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from GoHardDrive? They have good ebay feedback. It looks like their warranty is 5 years on enterprise drives.
Could have been shipping damage. I have had that happen with Newegg shipping drives...
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I bought 3 of these drives from this vendor , but on Amazon. The 3 drives had relatively low hours on them. I let them run in fit a few days before trying to create a pool. After 1-2 days, one of the...
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Serverpartdeals.com... Manufacture refurbs, look no further.
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Fwiw these have been this price for at least a couple months and likely longer - I've ordered 2-3 at this point with great results.
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Any thorough test is going to take time. As the drives get bigger but not all that much faster, the tests take even longer (days). There's no getting around this unless you just do a basic test like...
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This. Drive failure and reliability topics always make HDD SD threads interesting.
My recommendation, given that these drives are enterprise-grade, is just BUY (either WD, Seagate or Toshiba) if...
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Not sure why you quoted something that backs up my statement... 2 copies of your data on different media
https://www.seagate.com/blog/what-is-a-3-2-1-backup-strategy/
Specifically when it...
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Nope. What I said is that if your array blows up, you still have 2 copies. You might see things differently, but to me "blowing up" means the whole thing is gone. When I said "drive/array" I didn't...
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I'm getting the 12TB drive on newegg. I was considering putting it into an external drive case I already have ( no fan), but I bet I would need a case with a fan. I'm thinking the heat would kill it.
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I don't know about that
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/helium-filled-hard-drive-failure-rates/
There haven't been mass reports of drives failing due to smart helium drop as far as I know.
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Yea definitely would be a bad idea.
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Most of this is wrong, just FYI. Actually I take that back, this entire thing is wrong. MTBF is 2.5 million hours, that’s the mean time for an average drive to experience a failure. That includes...
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Because many of us have drives in arrays for media, VM, etc storage targets. Buying used enterprise is a great way to get a deal on a largely reliable drive. And if a drive dies, we have parity...
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I've bought many new consumer-level HDDs that crapped out after a few months. Enterprise HDDs are made with much higher quality components, and hard drives follow a "bathtub curve" in reliability....
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It is USPS.
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Can I comprehensively check health of these drives right inside a Synology box? I don’t have any other ways to connect 3.5” disks at home. Please advise
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You can do that from any OS using basic command line arguments. In Windows it's just the dir command, a "greater than" arrow, and a text file name as output (plus any optional switches).
dir >...
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Is there a app or software that can take a snapshot or list (txt file) of folders and files from a failing hard drive.
Sort of a table of contents
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My refurbished HGST 3GB and 4GB drives have run in Unraid for nearly a decade now. Finally replacing with higher sizes. At $35 a drive, they were a bargain.
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get some cables for when you need to connect a hard drive. It's a time saver for the few times a year you might need it.
Less than $20 bucks. I have whole bunch of drives, and it came in handy. I...
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Storage is a bit of an oddball in that people who buy more than a drive or two tend to have a bunch of drives in an array with ZFS, unraid, etc and so unlike vacuum cleaners, buying multiples what...
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Would either the 10TB or 12TB HDD work in a Ubiquiti NVR? Appreciate the help if someone is able to confirm!
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I buy used drives all the time and used them in RAID 5 or RAID 6 configurations for redundancy. Haven't had a single one fail yet. My favorite go to is ServerPartDeals and they do have warranty even...
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yeah true enterprise server drives are not made with any thought to noise because server rooms are already noisy from all the fans.
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I bought 4
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Did they ship via USPS or UPS?
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You may have heard it differently that me. I've heard it in such a way that you can have one drive/array blow up, and you still have 2 copies of your data. Taken from Backblaze:
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If would share, what kind of rig do you have running TrueNAS w/the 8 drives? I've got an older Netgear NAS 104 with 4X 4TB that I need to likely replace/replicate.
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anyone bought before, is it worth a shot?
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An external enclosure will cost you $25 to 30 bucks, and you will definitely need it to have its own power for this and pretty much any 3.5-inch hard drive. Just about every enclosure I've seen for...
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Late to the party. I was an Easystore shucker for years. Tried the refurb route with a new server and never looked back.
2 redundant drives in every array with the standard 3-2-1 backup method is...
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There is no evidence so far to indicate that Helium drives lose their seal and cease to function any sooner than their air counterparts. There IS however reason to use helium instead in the first...
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Odds are probably much higher that one of these drives will die over a new drive. But the odds of losing your data is much lower if you buy 2 of these drives instead of one new one.
The...
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I feel like refurb drives are different from like refurb macbooks or some other refurb category that gets posted on here a lot because A) the drives wear out and B) there is basically no warranty. So...
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In the same boat. I have 2TB and 3TB refurbished HGST Ultrastar drives as my main drive in a couple systems for several years without a problem. I just upgraded to a 14TB Ultrastar. This drive is...
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I have a bunch of HGST 3TB and 4TB that are retired data center drives. They are now old drives. They have been very reliable. The lower RPM versions run much cooler.
I also have at least 4 of...
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"but at 50c they are cooking as I stated,"
Based on what exactly?
Because the specs for my 10-14TB drives have an operating temperature range listed up to 65 degrees C based on the spec sheets....
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These drives are plain Used. nothing refurbished about them. no "renovation" performed. Stop saying they are refurbished.
if you're considering in buying, these are heavily used with lot of hours...
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So no real info.
I have several and smart helium level never budges, so either it's stable or it's wrong. Either case there doesnt seem to be any studies on this so the warning is based on...
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I've been running eight 12TB refurbs from serverpartdeals on my TrueNAS system for 3 straight years and have monitoring tools on the drive and they're still healthy. Much more economical to buy...
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