Refurbished HDD, Why VS Not ? ... Savings VS Risk ? (Add 2 year warrnty)

[micropage7]

Careful, on another forum an angry mob descended on me for suggesting that.

in here i dunno seagate is pretty good

 

[kn00tcn]

i've had 1 reallocated for years on a WD, it really doesnt mean much unless it's growing

someone linked OLD backblaze stats... umm they put new stats every year you know

someone asked about enterprise, backblaze says what they use, it's usually consumer (fine by me, i am not enterprise, i want to know how regular drives are, as a bonus their environment is more harsh than normal, potentially meaning better reliability for home uses)

certain series/models of seagates are much more error prone than others, it doesnt even matter if the overal total count of drives contains more failures than other brands, what matters is if the model you're choosing has those failure rates

speaking of models, pay attention backblaze's data, i mean REALLY look at it, some sets are a few hundred drives, others are a few thousand, do not think the percentages are equal, certainly dont condense the data into a crappy few paragraphs on some site's news article

if you're mirroring data, what is the point of warranty? replace the drive IF needed, are you going to wait to ship around replacements? what if the second drive fails, now you have no mirror at all

am i correct in seeing the price, $72+14 for 3tb? just to store some videos? that price may be getting close to new ones, or externals that you can take apart

edit: i am one to say seagate may suck at times, or that it's hard to trust, but i wont deny that they seem to have quieter drives & that the multiple seagates i've used/continue to use are fine (well, except a 2008 one that parks a lot during use for almost all its life, increasing the 'high fly writes' counter, but hasnt actually failed)

 

[Killerdroid]

in here i dunno seagate is pretty good

Each to their own I guess.

 

[neko77025]

am i correct in seeing the price, $72+14 for 3tb? just to store some videos? that price may be getting close to new ones, or externals that you can take apart

When I listed it they were on sale for 59.99 and the warranty is A 3rd party non S/N, So 2 warranties will cover any 2 of 5 that fail first. So, I would need too divide the cost of 2 across all 5.
14.00 x 2 =28.00 / 5 =5.60 + 60.00 = 65.60 Per 3TB NAS 7200rpm, New (NON NAS) 7200 rpm 3tb start at about 90.00. (Edited) Ea HD also had 300egg points $3.00 newegg credit use later on.
So really 62.60 Per Drive

Yes its only going too be video, But I still don't want to lose it. It takes A long time to RIP these DVD / BluRays. Also, going to use it for my HDhomerun Cable Card DVR.

 

[neko77025]

They arrived today. Ran Crystal Disk Info on them. 1 of them has bad Sectors, another seems too have issues saying on ... moved it to another bay and it did it again. Returning both of these for refunds and just going to do A Riad Z1.

BTW i dont think they are refurbished, they are just pulled from systems or something.

 

[kn00tcn]

a lot of stores call everything refurbished rather than saying where it came from (liquidated/offlease/customer return/oem supply/etc)

 

[cornemuse]

I bought just last week, two 1-T WD 2½" BRAND NEW hdds from Frys. $39 each. (Blues)
Fools on Craigslist askin' $50 or more for used, , , , ,

 

[P4-630]

Nice, I'm using 1 Hitachi spinner in my current setup, good drives.

 

[cat1092]

I have a total of 5 WD RE4's (the SATA-2, 32MB cache versions), only my first, a 500GB model was purchased brand new from Newegg, and I'll be the first to say, bearing the same 5 year warranty, these are indeed upgraded Caviar Blacks, heavier, dual core processors, less vibration. even the two used models that's 1TB each runs like champs. As does the two 500GB models that were new pulls from servers purchased from an eBay seller, going by the name of 'apethouse'. Check out his listings, he guarantees these, and also has some 1 & 2TB HDD's of the same type, though some bears the Dell or HP name, simply new pulls from servers. Stock may vary on any given day.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Western-Dig...-0Gb-s-3-5-Enterprise-Hard-Drive/111930324638

http://www.ebay.com/itm/WD-RE4-2TB-...141020?hash=item19f657f19c:g:qAEAAOSwrx5UWr-E

Just don't bother with any of the 'white label' junk of his listings, I would had been burned badly had eBay not stepped in & took action against another seller that I believe were connected with this cat (goHardDrive).

My best luck with HDD's has been WD all of my computing life, while most all of my computers now boots from SSD's (one a NVMe), I'll still use reliable HDD's for data & backup usage.

Cat

 

[cat1092]

a lot of stores call everything refurbished rather than saying where it came from (liquidated/offlease/customer return/oem supply/etc)

Add 'junk' to what's in parentheses!

At today's promo pricing of older drives (many SATA-3 models) to make room for current offerings, some of which may be of more quality, it makes little sense to purchase 'refurbished' HDD's from 3rd party resellers. Number #1 reason, it's whom is performing the refurbishing that counts.

'Recertified' is the proper term to look for, and what one will receive from a large scale OEM during a warranty swap. I have a 1TB WD Caviar Black (SATA-2) that for two years, never knew was recertified, until looking at the drive very close when removing from the PC & placed into a backup enclosure, where it's been since. Actually I scored big, because my original purchase was a 750GB model of the same drive, figured they were simply out of that size & being that the one sent in was only a couple of months old, was vibrating (probably due to the way Newegg then was shipping drives).

So in my case, have nothing to complain about, because the drive came straight from WD & took less than two weeks to get the 1TB model, which performed flawlessly for 3 years before deciding to use for backup. If needed, I'd not be afraid to place back into service as a data drive, I used to have one in each PC for backup only, then once these 'crypto' Malware threats were unleashed, went to externals only, with an occasional internal backup prior to making a huge change. A backup image is no good once encrypted by Malware.

While I don't purchase recertified drives directly, if needed, wouldn't be afraid to, as long as these are on the OEM sites.

Yet the 3rd party ones, to include Newegg/Amazon, no way, many times these comes from the same major eBay suppliers such as 'gohdd' & other sites (Marketplace Sellers). While in general, some are indeed good suppliers with fast free shipping, HDD's is an item to avoid purchasing from, unless stated 'New' in listing. If it says 'Refurbished', may as well be one of those 'White Label' drives.

If anyone believes the below 2TB HDD for $39.95 is 'New', one may as well believe anything that anyone says, or has zero experience when hardware purchasing. Years back, was bitten once, never again!

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-2-Terab...-DVR-PC-MAC-/110898107749?hash=item19d20ad565

I wouldn't trust this in a backup enclosure.

Cat