1y ago

12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com

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HGST Ultrastar He12 HUH721212ALE601 0F29596 12TB 7.2K RPM Power Disable SATA 6Gb/s 3.5" HDD

Has anyone bought from here before? Looking to upgrade my NAS drives.

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Approx 35k power on hours. Tested with 0 errors, 0 bad sectors, 0 defects. SMART details intact.
That’s about 4 years of power on time. Considering they’re enterprise grade equipment, they should still be good for many years to come, but it is worth taking into consideration.
I’ve bought from these guys before, packaging was super professional. Card board box with special designed drive holders made of foam; each drive is also individually packed with anti-static bags and silica packs.
Highly recommend.
- All my server drives come to me with these many hours and truck on for many years.
They’re generally highly regarded.
- Censorship of words makes me not know which definition of regarded you are using.
  
  I too like posting cryptic, non-detailed complaints with minimal to no explanation, logic, or rationale for the express intent to sow confusion and chaos while simultaneously standing for nothing
  /s
Reposting as top level comment also: these are PWDIS drives: if you’re not using them somewhere with sata 3.2/3.3, you need to use an adapter for the power plug, or some tape, to block pins 1-3 (3.3v) as supplying it to these causes them to reset. Might be worth doing the taping anyway, if you’re using an enclosure or cage (where you can’t use the adapters) Just be aware.
- When I bought some of these earlier this year, the re-seller included an adapter that blocked those pins to prevent the reset issue. Didn't know what they were for at first and almost tossed them. (I should have read the included slip of paper)
  
  As someone who regularly ships items with a slip of paper meant to be read, this was infuriating to read. Lmao
the drives I’ve purchased from them in the past have been great considering they’re used server parts.
- considering they’re used server parts.
  That really should be in the title...
  I dunno, I'm one of those people who never stops using a drive until it breaks, and they never really break anymore. Oldest in my current PC is probably 20 year old HDD.
  So yeah, these probably are fine and will still last a long time. ~~But for like $20 more you don't have to worry about losing the data on it.~~
  Edit:
  Apparently prices just haven't changed in half a decade or longer? I knew prices went up for COVID, assumed they went back down at some point.
  
  Where do you get a 12 tb drive for $100?
  
  Not to sound snarky or anything, but since when do prices go down? If people were willing to pay the inflated price, there's no incentive for them not to make that the new standard.
I just bought two of their 12TB for $100 each and they were the manufactured recertified. One had like 8 hours run time and the second had like 36 hours so brand new for the lifetime of a hard drive. So far no issues. Also beware these drives are very loud.
- Refurbished drives get their SMART data reset during the process, they absolutely had more than that originally.
  
  Oh wow I did not know that.
  That's absolutely terrifying. Like resetting the speedometer for used cars.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
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NAS Network-Attached Storage
RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage
SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 5 acronyms.
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What’s the catch? Is there a catch?
I have six 14TB drives in my NAS from serverpartdeals. Never had a problem with any of them.
Read it as 120TB at first and my eyes nearly jumped out of their sockets.
- 12 TB for $80 is a deal for me! My 8tb was around $200 to $300 in 2021
  
  It's "refurbed" by the seller. It also says it has approximately 35,000 hours on it. That's 4 years of continual use. I wouldn't trust that with anything.
Do HDDs noticably degrade when powered off? I'm thinking about getting one of these for cold storage backups. Also, how much of an impact does repeated power cycling have on lifespan?
I really wish we had a service like this on Europe.
I know they ship to Europe. But shipping costs are prohibitive for small buys.
- Look on eBay, there are oftentimes some from server farm providers like hetzner
How noisy are these? I have a pair of shucked WD drives that should be equivalent to reds, and they’re pretty noisy in my otherwise quiet home office. Given they’re only 8TB, upgrading them to SSDs for full silence is something in considering as soon as the pricing and availability permits.
Interest to know this too, deal appears too good...
I've bought a fair amount of drives from them and have had no issues, just today I got in some seagate exos 2x18 drives from them and their packaging was as professional ever.
I * think * those were the brand I bought?
Regardless, 80 for 12 TB is a steal.
- How are the doing so far?
  
  No issues what's so ever. Have them in a four drivE QNAS. I was a bit concerned about them being cheaper drives initially but after I got them installed I literally haven't thought about them again in terms of reliability.
  0 complaints and they seem to be doing about as well as some more expensive drives might be.