goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has various 22TB MDD 7200RPM 256MB Cache 3.5" SATA Hard Drives w/ 5yr Warranty (Excellent - Refurbished) Now-> from $259.95 each. Shipping is free.
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goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has various 22TB MDD 7200RPM 256MB Cache 3.5" SATA Hard Drives w/ 5yr Warranty (Excellent - Refurbished) Now-> from $259.95 each. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member wordage for sharing this deal.
Prices of refurbs tend to drop towards the end of the year as datacenters liquidate "aging" drives. That's what we saw last year, there was just a flood of cheap really good quality refurbs.
1. These will have their SMART data wiped to prevent us from identifying any defects, I am assuming?
2. Almost every other review of the seller mentions finding bad sectors on surface scan. Seller is very responsive about quick replacement they all say though. So testing is critical.
3. 5 year warranty by whom? Seller warranties usually don't have a good history of being honored. ("You didn't use it in the manner intended")
These drives have like a 2 million hours MTBF rating... So even supposing 5 years in a data center:5 years = 24 x 365 x 5 = 43,800 hoursThis is only a fraction of the 2 million so these drives still have a lot to give!Check over in https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ if you are concerned about factory-recertified enterprise-class drives.
MTBF is more like the average of time before a failure occurs.
For example, if a car has a 2 million mile MTBF it doesn't mean the car was designed to drive 2 million miles. It is more like you took 20 cars and drove them 100k then there should be 1 failure among the 20 cars. 20x100k = 2 million.
1. These will have their SMART data wiped to prevent us from identifying any defects, I am assuming?
2. Almost every other review of the seller mentions finding bad sectors on surface scan. Seller is very responsive about quick replacement they all say though. So testing is critical.
3. 5 year warranty by whom? Seller warranties usually don't have a good history of being honored. ("You didn't use it in the manner intended")
I actually just had a drive replace by GoHardDrive. I emailed them with a video of what was happening and they didn't ask and further questions and said to mail it back. I got a replacement within a week.
I have 4 from them and only one had an issue a year out.
This is $10/TB, currently, with the current prices of HDDs, this is a really good price, however it's a lot higher than where the prices were 6 months ago, where I bought a 12TB for $74.99, which makes it $6.24/TB
I'm hoping it's a sign of prices coming down so I can start stocking up again, but if you need it now, I'll go for it.
Sorry I might be sleep deprived, but how is $260 / 22TB = $10/TB?
I can't fathom anyone who pays more than $10/TB for a used hard drive when you can buy new for $15/TB.
I would consider $7.50/TB with the 5 yr warranty. Anything with a shorter warranty would make no sense.
Depends on who is honoring the warranty. They could offer a 10
year warranty and it would not mean anything if they never plan to honor it.
I would not put much stock into a third party rebadger honoring such long warranties.
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Depends on who is honoring the warranty. They could offer a 10year warranty and it would not mean anything if they never plan to honor it.I would not put much stock into a third party rebadger honoring such long warranties.
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So less than 3 years use maximum.
5 years = 24 x 365 x 5 = 43,800 hours
This is only a fraction of the 2 million so these drives still have a lot to give!
Check over in https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ if you are concerned about factory-recertified enterprise-class drives.
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2. Almost every other review of the seller mentions finding bad sectors on surface scan. Seller is very responsive about quick replacement they all say though. So testing is critical.
3. 5 year warranty by whom? Seller warranties usually don't have a good history of being honored. ("You didn't use it in the manner intended")
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5 years = 24 x 365 x 5 = 43,800 hours
This is only a fraction of the 2 million so these drives still have a lot to give!
Check over in https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ if you are concerned about factory-recertified enterprise-class drives.
MTBF is more like the average of time before a failure occurs.
For example, if a car has a 2 million mile MTBF it doesn't mean the car was designed to drive 2 million miles. It is more like you took 20 cars and drove them 100k then there should be 1 failure among the 20 cars. 20x100k = 2 million.
Hope that helps.
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So less than 3 years use maximum.
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2. Almost every other review of the seller mentions finding bad sectors on surface scan. Seller is very responsive about quick replacement they all say though. So testing is critical.
3. 5 year warranty by whom? Seller warranties usually don't have a good history of being honored. ("You didn't use it in the manner intended")
I have 4 from them and only one had an issue a year out.
I'm hoping it's a sign of prices coming down so I can start stocking up again, but if you need it now, I'll go for it.
I would consider $7.50/TB with the 5 yr warranty. Anything with a shorter warranty would make no sense.
year warranty and it would not mean anything if they never plan to honor it.
I would not put much stock into a third party rebadger honoring such long warranties.
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