All of the drives passed a SMART long test, which I planned on mentioning in the ad. I want nothing to do with returns or refunds in any way, shape, or form. Anything I can do to avoid paypal would make me super happy. I'll have individual SMART data for each disk, so the folks here can choose which one they want. I won't be able to sell any of them until I get the data off, though.I would suggest trying to sell them on here first as people are always looking for hdds and you don't have to deal with ebay seller fees
On ebay, just make sure to take into account seller's fees and shipping fees. Always buy signature confirmation with shipping and if possible take a picture of the lot of hdds if possible before shipping. You are much more protected as a buyer that way.
Depending on the status of the hdds you may have to sell some of them "as is" unless you want to retest all of them to make sure they work. Or at least state in your listing that not all of the hdds were tested or were last known to be working.
Hope that helps!
Your drives definitely become more desirable if you already have all the SMART data and model numbers available. Ebay and Paypal are intricately linked so you will be payed via Paypal unfortunately. And both ebay and Paypal take a cut of your sale. Search Google for an "ebay fee calculator". The link to "newlifeauctions" is pretty accurate to get an estimate of the fees you'd have to pay.
Drive pricing is another thing I'd like to ask about. They seem to be going for $75 a pop on eBay for the 2TB SAS drives and about $50 a pop for the 3TB SATA drives. I want to move them quick, so what prices would be good?I may be interested in a few drives depending on their size and price btw
Even though Paypal and Ebay does that mean that Ebay will stop using Paypal for purchases? I just can't see them moving away from that platform since they have been using Paypal for so long.
Looking at ebay posts and through slickdeals forums, I try to stick to below ~$25 per TB on new SATA drives. For example, a current slickdeals frontpage deal (5TB Samsung D3 Station USB 3.0 External Hard Drive $125 + Free Shipping - Newegg Deals, Coupons and Promos) is $25 per TB for an external drive that actually has a 5TB Seagate 5900rpm NAS drive inside and can be taken out of the enclosure and put inside a computer like normal. For used drives I've found 3TB in the same range you have listed: between $40 and $85 in some cases depending on the quality of the drive and how much usage it had on it.
And potentially 2 of your SATA drives depending on make/model.
Here's an example, and I doubt there's a warranty available.
[root@nas ~]# smartctl -a /dev/sdb
smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [x86_64-linux-3.10.0-123.20.1.el7.x86_64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SEAGATE
Product: ST32000444SS
Revision: 0006
User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Logical block size: 512 bytes
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 3.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5000c50034f36cff
Serial number: 9WM7HG4T000091520TV2
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS
Local Time is: Tue Mar 31 13:46:18 2015 MDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Current Drive Temperature: 38 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 68 C
Manufactured in week 35 of year 2011
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 10000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 164
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 300000
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 164
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Vendor (Seagate) cache information
Blocks sent to initiator = 1468999264
Blocks received from initiator = 746323156
Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 3238403234
Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 102685610
Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 66
Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information
number of hours powered up = 4832.18
number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 49
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: 1316895288 2 0 1316895290 1316895290 33737.476 0
write: 0 0 0 0 0 2598.697 0
Non-medium error count: 9
SMART Self-test log
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
Description number (hours)
# 1 Background long Completed - 5 - [- - -]
# 2 Background short Completed - 0 - [- - -]
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It'll be a little while. I'm still not certain I'm going to do it. It'd be nice to have SSDs all over the place, but at $0.30/GB, they're still not priced low enough for me to replace my drives with half-capacity drives. If I sold everything I have, I'd still need another $2500... And I wouldn't have a backup for the data.Stamps.com - Buy Postage Online, Print USPS Stamps and Shipping Labels Trial account. They even give you free postage.
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Anyway, I'm interested in 2 for testing and your old 1TB shoot me a PM when you decide if you're selling 1 by 1 or goign to try to sell ALL at once.