I recently bought a used hard drive (server pull) from East Digital HK, it was a good used drive with 1000 days use, 100% health after running checks and write tests. I use it to store my plex library only. I'm loooking to get a few more drives but East Digital have low or no stock right now. So I'm looking for other well known sellers, who sell used hard drives with good warranty.
I am aware of Neology, who post on Ozbargain from time to time, are there any others people can recommend?
Thats a bit more expensive then what I paid at East Digital, I bought a 14TB for $227. Although they have no stock right now (probably because they were so cheap) and amazon is still much cheaper than new.
Did you check ED’s FR section? 14TB barracuda pro for $277 or Exos for $292.
You might get lucky and actually get a genuine FR drive, or it might have been used for many years after the FR and had the smart values reset.
I do think prices have gone up. Even before ED pulled the “new” Exos drives from their store, they were a bit more than I’d paid only a few months prior.
Yeah, ill have another look, I only just purchased the first hard drive 3 weeks ago, prices have gone up.
@running on empty: pay attention to the DOM in the photos. some of the FR drives are from 2018. they are literally 6 year old drives. ED are still trying to flog drives from 2014 as new
I have not had great success with the FR drives from ED. Putchased 2x X16s 16TB about 11mo ago. Both faulty on arrival. They did swap out but one died yesterday; again offered a replacement..
So service seems good but maybe dodgy batch..
I bought 2x 16TB Seagate X16s from ED about 11 months ago. Both arrived faulty. Was promptly swapped out (i paid postage to Melb); yesterday one has failed again. They were fast to offer a replacement; shipping it back Monday.
I have since bought a 18TB from Umart ($619) as I needed the RAID5 up with redundancy; as its 7-10days to turn around the replacement. And honestly Im concerned the second one will die too.
My brother uses the WD via Metrocom (Amazon link above) without issue.
I've been using the refurb Western Digital DC HC550 16TB drives from Amazon as my go-to for the past six months:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Western-Digital-Ultrastar-7200RPM-…
A heads-up about the write cache: If you pick one up, check whether write caching is enabled. If it's disabled, return it and get another - performance will be severely impacted otherwise.
You can verify the write cache status with:
hdparm -W /dev/sdX