***NEW*** WD WD4001FYYG : 4 Tb SAS 6Gb/s : 154$

[nephri]

I found WD4001FYYG WESTERN DIGITAL 3.5'' SAS 4TB 6G LFF HDD HARD DRIVE

I know all folks here are focused on SSD now ! but for huge capacity storage a 4Tb spinning disks is always welcome.

Do you think is it a good deal ?

The seller has 100 availables, he accept OBO and theses disks are sells as new !!!

I'm thinking to buy a bunch of theses.

Séb.

 

[svt3391]

This lists $147.25 before BO and automatically takes $5 off over $100, so essentially makes it $142.25 before BO.

Same claims for new disk, and carries 1 year warranty.

Link here.

 

[nephri]

the seller from your link have few bad evaluations that says they sells hdds as new but they aren't !! i would avoid to buy from him by prudence.

 

[pgh5278]

Try these from esisoinc, they are a potentially more reliable seller

WD4001FYYG WESTERN DIGITAL 4TB 6G LFF 3.5'' SAS HDD HARD DRIVE

 

[nephri]

esisoinc is a good seller (i bought from him popular E5-2670v1)

But i have 2 issues:
- He send only to confirmed paypal address (i can't use a forwarder like shipito)
- Theses disks are used and not new.

 

[frogtech]

These disks are too old and have probably seen too much use to be a good buy for the price, I would rather get 2 TB for ~45-58 bucks that have manufac. date within the last 2 years with less than 1000 POH.

 

[nephri]

These disks are too old and have probably seen too much use to be a good buy for the price, I would rather get 2 TB for ~45-58 bucks that have manufac. date within the last 2 years with less than 1000 POH.

Do you says that for theses disks in general or for the used ones selled by esisoinc ?

 

[Terry Kennedy]

This lists $147.25 before BO and automatically takes $5 off over $100, so essentially makes it $142.25 before BO.

Same claims for new disk, and carries 1 year warranty.

Listing title says 1 year warranty, actual listing text says 90 day warranty.

Listing title says WD4001FYYG, drives on the right side of picture are all Seagate, drives on the left side look like HGST, though I can't say for sure.

I've run into this a lot, where the seller doesn't correctly identify what they're selling. I'd stay away.

As for the first listing, I can't tell what the drives are (bad picture) but that is not factory packaging.

 

[pricklypunter]

I would agree with @Terry Kennedy, I wouldn't buy from either of those suppliers

 

[nephri]

What do you recommand for spinning disks ?

 

[pricklypunter]

Now there's a leading question

Everyone has their favourite disk of choice, but I only use HGST Ultrastars now. You can often get them refurbished/ clean pulls at reasonable money from the likes ebay/ various IT recyclers and there's plenty of suppliers for new ones.

New 3TB SAS disks from Amazon are reasonable money just now: Amazon.com: HGST Ultrastar 3.5-Inch 3TB 7200RPM SAS 6Gbps 64MB Cache Enterprise Hard Drive 3 SAS 64 MB Cache 3.5 Internal Bare or OEM Drives (HUS723030ALS640): Computers & Accessories

I haven't really looked for 4TB ones for a while now, all the decent deals I have found are on the 3TB disks