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expiredtDames | Staff posted Jun 29, 2025 08:50 PM

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 12:13 AM
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DerProfiJun 30, 2025 12:13 AM
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I will forever be emotionally scarred from the see-saw of emotions caused by going from $73 for a 12TB HC520 to $200 for an 18GB HC550.
Jun 30, 2025 12:25 AM
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kpb321Jun 30, 2025 12:25 AM
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Quote from afrugalfather :
I'd like to go back to buying $80 12tb drives from them too, but sadly the past is the past.
For once I think I managed to hit one of the best of not the best deals available. Got 3x 12tb drives for ~$200 total or about ~$67 each. The drives were $74 each and managed to apply a 10% of refurb ebay coupon. Ordered end of last September so seems to fit what CMarshall85 posted.
Jun 30, 2025 01:03 AM
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awdrifterJun 30, 2025 01:03 AM
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These are usually drives used in data centers for 5+ years, they are retired because they are close to the end of their design life. The only refurbishing these sellers do is wiping the data on the drive and the maybe also wipe the SMART data.
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Jun 30, 2025 01:10 AM
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tCLOCKJun 30, 2025 01:10 AM
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Quote from awdrifter :
These are usually drives used in data centers for 5+ years, they are retired because they are close to the end of their design life. The only refurbishing these sellers do is wiping the data on the drive and the maybe also wipe the SMART data.
.....and? I think we are all aware of that.
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Jun 30, 2025 01:24 AM
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odie5533Jun 30, 2025 01:24 AM
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These server drives run loud and hot. Recommend you not be in the same room as one since they're loud. Need a fan if run in an external enclosure.

I run one in my basement inside this enclosure https://www.amazon.com/FIDECO-Ext...0BXDRJV7R/
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Jun 30, 2025 02:21 AM
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Rumzie
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Jun 30, 2025 02:21 AM
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I love these drives and have used them exclusively in my servers for years without issue, but the combination of being refurbs AND from eBay is a dealbreaker (unless they are run in mirrored pairs, or aren't holding crucial data).
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Jun 30, 2025 02:23 AM
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FMcamaroZ28Jun 30, 2025 02:23 AM
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With the MTBF of 2.5 million hours, some would argue they are not even close to the end of their design life.

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Jun 30, 2025 02:36 AM
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LephatuJun 30, 2025 02:36 AM
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I wanted to buy more than 6. Has anyone tried making multiple purchases?
Jun 30, 2025 02:54 AM
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zbaJun 30, 2025 02:54 AM
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Quote from FMcamaroZ28 :
With the MTBF of 2.5 million hours, some would argue they are not even close to the end of their design life.
This is not true. Bought 12 TB from them. Just died after 4 m of light use. I am not going to send it back with all my personal data. I thought that they are more reliable.Frankly it looks it is not a bargain
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t99Jun 30, 2025 03:01 AM
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Quote from zba :
This is not true. Bought 12 TB from them. Just died after 4 m of light use. I am not going to send it back with all my personal data. I thought that they are more reliable.Frankly it looks it is not a bargain
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 03:15 AM
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nsls2061Jun 30, 2025 03:15 AM
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Weren't these made by Hitachi before? Is the quality still as good?
Jun 30, 2025 04:30 AM
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makkonenJun 30, 2025 04:30 AM
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I had a 12tb from goharddrive purchased last year when they were cheap. It recently started failing. I tried to take advantage of the warranty and they claimed they were out of stock, so they would refund my original purchase price. When prices are going down, that's a great option. But at the moment, it feels pretty terrible for my 12tb hard drive to fail and to have to pay an extra ~$70 on top of my refund for a like-kind replacement. (I bought a couple 20tb replacements from a different seller on Amazon instead. Might as well upgrade the mirrored pair since 12tb is no longer nearly as good as a value.)
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Jun 30, 2025 05:03 AM
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WittyDime1668Jun 30, 2025 05:03 AM
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Quote from zba :
This is not true. Bought 12 TB from them. Just died after 4 m of light use. I am not going to send it back with all my personal data. I thought that they are more reliable.Frankly it looks it is not a bargain
I had a similar situation with one of their drives dying a few months after purchase on eBay. It was a no warning, click of death scenario, and while it was backups of data, there was still some un-encrypted personal data on there. At the time, they offered me a partial refund for the failure and I kept the drive. I ended up buying 2 more drives from them as replacements. I was happy to see one of them the sent me had only 10K hours on it. The others I had received were around 30-35K hours. All running well at the moment about 9 months later and no bad sectors.

Back in 2017 I bought 5 refurbished Hitachi Ultrastar 3TB drives for $48 each on eBay. I still have all 5 running for backup storage. All of them are currently over 75K hours now. Just did full sector scans last week and all are still at 100%!
Jun 30, 2025 05:32 AM
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PinakoJun 30, 2025 05:32 AM
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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.
Interesting. The longer warranty wins my vote. Anything I want to keep gets stored redundantly with encryption anyway, so I'm essentially buying 5+ years of storage. I have several 14 TB WD Ultrastars from the previous goHDD deal, and fortunately have not had to make a warranty claim yet.

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charlesp2000Jun 30, 2025 09:52 AM
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Quote from Pinako :
Interesting. The longer warranty wins my vote. Anything I want to keep gets stored redundantly with encryption anyway, so I'm essentially buying 5+ years of storage. I have several 14 TB WD Ultrastars from the previous goHDD deal, and fortunately have not had to make a warranty claim yet.
who do you use to encrypt? open source stuff or what?
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