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4TB WD Red is $300 which is fucking nuts. $700 for a +20TB drive is actually cheap.
Oh they're used. Uh
Yeah, I looked up the 20TB drive new, it's $1000.
Actually $700 for a 20+ TB drive is insane, even new. I use 24TB drives in my media server, and I was able to buy them for $480 this time last year. I'm crossing my fingers that I won't have to buy more until the price goes back down.
ssd cost roughly the same as cheapo hdd of same low volume (1-2tb), it's kinda funny
(probably signifies that problem is very weird, 9 plates hdd uses proportionally more reading heads and plates, so wtf is that price scaling (not actuators, not magnetic heads, not plates) i cannot tell, they use minuscule amount of ram, pcb is trivial itself, maybe the spinning drive? but that would be hilarious)
At these rates I could break even while doubling my storage space by selling my smaller drives.
Recertified doesn't actually mean used though, they are certified to meet the same quality standards as a brand new one.
Serverpartdeals blog post about this
I've seen different claims from different sources whether recertified is as good as new.
A seller wouldn't be my first place for unbiased information.
manufacturer recertified afaik is two categories. one can basically be returned droves that were never used because some company bought them in bulk and never used it. or returns of drives that are broken new in box, and then fixed, then usually new white labeled. recertified usually consists of drives that were overall, rarely/never used outside of testing for functionality.
refurbished usually is lower standard and usually used drives backed with some warranty.
if its seller refurbished or recert, thats basically useless info imo. cant trust that over the oem.
Server parts deals has a pretty good reputation in the data hoarder community. I’ve got 3 of their drives and at work we have 6. Knock on wood, but we’ve had no problems with these drives over the past couple of years. One was DOA but they replaced it quickly. And better DOA than after it’s in the array for a month.
Also these are enterprise drives so outside of being DOA I have pretty high faith in their reliability.
I miss being able to get two 14TB drives for 550€ in a WD my book duo.