Ebay - used HGST HC520 SATA 12tb with vendor 5 year warranty - $83 - sketchy vendor warning!

[MountainBofh]

HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 12TB SATA 6Gb 256MB 3.5" Enterprise HDD- HUH721212ALE601 | eBay

[ G01-1549-CR-5YR ] HGST Ultrastar HC520 HUH721212ALE601 12TB 7200RPM 256MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Helium Datacenter Hard Drive (Certified Refurbished) - 5 Year Warranty. Why does helium make a diference?.

www.ebay.com

Vendor is doing some sort of coupon that appears to be good for 10% - code is YUSPGIXZ7GVD2D7M

 

[BlueFox]

Just a reminder to everyone that GoHardDrive has a reputation. Feel free to search the forum on the topic.

 

[MountainBofh]

Just a reminder to everyone that GoHardDrive has a reputation. Feel free to search the forum on the topic.

Interesting - I did a quick google search and yeah they do have a history.

 

[Koop]

Just a reminder to everyone that GoHardDrive has a reputation. Feel free to search the forum on the topic.

I've purchased 10TB drives from them and they didn't wipe SMART or anything like that. Clearly showed they had a ton of hours on them. So I dunno, maybe they stopped messing around with it due to the complaints?

 

[GhettoSuperstar]

Just letting everyone know, the code works on (limited) other drives they sell. 10tb for $67.

 

[Bert]

Is it a good idea to jump to 12+ TB drives or stick around 6-8TB for the increased I/O. For some reason, these drives are larger in capacity but their sequential read/write throughput is same as smaller 4TB drives. It will take 1+ day to fill them in or run checksums etc.

 

[EasyRhino]

Personally I would buy the 14TB (SAS, though) from techyparts to get 2 more TB and save on tax.
Toshiba MG07SCA14TE 14TB 7.2K 3.5" SAS 12Gbps 512e 256MB Enterprise HDD *Grade B (techyparts.com)

It seems that goharddrive has gotten somewhat better about clearly labelling their drives if they are used or not? Although I would still assume that anything that they sell as "refurbished" is merely a used drive perhaps with wiped SMART values. But they have at least existed for several years, shipped real product, and anecdotally processed returns under their seller warranty.

If they ever were advertising a 'new' hard drive I would just be skeptical on that one.

 

[Samir]

Just letting everyone know, the code works on (limited) other drives they sell. 10tb for $67.

12TB at $6.91/TB and 10TB at $6.70/TB. Definitely some nice prices for something with 5yr warranty.