Seagate Exos X22 20TB Manufacturer refurbished for $209 ($196 on ebay)

[rmtronix]

Apologies if this was posted before. I ordered 4 of these for $226 a few days back and noticed the price drop this morning to $209. Emailed support @ serverpartdeals for a price match and got the price adjusted within an hour which was great. All 4 hard drives passed the SMART long test with no errors.

Seagate Exos X22 20TB Manufacturer refurbished for $209



edit: This was $229 on ebay this morning and now dropped to $196 from same seller. This has one year warranty as opposed to 2 years if you buy from serverpartdeals directly.

 

[marcoi]

how loud are these drives? Do they run hot? I have some old WD red 8TB and thinking or replacing them but dont want loud clicking drives.

 

[rmtronix]

how loud are these drives? Do they run hot? I have some old WD red 8TB and thinking or replacing them but dont want loud clicking drives.

I did hear clicking noises when the server was booting up but after that it was normal. This was true for my older WD 14TB drives as well. I hear the sound of fans from my servers more than the hard drives. They are not running hot as well. I am replacing a 14TB WD disk with one of these right now and here's the graph showing the disk activity and temperature. It does have good airflow (with a 120mm fan) so that must be helping a lot.





I have couple of these in a windows server. When running crystaldiskmark, the temp went up to 33 degrees. The disk does have a good airflow.
CrystalDiskMark on windows server:


Temperature:

 

[myrison]

Thanks for posting the deal. I needed a big parity drive for my new unraid server and this fits the bill nicely.

 

[alaricljs]

No idea how they track their warranty, but through ebay they say 1yr, through their site 2yr.

 

[rmtronix]

No idea how they track their warranty, but through ebay they say 1yr, through their site 2yr.

If you buy through ebay, warranty is through All-State so you would not contact seller.

 

[alaricljs]

If you buy through ebay, warranty is through All-State so you would not contact seller.

Interesting, considering the Warranties section of the listing states it's through them (serverpartdeals). Yet also has that allstate stuff under the buy-now section.