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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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UPDATE--yeah, the $5 coupon is DEFINITELY a YMMV. @spooky187 was not able to use the one I sent them--they got a "wrong code" error. I will update the original posting to say the extra $5 is a definite YMMV.
I bought the enterprise WD drives from a past slickdeals from the same seller but from newegg last summer. Running them initially for testing in a Ugreen NAS but they've proven themselves so far.
I bought the enterprise WD drives from a past slickdeals from the same seller but from newegg last summer. Running them initially for testing in a Ugreen NAS but they've proven themselves so far.
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Yes you can always replace a drive with another drive of the same or larger capacity. In my nas, I replaced one drive at a time with larger capacity, waited for it to rebuild, then swapped out the second drive and waited for a rebuild. After that I was able to increase the capacity in the settings.
I would consider $7.50/TB with the 5 yr warranty. Anything with a shorter warranty would make no sense.
Because I'm getting a 5 year warranty instead of whatever WD employee I get decides to honor.
I just use drives like these to torrent/usenet, no personal info is stored, so I can send them back without worry
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.
They've been on Ebay since 2005, they're not going anywhere
I'm wary of HAMR too. Are you saying these drives aren't HAMR?
If you're seeing warnings in Event Viewer, I'd definitely do some thorough diagnostics. Also, make sure you're looking at the right drive. I believe Windows labels the first drive as Disk 0, leading to some confusion.
"Since the [recertified] drives has [sic] been tested twice by the test process we actually see lower return rates that [sic] we do for new drives."
And for whilte label drives, they say:
"The drive goes through the same test sequence as a recertified or new drive."
So how do you conclude that white label brands "are often selling some of the lowest binned drive." The webpage you pointed out does not say this anywhere. In fact, as I mentioned above, it says that white label drives undergo the same test process as recertified drives.
For those thinking that the zero hour on these recertified drives are simply due to wiping out the SMART data, that is not necessarily the case! Read the webpage--they may be true zero hour/usage drives!
There's another line in that link I find noteworthy:
While I've never personally used one of these debranded white labels, I've been paying attention to them and the anecdotal reports from others for a very long time. I get the strong impression that they are substantially less reliable that most drives bearing the manufacturer's name. That's not to say there aren't people who will have good experiences with them.
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