Seagate Enterprise 10TB drive. Fully tested refurbished hard drive, with no operating hours. Condition like new. Sold by Amazon Germany. Free shipping (no need for Prime).
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Hoping for some deals on a new drive, I need 2 drives in the 8-12TB range to back up data.
same
Saw this one, will wait till Friday to see anything more interesting pops up
A refurbished drive with no operating hours? Im not sure thats how this works. Of course, changing the SMART data to 0 days operation doesn't actually mean 0 days of operation.
0 hour operation is a bit of a shonky claim
Just wind your car odometre back from 200,000 to 2,000km and give it a vacuum. That's basically the extent of refurbishment thats gone on here.
the reviews tend to indicate these were bought by aws azure etc etc. as 'cold spares' but they got rid of 10tb drives as being too small in the mass upgrade and now have these unused drives sitting around doing nothing
Keep reading… most say they have scratching on sides indicating they were mounted. Some say drives ran hot, some say they were OK. Most say they were noisy. Might be a lucky dip.
How would these go as storage backup drives just on their own? Basically when I need to I usually just buy a pair of new external hdds (always in pairs so my linux isos have 2 copies) which was fine a couple of years ago as hdd prices kept falling but now it's becoming quite expensive so these look pretty tempting.
I don't have or need a NAS setup so I was thinking I could just get a 3.5" docking station to plug them into my pc as needed until full then they'd only get used at most a few times a year as I copy off stuff I want. Anyone with better knowledge of this type of hdd know if that'd work fine?
Get a RAID enclosure. Cheaper than NAS, quick setup and no maintenence. Bang drives in, set switch to raid 1 and turn on. Wait a while as drives will mirror. Now you have protection if one drive dies.
USB straight into your PC (or router if setup) to access.
There's a Terramaster D2-320 on Amazon Prime Day at a decent price.
Thanks but don't really want/need a raid either as as I said all my other hdds are proper external ones. I just copy the data to two hdds before deleting from my pc. These would be the only drives of this type I'd have so just wanted to know if they're be fine basically using them the same as I do my current externals via a hd enclosure or something.
You may need to initiate them for your OS. Consumer external HDD products are usually pre-formatted and prepared for compatibility but these may not be.
Methods vary depending on your OS and intended purpose but can be Googled.
You can use the enclosure without RAID if you need too.
how safe is it to order HDDs online, especially as far overseas as Germany? I've recently been in the mindset of buying in-store when it comes to mechanical drives due to the amount of moving parts they contain.
My thoughts exactly.. New Egg (in the US) had a great price on 16TB Seagates yesterday but I hesitated due to this uncertainty (also warranty having bought overseas - do they cover it?)
I picked up a 8TB refurb off eBay for like $85 around a year ago and FWIW it showed up looking practically brand new, ran a few tests and disk health was fine. Felt like a robbery, it probably had thousands of hours but functions fine. Hell, the 2TB HDD I put in the first computer I built in 2012 is still running. Survivorship bias maybe, luck of the draw, sometimes it’s worth the punt when brand new prices ain’t worth it
Yeah maybe I should roll the dice on a East Digital probably-just-had-its-data-wiped special.
How's the noise on these ones? The comments from the seller suggest the drives make higher than average noise, and some of the reviews say they're very loud.
Have 4 of these, results aren't impressive. It could be my setup, really don't know. Screenshot below.
https://files.ozbargain.com.au/upload/438527/114452/screensh…
Using UnRAID with this motherboard which uses a JMB58x SATA controller apparently, which runs at PCI 3.0 x2 (2GB/s maximum). Testing each disk individually with nothing else running.
Peaks: 223.12MB/s, 173.32MB/s, 140MB/s, 138MB/s
Lowest: 11.07MB/s
It'll max a 1Gbps connection, sure, but kind of defeated the purpose of getting a motherboard with 10Gbe.
I would say these are refurbs for a reason. Getting around it by using caching on UnRAID with a 500GB NVME SSD.
![[Refurb] Seagate Enterprise Capacity v6 10TB Internal Hard Drive $178.17 Delivered @ Amazon Germany via AU](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/19/857119.jpg?h=615c0bbb)
12TB drive also available for $210.36
https://www.amazon.com.au/Seagate-Enterprise-Capacity-ST1200…