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Oct 12, 2024 12:53 PM
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DillDozerOct 12, 2024 12:53 PM
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Quote from avalon :
is there such a thing as a cheap Raid10 hardware case where I can put five of these (or is 3 minimum for Raid10) and it does all the work to keep it "safe"

so if one fails I get maybe a week or two window to replace it

only way I'd ever touch a used drive and definitely not helium filled
RAID is dead. ZFS is king.
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Oct 12, 2024 12:59 PM
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dhishiOct 12, 2024 12:59 PM
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Recently bought one and came dead on arrival. Poor Quality Control. Good Luck!
Oct 12, 2024 01:36 PM
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FantOct 12, 2024 01:36 PM
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Ordered 2 for my Synology 923+... What is a good way to test these drives in an automated mode? Does Synology have a test for it or should it plug this into my desktop PC and run something like hard disk sentinal?
Oct 12, 2024 02:08 PM
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shamelessOct 12, 2024 02:08 PM
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Thoughts on energy efficiency vs performance vs cost vs. environmental, etc. compared to the WD Red or similar 5400 RPM? (although tbh I haven't seen any deals on those)
My UNRAID experience with both has been mixed, with these being snappier to respond to network file access, but wondering what others feel is best in a home media/docker server environment with average use.
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Oct 12, 2024 02:09 PM
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Quote from avalon :
is there such a thing as a cheap Raid10 hardware case where I can put five of these (or is 3 minimum for Raid10) and it does all the work to keep it "safe"

so if one fails I get maybe a week or two window to replace it

only way I'd ever touch a used drive and definitely not helium filled
You are confusing RAID5 and RAID10. RAID10 requires an even number of drives, minimum 4. RAID 5 can happen on any number drives, minimum 3.
Oct 12, 2024 02:26 PM
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HonestSweater732Oct 12, 2024 02:26 PM
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Bought one 12TB drive 2 weeks back for my WHS-2011 HP MediaSmart server that centralizes 12 Reolink camera video/image captures.
My biggest concern was noise, and I'm happy to say the drive is very quiet, not like those old IBM drives that used to clunk/grind.
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jLikeToShopOct 12, 2024 03:07 PM
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I'm going to throw this out there, I know folks will point out flaws... I'm a big fan of raid10. I run zfs with 4 drives. Drives 1 & 2 mirrored, and drives 3 & 4 mirrored, striped across the two mirrors. Yes, I have a risk if both drives in a mirror die before a resilver, but... It's much nicer to grow space over time, I just need to replace two larger drives in one of the mirrors in order to unlock new space. A raid5/6 sucks imo for incremental storage growth because you have to update all drives in order to see any growth. With raid10, if your growth rate isn't too rapid, you end up with one mirror 2-3 generations behind (eg 8tb), and one mirror 1-2 generations behind (12-14tb). By the time you're swapping out the older drives it's no big loss. I don't know if I'd expand this pattern to 6 or more drives, at that point I'd probably worry more about overall redundancy for the pool. And of course, keep separate backups.
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Oct 12, 2024 04:03 PM
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formyperOct 12, 2024 04:03 PM
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I bought 6 of the 14tb ultrastar hc drives from this seller, all six tested flawlessly and have been spinning for a month now with no issues. Just to balance out those folks who had a bad experience

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