10x Toshiba MG03ACA300 3TB Enterprise SATA $950 BO'd $800

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Boddy

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I tried a BO and best he would do was 900 so I passed...
Might still not be a bad deal.. but shipping to Canada isn't to cheap and our dollar sucks right now
I originally BO seller $850 and seller counter offered $900. After not accepting his counteroffer, the seller replied after a week that he was happy to accept my original offer of $850. I found a couple of sellers offering same in Australia, which will negate shipping costs for me. Drives are relatively heavy items.

Seller has free shipping to US states. Have you tried getting prices for shipping through 'Shipito' or other 3rd party service?
 

JayG30

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So, I ended up purchasing 6 of these at $85 a piece.
Offered $80, countered me with $85. So $510 for 18TB, ~$0.028/GB.
He added drives to the individual listing for me.
He appears to have more of these that he hasn't listed yet.

I ended going with these since my backplane is only a E1 not a dual port E2, and enterprise SATA should work fine with this backplane and ZFS. These are newer drives than the HGST or Seagate drives as well, which I don't know why but makes me feel a bit "safer". However the HGST drives I listed are pretty appealing at $135 for SAS and MTTF of 2M. I don't need the extra speed however, since it is for backups. The money I saved will go towards SSD's to speed up writes.
 

JayG30

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Sooo, I got these 6 drives in today. I installed them and they seem fine. EXCEPT FOR THIS ONE SMALL ISSUE. Power on hours for disks 0 to 5.

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Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   092   092   000    Old_age   Always       -       3497
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       33
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   098   098   000    Old_age   Always       -       860
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       71
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       26
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   092   092   000    Old_age   Always       -       3520
So two of the disk have been powered on for roughly 146 days. Almost 1/2 a year. One disk for 35 days.

Do I have reason to complain?
 

T_Minus

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Well they sure aren't "new" with 146 hours but that's not much time.
 

ItsChrisG

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Wouldn't worry about it -- at least you have passed the period most drives fail -- brand new.
At least now they've been proven as quality.
 

JayG30

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It's about 6 months of 24/7 usage.
It just shocked me since they were advertised "new", others had reported only minimal hours (60's), and the first disk I look at reports back showed 3520 hours.
 

Boddy

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Also, not to mention that 146 days for a HDD is virtually nothing :)
I estimate HDD lifespan to be 5 yrs, so it could be considered 10% of life potentially used. I believe the warranty on my enterprise blue WD drive is 5yrs.
Though it may not be much in the overall scheme of things, I would consider 6mth usage is considerable.

Seller's title 'New factory warranty Toshiba...' could be misleading or ambigious as 'Toshiba with full factory warranty'., rather than 'new drives with full factory warranty'. Seller has little other information on his site.

I wonder if these are actually factory refurbished drives? Considering seller is advertising them as 'new (other), I would not be happy to know they have 6months of use.
I would consider this as being misleading and I would consider opening an eBay case with this seller. I understand cost of returning items 'not as described' with eBay is the responsibility of seller.
Perhaps seller would consider a partial refund or return (your choice). I think it should be responsibility of sellers to ethically describe the truth about the products they sell.
 
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Angus

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Just wondering what are warranty dates for those that bought those? I am showing Jan 22 2019... seems good to me...
 

JayG30

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One of my disks died. Being sent to Toshiba for warranty as I type this. Warranty checked out good to 2019.

Decided to buy some spares of these to have aroound and found this;

Toshiba Enterprise MG03ACA300 3TB

Offered $70 for 2 and was accepted.
 

tby

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All of mine are still holding up so far, knock on wood, and I held back two as hot spares. They're in my detached garage / home office, I haven't been regularly monitoring the drive temps but air temps have been as high as 93F recently. One of the things that attracted me to this deal is that Toshiba put out a datasheet detailing the expected life at various temperatures and they went a good bit higher than what I expected the worst of a Georgia summer to deliver.
 
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CorvetteGS

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I'm so happy, just got the drives today and the Toshiba warranty tool shows I have 4+ yrs remaining on the warranty! For $20/TB I'm stoked. I'll be putting them in my server tonight for burn-in and testing.