NOTE: I no longer recommend buying from this vendor. based on the more recent experiences of other STH members, their HDD packing methods are not what they were when I first posted and as described below. It has also been harder and harder for STH members to get a response from Scott. I don't recommend at this point... Read thread for details.
=== ORIGINAL POST BELOW ===
A couple of weeks ago, I found this listing:
HGST 4TB SAS 3.5" 7.2K NL 12Gbs HDD HUS726040ALS214 PN 0F22968 | eBay
It says "new other", but I was a little skeptical as there are some ebay sellers that are less than honest. Anyway, I ordered a few to "try out" and I'm happy to report back that these drives are great drives and the seller did a great job.
Here's the box they came in:
As you can see, lots of padding and very secure. All HDD were in sealed anti-static bags. (the picture shows Supermicro brackets, but those were not included - just me adding them to prep them for burn in testing) They actually came with NetApp brackets that are easily removable.
Here's a photo of one of the drives:
These are HUS726040ALS214 (the "4" at the end indicates it supports Secure Erase). Here are the specs:
6TB & 5TB Hard Drive | Ultrastar 7K6000 | HGST
Here's the smart data I pulled from one of the drives:
As you can see, my burn-in testing has already written/read about 12TB on the drive with no errors. I also ran a short SMART test immediately upon power up to get the lifetime hours, and as you can see it shows 0 hours when the 1st SMART short test was run; so it would seem these really are unused brand new drives. Manufacture date shows December of 2016!
I've tested them in a Supermicro server with a LSI SAS9207-8i HBA and ZFS with no problems. I'm currently running badblocks on them for the last 49+ hours and no signs of problems:
I'm running badblocks like this: badblocks -b 32768 -c 256 -wsv /dev/sda
I'm still waiting for it to complete, but everything so far seems good.
In the past, I picked up *used* older HGST HUS724040XXXXXXX SAS or SATA drives for $85 and thought that was a good deal. For being brand new drives, and a newer model (HUS726040XXXXXX), a SAS drive, and less than 2 yrs old, I think under $70 is a pretty good price!
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
I've since gotten in touch with the seller directly to order some more of these. A guy named Scott responded and told me he can offer a better discount on larger quantity orders. So, depending on how many you need, these brand new 4TB SAS drives can be had for < $70 shipped! He mentioned $55 for qty >= 10. For anyone who wants these, you can reach Scott directly via email: scott (at) synergy-ind.com.
=== ORIGINAL POST BELOW ===
A couple of weeks ago, I found this listing:
HGST 4TB SAS 3.5" 7.2K NL 12Gbs HDD HUS726040ALS214 PN 0F22968 | eBay
It says "new other", but I was a little skeptical as there are some ebay sellers that are less than honest. Anyway, I ordered a few to "try out" and I'm happy to report back that these drives are great drives and the seller did a great job.
Here's the box they came in:
As you can see, lots of padding and very secure. All HDD were in sealed anti-static bags. (the picture shows Supermicro brackets, but those were not included - just me adding them to prep them for burn in testing) They actually came with NetApp brackets that are easily removable.
Here's a photo of one of the drives:
These are HUS726040ALS214 (the "4" at the end indicates it supports Secure Erase). Here are the specs:
6TB & 5TB Hard Drive | Ultrastar 7K6000 | HGST
Here's the smart data I pulled from one of the drives:
Code:
# smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [x86_64-linux-3.10.0-862.2.3.el7.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: HGST
Product: HUS726040ALS214
Revision: MS00
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 4,000,787,030,016 bytes [4.00 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Formatted with type 2 protection
LU is fully provisioned
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5000cca25d51e954
Serial number: K4HG1HJB
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-3)
Local Time is: Mon May 14 18:19:02 2018 PDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Current Drive Temperature: 38 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 55 C
Manufactured in week 51 of year 2016
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 50000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 5
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 600000
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 5
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Vendor (Seagate) cache information
Blocks sent to initiator = 429074312855552
Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 0 0 0 0 519 12215.927 0
write: 0 0 0 0 3282 13629.056 0
verify: 0 0 0 0 19 0.000 0
Non-medium error count: 0
SMART Self-test log
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
Description number (hours)
# 1 Background short Completed - 0 - [- - -]
Long (extended) Self Test duration: 6 seconds [0.1 minutes]I've tested them in a Supermicro server with a LSI SAS9207-8i HBA and ZFS with no problems. I'm currently running badblocks on them for the last 49+ hours and no signs of problems:
Code:
From block 0 to 122094329
Testing with pattern 0xaa: done
Reading and comparing: done
Testing with pattern 0x55: done
Reading and comparing: done
Testing with pattern 0xff: done
Reading and comparing: done
Testing with pattern 0x00: 34.42% done, 49:08:45 elapsed. (0/0/0 errors)I'm still waiting for it to complete, but everything so far seems good.
In the past, I picked up *used* older HGST HUS724040XXXXXXX SAS or SATA drives for $85 and thought that was a good deal. For being brand new drives, and a newer model (HUS726040XXXXXX), a SAS drive, and less than 2 yrs old, I think under $70 is a pretty good price!
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE!
I've since gotten in touch with the seller directly to order some more of these. A guy named Scott responded and told me he can offer a better discount on larger quantity orders. So, depending on how many you need, these brand new 4TB SAS drives can be had for < $70 shipped! He mentioned $55 for qty >= 10. For anyone who wants these, you can reach Scott directly via email: scott (at) synergy-ind.com.
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