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Refurbished: 18TB WD Ultrastar DC HC550 SATA 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise Hard Drive

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goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has 18TB WD Ultrastar DC HC550 SATA 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise Internal Hard Disk Drive (Refurbished, 0 Bad Sector, Grade A, 5 Years Warranty) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.
  • Condition Note from Seller: These HDD are fully tested & passed HGST factory diagnose software test with 0 Bad Sectors & about 3 Year Usage.
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goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has 18TB WD Ultrastar DC HC550 SATA 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise Internal Hard Disk Drive (Refurbished, 0 Bad Sector, Grade A, 5 Years Warranty) on sale for $199.99. Shipping is free.
  • Condition Note from Seller: These HDD are fully tested & passed HGST factory diagnose software test with 0 Bad Sectors & about 3 Year Usage.
Thanks to Deal Hunter tDames for sharing this deal.

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  • About this Store:
    • goHardDrive Wholesale and Retail via eBay has a 99.8% positive feedback with over 569K items sold.
    • 30 days returns. Seller pays for return shipping.
  • Additional Information:
    • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.

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CMarshall85
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I saw somebody else mention that servers/drives generally get decommissioned around the same time of year. If true, the higher prices right now are possibly just because supply is low and price will go down again soon when there's an influx of "new" drives.

EDIT:
It appears the last deals on 12tb's started June/July of last year and then got even lower in Aug/Sept/Oct
TonmoyDas
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$11.11 per TB. The last frontpage deal for 10TB was $8.99 per TB.
t99
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Server parts deals is more reliable because they actually test each drive extensively before shipping (they show their process on YouTube), but they are also more expensive. Goharddrive I guess decided on a different business model, they don't bother testing their drives properly but instead offer a longer 5 year warranty with a painless return process.

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Jun 30, 2025
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jacob2012
Jun 30, 2025
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Bought a few 12, 14TB last year before price jumped, they were just impulsive purchases back then, but now I am happy about my impulsive purchases
Jun 30, 2025
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LuisG9065
Jun 30, 2025
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Quote from msheikh25 :
Damn, just setup my first NAS (ds224+) with 2 of the 10TB drives from last week. The 5 year warranty makes these drives very low risk but did not think of this scenario. I setup the drives without encryption too since the tutorial I was following made me think encryption was mainly for business need only. Gotta see if I can encrypt without having to format and start over now.

I missed last week deal...but hopefully this is a sign more to come.
Jun 30, 2025
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NervousHorn154
Jun 30, 2025
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HAHAHAHAHAH drop it by another 30 and I might consider it.
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hiroo916
Jun 30, 2025
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Quote from back2basics :
I prefer Goharddrive for the longer warranty. ServerPartsDeal only has a 30 day return period and no warranty after. I bought 12 drives from them and did extensive testing right when I got them (2 weeks in from purchase date to finish). Then 4 drives proceeded to fail within the next 3 months with light usage (iso storage for a backup server, not an in-use server). I understand that drives fail, but still, having 1/3 of my investment wasted in a few months sucks. I'm just glad I didn't lose anything critical.
ServerPartsDeals lists 2 year seller warranty for the refurbished drives on their website. Not sure about their sales through eBay or other sites.
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kpb321
Jun 30, 2025
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Quote from msheikh25 :
Damn, just setup my first NAS (ds224+) with 2 of the 10TB drives from last week. The 5 year warranty makes these drives very low risk but did not think of this scenario. I setup the drives without encryption too since the tutorial I was following made me think encryption was mainly for business need only. Gotta see if I can encrypt without having to format and start over now.
I assume you are using a mirror with only two drives so yeah encryption would be a good idea. Assuming you are using at least 3 disks and some sort of raid or raid like system with parity it should make it much harder to recover anything larger than the strip size. Anything split across multiple disks and into multiple blocks would be difficult to impossible to recover even part of.
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msheikh25
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Quote from kpb321 :
I assume you are using a mirror with only two drives so yeah encryption would be a good idea. Assuming you are using at least 3 disks and some sort of raid or raid like system with parity it should make it much harder to recover anything larger than the strip size. Anything split across multiple disks and into multiple blocks would be difficult to impossible to recover even part of.

Yea it's only 2 drives with mirror for fail over. I see whole volume encryption is not possible now that I've already created and started using it unfortunately. But I can still do folder level encryption. This is mainly to protect against a complete drive failure where I have to send it back for warranty purposes. Although I do have quick connect enabled too for photo syncing but SSH disabled.
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Pinako
Jul 1, 2025
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Quote from msheikh25 :
Yea it's only 2 drives with mirror for fail over. I see whole volume encryption is not possible now that I've already created and started using it unfortunately. But I can still do folder level encryption. This is mainly to protect against a complete drive failure where I have to send it back for warranty purposes. Although I do have quick connect enabled too for photo syncing but SSH disabled.
If you had a third drive that's at least 10 TB (your current mirrored volume size), you could potentially make the move with acceptable reliability (as long as you're sure all three disks are free of defects). If you're keeping a third drive as a spare, for example, you could put it to use this way: 1) set up drive #3 as a degraded RAID 1 array with whole disk encryption, 2) copy all data over to drive #3's array, 3) format one of the old disks and add it to the new array, and 4) make the other old disk the new spare.

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LavenderRoute2708
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Quote from t99 :
Server parts deals is more reliable because they actually test each drive extensively before shipping (they show their process on YouTube), but they are also more expensive. Goharddrive I guess decided on a different business model, they don't bother testing their drives properly but instead offer a longer 5 year warranty with a painless return process.

Been running 14xHC530's for over two years from GoHardDrive. No issues yet to report. Would buy again very pleased.
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FantasticRoute1804
Jul 1, 2025
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Quote from bjamm :
Just had a drive die. any deals on a 16 or lower? 18 is too big as it would be my parity and gives me no point in adding it lol
If the price is right, it doesn't matter the size, as long as it's at least as big as your current disks.
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msheikh25
Jul 1, 2025
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Quote from Pinako :
If you had a third drive that's at least 10 TB (your current mirrored volume size), you could potentially make the move with acceptable reliability (as long as you're sure all three disks are free of defects). If you're keeping a third drive as a spare, for example, you could put it to use this way: 1) set up drive #3 as a degraded RAID 1 array with whole disk encryption, 2) copy all data over to drive #3's array, 3) format one of the old disks and add it to the new array, and 4) make the other old disk the new spare.

I have a ds224 so only 2 drives. Ill probably only have between 500gb to 1tb of data by the time I'm done setting up everything though since I'm moving over from a WD external 1TB drive + google photos. So I can probably copy everything back to the USB drive once I have it all organized on Synology, recreate my Synology pool with encryption, and then copy it back to Synology. Have to see if it's worth the trouble because this means redoing all the settings I went through for the volume again.

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