@Samir posted a ServerPartDeals hard drive price thread (
link) in May.
I got a manufacturer refurbished X16 16TB 1-2 weeks after I read this thread.
(Thank
@Samir, it is working pretty well and low cost.)
This drive had no warranty from Seagate by checking Seagate's warranty page.
Yep I saw those drives earlier in the year and it was immediately apparent they'd have no legit warranty.
Many people don't realize the various shenanigans that go on in the secondary market (used/ebay/surplus/refurb/liquidation) for IT products, and especially harddisks. I've seen resellers that bought bulk lots of datacenter pulls with years of heavy abuse, zero out the SMART table and even reprint new glossy labels for the top of the drive with a new manufactured-on date and higher-end model number.
Grey market IT resellers doing 'creative refurbishing' to capture more margin also realized better to sell direct from their own website despite the burden and expense of SEO to drive traffic to it, to evade accountability with seller metrics and bad feedback on markets like ebay and Amazon. Google "server parts" and the list is endless: "servermonkey, serverparts4less, storagepartsdirect, serversuperstore, serversupply, pcserverandparts, serverpartswarehouse, serverworlds, serverpartstown" on and on.
Not to imply ServerPartDeals is doing anything fraudulent, but some sliding scale variant of misrepresentation, and why you have to be skeptical buying "recertified" and secondary parts in general.
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