20TB hard drive for $295

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Seagate Exos X20 ST20000NM007D 20TB 7.2K RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5in Recertified Hard Drive

Buy the Seagate Exos X20 20TB SATA 3.5" HDD ST20000NM007D at the lowest price with free & fast shipping. Get volume discounts and excellent customer service. Shop now!
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Just under $15 a TB but they're refurbished. The new drives on other places are going for around $440 or so, with other models and brands back up to $500.
Not the absolute best deal but so far I've only seen a 20TB hard drive for just under $400. First time I've seen a 20TB refurbished option, DOM on label shows from last month, just 30 days ago too! Not sure why something would be refurbished not even a month later?

There's also a refurb 16TB option which is a much better deal but if you're like me and can only connect 8 drives then this is the cheapest option for the most capacity in an 8 bay.
 
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Really solid deal on the 20TB as I've only seen 18TB at these prices. As far as why there are even are refurbs, DOAs and warranty drives on the very first batches would have been refurbed by now.

Pretty awesome to see drives this large at prices like this now. It means my little 6 bay Netgear ReadyNAS can hit a new all time storage record of 120TB in a small desktop nas. A lot of older NAS units can have extended life with these larger drives as long as their NAS software doesn't have any drive size limits (probably will hit volume limits on older units though).
 
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I would check the seagate website for warranty and firmware downloads. if there is still warrant and firmware downloads available then yes, it's a great deal.
(I think seagate exos are to hdds what intel dc ssds were for ssds)
 
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i don't trust these guys what so ever, i have no evidence of anything but they really rubbed me the wrong way once when i bought new drives from them and they were refurbished.

i have been looking for 18+ sata/sas and would rather buy from the guy selling the toshiba's for $266 on ebay (all same lot so it probably fell out of a truck) than buy from this company.
 
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geonap said:
i don't trust these guys what so ever, i have no evidence of anything but they really rubbed me the wrong way once when i bought new drives from them and they were refurbished.

i have been looking for 18+ sata/sas and would rather buy from the guy selling the toshiba's for $266 on ebay (all same lot so it probably fell out of a truck) than buy from this company.
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You say you have no proof then plug some ebay drive? Sketch
 
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geonap said:
i don't trust these guys what so ever, i have no evidence of anything but they really rubbed me the wrong way once when i bought new drives from them and they were refurbished.
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Was this transaction direct or via ebay, et al?
 
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fwiw, I've bought a bunch of 12TB SAS and nvme drives from serverpartdeals on ebay with no issue and those drives are still running smooth now.

that said, generally speaking I've had nothing but trouble with Seagate drives. i know thats very much ymmv though, but for me I would never buy seagate drives anymore.
 
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i know thats very much ymmv though, but for me I would never buy seagate drives anymore.
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Others have had similar experiences, but the modern exos line is definitely on par with the best from the rest. Something to consider if you didn't have exos drives.
 
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samir, it was an amazon purchase, i recently contacted them questioning warranty and had some weird reply, as much as i really need 18tb's right now, i chose to pay the 350 and get from newegg/provantage on the exos line unfortunately to go side by side with those toshiba's. i wish i could trust serverparts central and i'm sure a lot of their stuff is fine but they left a terrible taste for me.
 
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geonap said:
samir, it was an amazon purchase, i recently contacted them questioning warranty and had some weird reply, as much as i really need 18tb's right now, i chose to pay the 350 and get from newegg/provantage on the exos line unfortunately to go side by side with those toshiba's. i wish i could trust serverparts central and i'm sure a lot of their stuff is fine but they left a terrible taste for me.
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Gotcha. I wonder if their direct team is better than their amazon team. Yeah, I would be skeptical too if there was any funny business about the warranty as that's what makes these better than the sub $10/TB used drives that are starting to hit the markets.
 
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Samir said:
I'm usually blind, but I saw the following link in the first post:
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Seagate Exos X20 ST20000NM007D 20TB 7.2K RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5in Recertified Hard Drive

Buy the Seagate Exos X20 20TB SATA 3.5" HDD ST20000NM007D at the lowest price with free & fast shipping. Get volume discounts and excellent customer service. Shop now!
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Nope, not on my end.

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OK, this is just plain weird. This thread is not showing for me in the forum. I originally clicked on it in preview on the main forum page.
 
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Nope, not on my end.

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OK, this is just plain weird. This thread is not showing for me in the forum. I originally clicked on it in preview on the main forum page.
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Very weird. Try logging out and back in and different browsers and systems. If it still persists, could be some database corruption on the sth forum backend. :eek:
 
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Always great to have more info on companies.

The game these days seems to be to build up your rep with legit sales and then right when things take off, take the money and run--and then repeat later under a different name. It's the usual game from the developing world, now closer to home for your enjoyment. :rolleyes:

If there's any first hand issues with this particular deal, it will be nice to know about them for sure.
 
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What's a recertified drive anyways, and how are there already huge stock of these 20tb drives?
Are they somehow deemed b stock or something not good enough for direct sale?
 
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