Cheap Hitachi 2TB Drives (Data Center Recycle) $30! Free Shipping!

Was going to post that. I saw it directly on Newegg's site for the same price, so I picked up 5. ~10TB for 180. Sounds good to me.

HGST/Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 HUA723020ALA641 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive-Newegg.com

 

Sold out already.

 

Of the five I ordered from Newegg on ebay three are %100 health one is %98 and the last is %47.

EDIT: The packaging was steller!! Four were sealed in antistatic bags one was unsealed, they all came in special air filled plastic packages and individually boxed.

 

Back in stock at $39 now. Might as well wait I guess.

 

Welcome SirCrest! Always glad to see new members! Working on looking for some new deals. Will post if I find any! I thought I saw something a few minutes ago, but listing looked too shady. Will keep searching.

 

(irrelevant answer to a deleted post)

 

Yeah, I took a better look at the listing and realized it was for 1 drive, not for 5 so I deleted the post. It looked abit off too. I am looking around for some other deals and will post if find any. Sometimes they're hidden under the weirdest of sections on eBay. Can't tell you how many electronics I've found hidden in the "Home" section in eBay.

 

Is there a make year on the disk label?

 

Howdy.

Got my 5 drives from Newegg few weeks ago. Still doing great. Went ahead and got a 2yr warranty on them for 50 bucks total. Does bring the drives up to ~45 each, and I might not doing it in the future, but first time with these drives and thought I'd be worth it.

I don't have the means to go with buying extra as it's own form of warranty, right now they just store data and sit on my shelf until I get myself a 24-36 drive SM chassis finally.

 

One was from Dec 2010 the rest early to mid 2011

 

Ok! Found a seller with these Hitachi 2TB drives going for $33.50. Can confirm that seller accepts $30 best offer. Good luck!

As of time of discovery, seller had 79 left. (Heheh...it was 80, but I had to grab one!)

Hitachi Ultrastar A7K2000 HUA722020ALA330 2TB Internal 7200RPM 3.5" (0F10942)...

 

Are these sata2 or 3?

 

Hey Rainman, These are the older drives, so they are sata2. I do have bad news however.

Seller was shipping for free, and I just checked on listing, and seems like he just tacked on a $7.25 shipping fee. The one I just grabbed was free shipping when he accepted my best offer. Thank goodness I paid right away, or else he would have tacked on the fee to me too.

This puts the drive at $37.25 if you best offer him $30 bucks.

I'm not sure how you guys feel, but this would make it just slightly undesirable for me? I was planning on grabbing another 5 or so to create another raidz1 pool, but now, I don't know. Are you guys ok with paying the extra shipping? The older listing before this one was great because that seller always included free shipping. This seller wants abit more. What do you guys think?

 

Shipping kills the deal for me.

 

Hey Fritz! How ya been? I've been gone for a while!

Yeah, I agree, the shipping messed up the deal. I mean, at that price, you can look at a Western Digital Manufactured Refurbished or so. I even see deals for Seagate Enterprise drives (ST2000NM0011) that are excellent and durable for closer to $40 bucks, so not really a deal on these if they tack on shipping.

 

ah.....missed the good deal ( Should have grabbed 6, hopefully there will be next time...

 

Just survived Hurricane Matthew so all is well.

I'm waiting patiently for the next $30 deal with free shipping to come along. also open to larger capacity drives but 2TB seems to be the sweet spot as far as cost per GB goes. I still have lots of open slots in my SM846 storage boxes.

 

There's always a next time.

 

Has anyone seen anything under $32 with free shipping lately?

 

Didn't see anything on newEgg...

I was hoping this 2T HGST could go below $30 again...

HGST/Hitachi Ultrastar 7K3000 HUA723020ALA641 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive-Newegg.com