pre-owned Hitachi HGST 8TB 3.5" 12Gb SAS 4KN HUH728080AL4200 $99

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Samir

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HSV and SFO
Funny thing is alot of their bays use SAS ports, but only SATA from the backplane to the mobo.
Likely for uniformity and keeps the cost lower in bulk.
Makes sense. Would be nice to see smaller 4 drive sas units. Reliable used sas drives are so much easier to find than sata.
 

kanadavos

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Saw this and figured I'd share it with everyone.

"Hitachi HGST 8TB 3.5" 12Gb SAS 4KN HUH728080AL4200 THIS IS NOT A SATA HARD DRIVE"

from ebay seller unixsurplusnet

Hitachi HGST 8TB 3.5" 12Gb SAS 4KN HUH728080AL4200 THIS IS NOT A SATA HARD DRIVE 672042186013 | eBay
UPDATE 4-7-2020

Apparently they are also selling them in lots of 32 as well.
Lot of 32x NOT A SATA DRIVE Hitachi HGST 8TB 3.5" 12Gb SAS 4KN HUH728080AL4200

US $2,848.00 which comes out to $89 a drive.

Lot of 32x NOT A SATA DRIVE Hitachi HGST 8TB 3.5" 12Gb SAS 4KN HUH728080AL4200 672042186013 | eBay
 
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XplodingData

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Seems they've pulled the item from ebay saying the seller made an error in the listing... (the single drive, not the multipack)
 
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llowrey

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I received 3 of these yesterday. Had a heck of a time with them. All three were showing 512 for the sector size (logical & physical) and zero total capacity. One had an additional odd behavior of timing out and causing "Spinning up disk..." to be logged in dmesg repeatedly.

I used sg_format (linux) to format them with a 4096 sector size, since these are 4kn, and they've been working fine since. I'm currently running my torture test on them but so far so good.

None of my other He8 drives (same part #) behaved this way but they are a bit newer. These three drives are all dated Aug-2015 but my other He8's are 2016 and 2017.

Here's a SMART snippet (from smartctl):

Code:
Manufactured in week 34 of year 2015

Specified cycle count over device lifetime:  50000
Accumulated start-stop cycles:  257
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime:  600000
Accumulated load-unload cycles:  1160
Elements in grown defect list: 0

Vendor (Seagate Cache) information
  Blocks sent to initiator = 591510579970048

Error counter log:
           Errors Corrected by           Total   Correction     Gigabytes    Total
               ECC          rereads/    errors   algorithm      processed    uncorrected
           fast | delayed   rewrites  corrected  invocations   [10^9 bytes]  errors
read:          0        0         0         0       1080       1509.045           0
write:         0        0         0         0     608474       9359.721           0
verify:        0        0         0         0      14929          0.000           0

Non-medium error count:        0

No Self-tests have been logged
 
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gregsachs

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I got one, week 29 of 15, 47 start/stop cycles and 850 load/unload.
7tb read, 25tb written.
The Xyratex xb-1235 is showing a fault in the slot, but disk is working fine so I'm not worrying about it.
 
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