Sorry to necro a dead thread, but nobody ever found a solution to this, right?
A clutch of the 1.6TB versions of these just popped up on the used/refurb market, and I snagged a few for dirt cheap before I discovered this thread. They look to be barely used IBM-rebranded Micron S650DC-1600s...
...and wow, lo and behold, today, nine months after ordering those drives, I've received them in the mail, with a free spare thrown in for good measure.
Huh.
Nth-ing the suggestion to avoid them for posterity.
I had a handful of perfectly adequate experiences with BitDeals.tech from 2021-2022, spent about $1000 total and got a few good deals, and typically knew they'd be slow to ship but I'd probably have my order in hand within 2 weeks, maybe a...
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