FS: Western Digital RE3 500GB SATA hard drives - used and new

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BLinux

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I have 11 more of these Western Digital RE3 500GB 7200RPM SATA drives for sale (WD5002ABYS). The previous ones I sold were spare units that were burn-in tested but never used. These are different condition: 8 of them were used in a server environment for quite some time and pulled when the server was decommissioned, and 3 appear to be almost brand new. I will price the accordingly and post some details of the individual drives. You pick what you want, and give me a zip code and I'll help you figure out the shipping.

Here are the 8 used ones:
1) 10667 Power-On hours, 0 errors - $15
2) 13325 Power-On hours, 0 errors - $15
3) 13324 Power-On hours, 0 errors - $15
4) 13325 Power-On hours, 0 errors - $15
5) 13331 Power-On hours, 0 errors - $15
6) 8495 Power-On hours, 1 reallocated sector $10
7) 4907 Power-On hours, 0 errors - $15
8) 426 Power-On hours, 0 errors - $20

Drive #6 got that reallocated sector about half-way through its life, and has been working fine since; I'm pretty confident it's not a growing problem, but I've priced it accordingly. I think drive #8 must have just been pulled from spares a little while before the server was pulled, because our burn-in usually puts about 300 hours on the drives, so basically its had very little use.

Then there are the following 3 4 drives, that I'm not 100% certain about because their power-on hours are extremely low, which I suspect means they are basically brand new. I don't usually leave brand new drives that have not been burned-in in the spares cabinet, but there they were! Since their condition was unknown, I did at least plugged them in and ran a short (2-3 hours) test writing to every sector of the drive to make sure they were good; and they are:

a) 80 Power-On hours, 0 errors - $25
b) 79 Power-On hours, 0 errors - $25
c) 77 Power-On hours, 0 errors - $25
d) 78 Power-On hours, 0 errors - $25

PM me if interested. Let me know which drives you want and your zip code. Anyone local to San Diego, CA is welcome to pick them up to avoid shipping costs.

 
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BLinux

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Just FYI, these hard drives weigh over 1 lbs each, so there's no really cheap way to ship a single drive. The shipping costs are more reasonable if you're interested in several that might fit in a flat rate box or some other ground service.
 

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drives (a)-(d) are sold. (1)-(7) remain available. 13331 power-on-hours is about 555 days (about 1.5 years), so these should have plenty of life left.