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expired Posted by wordage • Mar 19, 2025
Mar 19, 2025 12:36 AM
Refurb: 22TB MDD 7200RPM 256MB Cache 3.5" SATA Hard Drives w/ 5yr Warranty
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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")
I'm assuming the 'every other review' is a byproduct of the fact that most people don't post positive reviews. I've bought from there multiple times and never had an issue and I've never left them feedback.
Their warranty coverage is solid, as many positive reviews have come back here on SD and on Reddit, and why wouldn't it be? They're a hard drive refurb outfit that buys large quantities of used drives to flip on eBay. They've got a failure rate built into their business, it's just how it works - so when a drive goes bad, they've got another one in stock ready to roll to ensure that the customer is kept happy.
The one thing to note - new or used, all drives are prone to failure. If the data is important enough to you, back it up. If you back up important data, then a refurbed drive like this is a low risk, high reward gamble.
I'm just ticked off that like above, I expected prices on these drives to remain low and didn't buy more. I have two NAS setups that are both mirroring because I expected to add a third drive to each down the line, only to have the cost of the drives shoot up from 105 bucks to 180. D'oh!
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.
Sure but drive failures are not a bell curve, if anything it's the opposite. Failures are clustered at the beginning and end of the expected lifespan, so any used drive should be expected to last beyond the MTBF.
Sure, it's only 18TB, but the drive is genuinely brand new and comes with a legitmate 5-year warranty from a reputable brand and merchant. Not to say GoHardDrive isn't trustworthy, of course—I don't know much about them, to be honest—but they certainly don't compare to Western Digital...
A comparison of GoHardDrive and Western Digital is not really par for par--WD is an actual producer of hard drives while GoHardDrive is a reseller/refurbisher. Whether one is more reliable than the other for warranty coverage, that's up for you to decide, and the last few messages in this thread can help you with that decision.
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A comparison of GoHardDrive and Western Digital is not really par for par--WD is an actual producer of hard drives while GoHardDrive is a reseller/refurbisher. Whether one is more reliable than the other for warranty coverage, that's up for you to decide, and the last few messages in this thread can help you with that decision.
The good news is that prices might come down thanks to Seagate's newest affordable external hard drives. In my opinion, $350 for a new 26TB drive isn't bad [bestbuy.com] and makes paying $260 for a well-used 22TB drive pretty unappealing.
In my opinion, GoHardDrive has raised their prices too high, as they were much more reasonable not too long ago. Hopefully, Seagate's high-capacity, affordable external drives will help drive down prices across the board soon.
The good news is that prices might come down thanks to Seagate's newest affordable external hard drives. In my opinion, $350 for a new 26TB drive isn't bad [bestbuy.com] and makes paying $260 for a well-used 22TB drive pretty unappealing.
The warranty for those Seagate externals is only 1 year in the USA; strangely enough, if you live in Europe, it's 3 years, I believe. I guess Europe has better consumer protection and rights—shame, really.
As for purchasing brand new true NAS-grade externals, WD offers an 18TB drive for $380 [westerndigital.com] with a 6-year warranty (1 extra year for a limited time). I'm almost certain you can get that price down to $350 using the ubiquitous promo codes and cashback offers available on the internet.
Overall, I'm hopeful that Seagate's newest affordable external offerings will eventually drive prices down. I realize these aren't enterprise-grade, but I'm inferring that their affordability could help cool down prices regardless...
When was this? Recently I would like to get some new hhds
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As opposed to what? Should've? Should half?
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