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28TB Seagate 28 TB Seagate Exos 7.2K RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5" Enterprise HDD - ST28000NM000C (Refurb) 2 Yr Warranty $340 $339.99

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28TB Seagate 28 TB Seagate Exos 7.2K RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5" Enterprise HDD - ST28000NM000C (Refurb) 2 Yr Warranty $340

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Been watching this for a while and this is the lowest in months.

28TB Seagate 28 TB Seagate Exos 7.2K RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5" Enterprise HDD - ST28000NM000C (Refurb) 2 Yr Warranty $340

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Apr 29, 2025 07:58 PM
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blahblehApr 29, 2025 07:58 PM
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$12.14/TB and 2 year warranty? I was hoping for something closer to $7/TB and 5 year warranty…
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Quote from blahbleh :
$12.14/TB and 2 year warranty? I was hoping for something closer to $7/TB and 5 year warranty…
if you are comparing to some 14tb deals, you are getting a 5-8 year drive vs a 1 year drive. Together with slot cost($50,$150 if you buy synology), you get $10.57-17.71/tb vs $14-17.5/tb.
My slots are $50 each, I still like this deal more.
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Quote from RCMIKE :
Refurbished mechanical drives? Gosh, what could go wrong?
The main thing that could go wrong is someone uses it improperly, ie not as part of a larger RAID array with fault tolerance. If you're using these drives for their intended purpose, they provide an excellent value proposition and will be a great buy.
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Quote from Seed-Slay-Slick :
if you are comparing to some 14tb deals, you are getting a 5-8 year drive vs a 1 year drive. Together with slot cost($50,$150 if you buy synology), you get $10.57-17.71/tb vs $14-17.5/tb. My slots are $50 each, I still like this deal more.
What is the slot cost? And why would the slot cost matter?
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Apr 29, 2025 10:50 PM
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ForgzApr 29, 2025 10:50 PM
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Why are there only refurbs available and not new versions of this drive?
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Quote from blahbleh :
What is the slot cost? And why would the slot cost matter?
Your NAS box, or even PC case, only has so many slots. $200 4 bay NAS? $50 slot cost.
Run out of slots, have to run a second NAS or replace an existing drive sooner.
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itsalladreamApr 30, 2025 01:03 AM
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Would these be appropriate for raid 5? I suspect the likelihood of losing 2 of these would be pretty low.
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Quote from blahbleh :
I see. The slot cost should be irrelevant in this case then because this deal only mentions the HDD.
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It's a highly relevant factor to many of the people buying this kind of drive.

You literally just asked "why would the slot cost matter?" and they were kind enough to explain it to you..
Last edited by Immacoolguy April 29, 2025 at 06:29 PM.
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Quote from blahbleh :
I see. The slot cost should be irrelevant in this case then because this deal only mentions the HDD.
It's not irrelevant unless you have unlimited physical space, unlimited SATA connectors, and unlimited power to supply to those drives. You can't compare a 28TB deal directly to a 14TB deal on a price per TB basis and say this is a bad deal because the storage density is not the same. You'd need to take into account the full picture and cost to deploy the drive and utilize the storage for a more accurate assessment of cost.
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Quote from itsalladream :
Would these be appropriate for raid 5? I suspect the likelihood of losing 2 of these would be pretty low.
Depending how important the data is and how wide the array is you could certainly use it for raid 5, but personally for anything this large I would go with at least something like raid 6. Losing one of these and having to rebuild would make me nervous unless it was files I could replace fairly easily.
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$346 when I purchased in last month. Not exactly a monumental price drop
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Quote from itsalladream :
Would these be appropriate for raid 5? I suspect the likelihood of losing 2 of these would be pretty low.
While the likelihood of losing 2 drives at the same time is extremely small, the likelihood of losing a drive during rebuild goes up dramatically, especially if they're all from the same lot of drives with similar usage. Rebuilding an array really stresses out the drives, increasing the chance of failure. Anecdotally, an array with 16tb drives that is not in use while rebuilding will take more than a day to rebuild- these will probably take around 2 days at minimum, and the length of time goes up if the array is accessed for other workloads. RAID5 for large drives isn't recommended for this reason- the length of time required for rebuilding large drives greatly increases the chance of failure and complete data loss.

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b4andafterApr 30, 2025 03:23 AM
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Quote from blahbleh :
I see. The slot cost should be irrelevant in this case then because this deal only mentions the HDD.

You are thinking about price of a drive while others are talking about cost of storage. Two very different concepts
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