Seagate Exos X18 16TB Hard Drive ST16000NM000J $392.24 Delivered @ Amazon DE via AU

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addict on 21/08/2024 - 10:16 amazon.com.au (289 clicks)
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For those looking for a new drive, and not wanting to risk buying through a riskier non-authorized seller this is currently your best option.

I have purchased from sellers with highratings, only to recieve fake drives, and not wanting to risk that again, so purchased couple of these, currently scheduled to arrive in Sept 6th. Drawback is this delivery time, but I am happy to wait, and be backed by Amazons return/refund policy.

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For those, that are open to a bit more risk, EastDigital seems to be the ozbargain favorite. I would avoid anyone else.
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  Deceptic0n on 21/08/2024 - 10:21

  Are these noisy on a Synology NAS ?

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    Tacooo on 21/08/2024 - 10:31

    +28

    Yes, but they'd work better inside a Synology NAS.

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    jonathonsunshine on 21/08/2024 - 15:43

    +2

    My Exos x16 16tb drives are very noisy imho. Compared to my Ironwolf Pros and some white label Hitachi I pulled out of WD Externals.

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  Tacooo on 21/08/2024 - 10:32

  +13

  How is everyone so scared of EastDigital still? Literally hundreds, if not thousands of drives shipped to OzB users via Neology's group buys, plus extra sales after, and now via Neology's store too.

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    TheSnyper on 21/08/2024 - 10:40

    -4

    For myself, because it appears they are being deceptive by advertising the drives as new, but with evidence to suggest they are old drives with the SMART data erased.
    I am very anti Seagate anyway due to past experience, but this just makes me even less likely to want to buy from them. They might be good with returns, but there does seem to be a significant number of them, even for Seagate.

    I would look more seriously at them if they were doing the same deals with WD, but even then, I'd like to know the truth about the usage.

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      Tacooo on 21/08/2024 - 11:35

      +4

      What evidence is there that they are refurbed? They state quite clearly these are white label drives and don't come with Seagate warranty, hence the pricing.

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        chris666 on 21/08/2024 - 16:02

        Seems the poster above is making stuff up

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      sombreserotonin on 21/08/2024 - 19:58

      +1

      Where are you getting any of this information from?

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      Nom on 21/08/2024 - 22:02

      it appears they are being deceptive by advertising the drives as new, but with evidence to suggest they are old drives with the SMART data erased.

      Evidence ?

      What evidence ?

      If you've got some evidence then let's see it.

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    chris666 on 21/08/2024 - 10:43

    +1

    Had no issues with mine

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      Bruceflix on 21/08/2024 - 15:43

      Nor with mine

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    addict on 21/08/2024 - 11:05

    I purchased 4 drives from a seller off ebay, with great ratings. all 4 turned out to be fake, (really really good fakes, but still fakes) & 1 died within a week.

    took me 2 months+ to sort through paypal escalation. There are so many of these fake ones out there.

    I store data that I dont want to lose on these drives, so I rather pay a bit more and not risk what would happen 1-2 years from now.

    If I need a drive for another purpose, I definetly try EastDigital next time.

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      tanksinatra on 21/08/2024 - 11:24

      +2

      what do you mean by fake? how do you fake a hard drive?

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        Smigit on 21/08/2024 - 12:18

        +4

        Ordered a hard drive and received a floppy disk.

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          Bruceflix on 21/08/2024 - 15:45

          @Smigit: Store some porn on it. Will make it hard in no time

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        addict on 21/08/2024 - 12:42

        +1

        My guess..
        it was physically a seagate hdd. but they update the firmware and show zero read right and update the serial number. then they resticker it. The challenge is they screwed up the zeros and letter 0s printed on the drive and shown when reading the drive. Also the QR code, did not show a unique code including the serial number. it just went to a site where you can enter the serial number. The authentic drive QR codes will lead you to the seagate size, and the link will contain the serial number. When you typed in the corrected serial number the website shows it having still a year or two or warranty.

        I am curious of the people that bought from East Digital whether the QR codes work? anyone?

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          bazingaa on 21/08/2024 - 13:29

          @addict: EASTDIGITAL drives are legit, some have checked the serial numbers and Seagete site was showing something about remaining warrenty. I got one while ago but can't remember whether I have checked mine, another one is on the way from thr recent deal. I only checked SMART and some read-write checks.TBH, their packaging is awesome and drives arenwell protected.

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            jonathonsunshine on 21/08/2024 - 15:45

            @bazingaa: +1 for packaging. I kept the box that arrived and am storing some other backup hardrives in it.

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            Retarded Lunatic on 22/08/2024 - 15:15

            @bazingaa: hahahaha how can they be legit when they have a remaining warranty—— you buy new you get warranty (not remaining warranty)..

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          TheMoose on 21/08/2024 - 20:58

          @addict: Just bought 2 x 12TB drives off them.
          The QR codes work and give correct results.
          I ran disk surface checks on them both for 24 hours and zero errors/issues.
          One of them is now in my NAS - seems fine. The other is a spare in case it's not. :-D

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            Horacio on 22/08/2024 - 01:53

            @TheMoose: May I ask the date of manufacture printed on the drive?

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    sombreserotonin on 21/08/2024 - 19:59

    No Clue. They've been great lol.

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  seriousquokka on 21/08/2024 - 10:37

  As far as I know, Amazon DE is only the importer, not the seller.

  If you go to the Amazon DE site for this product, you'll notice that only three third party sellers are selling these drives, the seller(Fexyshop) having listed price closer to OP's deal has only 61% positive rating. I just hope we are not getting from them. I have never bought anything from Amazon DE, and would love to see OP share your experience in terms of the packaging once they arrive.

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    addict on 21/08/2024 - 10:52

    +1

    if you put in a germany post code you get other sellers as well.
    https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Seagate-Enterprise-Hyperscale-Lat…

    I am not sure how it works, but definetly I will post here. I purchase similar drives from Amazon US through Amazon.com.au and it was a great experience. Seagate packaging and all!

    That being said.. any hint of these being fake and I will be calling amazon up for the return.

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  KangaDrew on 21/08/2024 - 12:53

  Any suggestions for a decent HD enclosure to slap on to this drive? Please and thank you :-)

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  bazingaa on 21/08/2024 - 13:32

  +1

  mate, you can buy 2 drives from EASTDIGITAL for little more and even do RAID1 if you are not that sure of them :)

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  Justaddgrum on 21/08/2024 - 15:32

  Still waiting on more 20tb hdd sales! My nas full of linux distros is getting full :O

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  sombreserotonin on 21/08/2024 - 19:58

  East Digital Sells these for almost half price… This is not a deal imo.