Funny thing is... a small local seller outside CA doesn't have to collect CA sales tax, but when they sell through eBay, eBay has to collect sales tax. Thanks to our politicians...
New or used? new HGST SAS 4TB is like $99:
$30 a drive is still a pretty good deal today.
that's excellent price. The last time I got 10 was for $470 a few yr back.
I think those are the megascale drives aren't they? Extremely reliable drives in my experience. Also runs cooler.
I have bought a couple boxes of drives from Michael and they are all still working fine. He is close by for me so I just pick them up and avoid the shipping hassle
I don't really trust "refurb" in the sense that I don't trust that the seller did anything special. but then again, i also don't trust manufacturer refurbs either, as I've received plenty RMA replacement drives that showed up with problems. i don't trust brand new drives either, as i've seen plenty of those with problems right out of the box. so, in the end, i trust no one... LOL... as long as they pass my burn-in testing, that's all i care about, new, refurb, used, rma refurb... don't matter.
Thank you for the reply! I've had drives after about 3-4 years not cooperate for too much longer than copying the data off. Then they would have read errors and whatnot.don't know yet. I've only been doing this for 2 yrs. i haven't had a chance to find out yet.... lol...
The first cd-r i burn in 1996 is still working flawlessly ....
That is probably not correct. All sellers have to now abide by sales tax laws of the various states. Before they were just ignoring them. It really should have been done a long time ago. A lot of brick and mortar companies were not able to compete on price because online stores skirted sales tax for years. And then 'use tax' was introduced for all the consumers of these 'tax free' transactions so they were supposed to report any purchases without tax and then remit the tax--yeah right. The consumers never did that. But businesses that didn't and that had an audit were hit hard with penalties.
I usually go off of what the current best price per TB is out there and then extrapolate for size. At $30/ea for 4TB, that's $7.5/TB and I think the cheapest I've ever bought drives out the door was around that price.
Let see how much he will discount
Did you keep the drive that's filled with data in an array 24/7 even after you are done filling them up with data and not taking them out and stash them away? or did you fill and then disconnect like in a back up manner? What i am doing is keeping them in the array only long enough to fill them up with data (right now taking me about 3-4 months to fill a 4TB) then taking them out and storing them away to minimize time on. I also only write twice to them (1st time is surface test. 2nd time is the actual data with small amount of space editing (delete and overwrite but only a small amount in the time on)Thank you for the reply! I've had drives after about 3-4 years not cooperate for too much longer than copying the data off. Then they would have read errors and whatnot.
Oh yeah, my first CDs from the mid 1990s are reading pretty well too--especially the Mitsui Gold ones--they're like brand new.
Any particular windows program you recommend? for a 4TB hdd i guess it would take pretty much at least 24 hrs to test out the whole surface write and read one cycle?[/QUOTE]
I didn't use any of the drives in a 24/7 way, but just as archive drives (they were all mostly usb drives). But if I let them sit for a few years, one good read was all I typically get out of them. I'm sure the drive is actually fine and if formatted again would probably work, but the current data tracks are not reading correctly. I've got 2x drives like that right now.
wondering what i should do . don't know if i am able to rotate 50TB of hdd space like that.... I can't go back to burning bd-r.... it just take too long to burn bd-rI didn't use any of the drives in a 24/7 way, but just as archive drives (they were all mostly usb drives). But if I let them sit for a few years, one good read was all I typically get out of them. I'm sure the drive is actually fine and if formatted again would probably work, but the current data tracks are not reading correctly. I've got 2x drives like that right now.
I still have some drives like that now (external usb units), but they are backups and at least every few months they are compared with the originals for bit rot. And I keep multiple backups so there's a constant rotation.
I just bought a few from him.. He added a discount code SPECIALS to discount $5 from each of the drive so $34 each. I guess i will see how many hrs /data written once i get them
Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring for me.