Hi, found these highly regarded new HDD's (at least from what i seen here), makes out to be more value compared to when its Refurbished but $3 more than previous New deal
There is also the ST16000NM002G 12Gbs for $257 but this has SAS interface and not SATA interface
Both are 7200RPM according to this sheet
You can buy only 1 using ShopPay as described by Smigit and you can use Paypal to order 1 by clicking more payment options as described by bazingaa
Just paid over $100 more per drive for these off ebay (which were cheapest at the time).
I bought 2 to upgrade a reolink nvr as apparently it can handle 2 of these drives.
Are these CMR or SMR drives?
My freebsd ZFS NAS boxes do not like SMR if I need to do a rebuild.
Love a good sauce. :D
Any thoughts on how well this would work in a Synology NAS with 4x 16TB Red drives p/n WD161KFGX?
sorry I'm new but wondering why this is significantly cheaper compared to other stores that I found through google search? e.g. this one @369 https://neology.com.au/products/st16000nm001g . Any catch here?
These are gray market drives - no official Seagate warranty, and you can't be certain where they came from.
If you don't like those things, then feel free to pay retail prices from your local computer store.
And Neology is also grey market with only a 3 month or 12 month warranty option.
Have been keeping an eye out for a deal on these or the 18's for the next 2 bays in my NAS, but I take my eye off the ball for 1 day and miss this one :( anyone know the next best deal?
Just keep an eye on ED store for more stock.
There are a lot of sales on these drives, perhaps keep an eye out or subscribe to hard drives.
did anyone got invoice from them ?
Can't say from experience but other people have said so, even ones who got to just buy a single one.
Can anyone speak to the warranty process with these guys? anyone have any experience? I know there has been a lot of positive feedback with east-digital, but it would be great to hear from someone that has experienced it.
Assuming warranty wont be from the harddrive manufacturer but instead we will need to ship to china?
Had an issue with an ebay seller, selling similar drives with high ratings, but they ended up being fake with one dying, and to get it dealt with was painful. These deals are so temping that I am on the edge of trying again with this lot.
I believe they have a local return location in Berrimah, NSW and in the past they have paid fir return postage though that may or may not have changed.
Just got my tracking number shipping from Hong Kong.
Fedex or Hong Kong Post?
FedEx
Received one drive yesterday. Looks new and working OK so far, but only mid way into testing it.
They’ve also restocked but at $10 more, $269, which is still a good price.
Received mine yesterday and it was shipped from Sydney this time with Auspost parcelpost, DOM is May 2021 (my other drive is July 2021 but I got it from ED a long ago) and QR code verified. SMART shows 0 hours and now running an extended SMART test with Seatools, just in case.
if anybody interested the SAS I've been receiving are all dom 2019. doing testing on 5 hdd, all of them have a handful of slow read/write sectors between 8 to 20 (500ms. ie note 1 notch from being a bad sector). also ordered some wd ultrastar 16tb but yet to receive them.
How'd you go with the WD Ultrastars?
i bought used 2 x 18tb ultrastars to test b4 i order more. both were 2021 dom and 933days power on time. no bad sectors. no slow sectors. looks promising but with 2.55yrs usage :(. Crazy fast shipping beats 90% of sellers from OZ. didn't opt for express and was here in 4 days from hk. mind u bought another 3 x 16gb exos sas so 5 hdd in the box.
Oh nice, I ordered some ultrastars from them also and just waiting for delivery. Long power on time but being enterprise drives they should have a lot more power on time in them.
Sorry for reviving this thread, but I was wondering if anyone could advise whether the HP MicroServer G1610T supports this 16TB HDD?. If not, what is the maximum drive capacity the system can support? Thanks in advance!!
Specs say it supports up to 4TB but having a quick read on reddit suggests that people are using 12TB with no issues. I assume 16TB will be fine also.
Actually $3!
50% more than you said. OMG.
The Horror! Im ashamed i missed that, now i feel like an idiot (as i should for a rookie mistake)
Could be worse. I dropped a crap joke and forgot the upvote. Fixed.
lol its all good :)
I know this is an old post but has anyone had a negative experience with RMA?
I bought some drives from East Digital directly via their Shopify and one of the drives arrived with a dent on it. They accepted RMA and supplied an AusPost label when I requested, so not the worst experience up until this point.
However, the parcel still hasn't made it back to them. Same city, and it's been more than 3 weeks. I've raised an inquiry with Australia Post (after Yankee suggested that I needed to chase up multiple times and not accepting responsibility), and they called back pretty quick to say that they have to raise a request to investigate in their business portal as often the parcels aren't scanned as delivered to this particular business address type. Again, I put this back to Yankee, who finally said "ok we'll follow up".
I haven't seen any activity in the AusPost Tracking (much like I did when I lodged an inquiry - not sure if it's different if done via the business portal), and I ready to raise a PayPal case. If there's anyone else who has had a bad RMA experience with East Digital, this may expedite me raising a case than being further patient.
Shame… because I've bought 6 drives and I would like to buy 14 more.
Surely this is a negative AusPost experience with RMA ? If your drive hasn't actually got to the vendor, then your RMA isn't going to begin !
They are the cause of all this problem, sure, but the seller still has certain responsibilities.
Chasing up AusPost is one, and refunding / replacing lost in transit items is another. Especially so, since they supplied the return label.
Trying to push that responsibility on me and suggesting they cannot replace the drive if they do not receive it is unlawful.
I'm trying to understand from the OzB community if something like this is an isolated incident.
Ap AusPost rep suggested this particular address type can often miss parcel delivery confirmations. They may actually have the parcel.
If that is the case, has this happened to others? Is this a method ED use to try to get out of replacing faulty drives? This is what I want to know.
Just bought another 14tb to expand my shr raid to 20gb.