Super cheap 18TB hard drives

[BackupProphet]

Pardon Our Interruption...

 

[Thomas H]

What is the Power-On Hours on these?

 

[frameshift18]

Tempting but doesn't look like there is any manufacturer warranty since they are refurb. Checked a few S/Ns.

 

[poots]

this thread seems to indicate that these are CMR / Perpendicular drives: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seagate/comments/l4xdkn

 

[NobleX13]

Seller does not accept returns, and has no other non-refrigeration related items for sale. Caveat emptor.

 

[Samir]

$6.94/TB for singles those doing the math, $6.25/TB 4x or more.

 

[itronin]

nice price and sort of sadly I just bought a slew of 16TB for about the same price. yikes. I wanted SAS though.

 

[Samir]

nice price and sort of sadly I just bought a slew of 16TB for about the same price. yikes. I wanted SAS though.

Yours probably had a warranty too. SAS > SATA any day of the week imo.

 

[itronin]

Yours probably had a warranty too. SAS > SATA any day of the week imo.

 

[frameshift18]

Someone scooped up 120 of these

 

[autoturk]

here's the SAS equivalent for $10 more than OP from the same seller: Seagate 18TB 7.2K SAS 12G 3.5" Enterprise HD (not SATA) ST18000NM004J-WL | eBay

 

[Samir]

Someone scooped up 120 of these
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2PB ftw.

 

[Samir]

here's the SAS equivalent for $10 more than OP from the same seller: Seagate 18TB 7.2K SAS 12G 3.5" Enterprise HD (not SATA) ST18000NM004J-WL | eBay

$7.5/TB for those doing the math.

 

[Churchill]

These are engineering samples. Do they work just as well as other drives? Sure, i've got 30 6TB IBM ES drives and haven't had a problem with them. That's the risk you take here with these type of disks. The price is great, you buy N+1 because sure as shit one or more of these will die and the support is literally chucking it in the trash.

 

[Cruzader]

These are engineering samples.

They used to make samples with the release model part numbers?
Sounds like a horrible idea when it comes to seperating them during testing revisions.

All the early testing samples ive encountered for production testing have had completely different skus and labels clearly stating its a testing sample.
Not registered with warranty and marked with gold release production info etc

 

[Koop]

These are engineering samples.

How can you tell? Just asking for my own education.

 

[Samir]

How can you tell? Just asking for my own education.

Yeah, wanting to know the same here too.+

 

[Churchill]

Sorry for the confusion as I was commeting on the SAS disks that stated "OS" on the label posted by @autoturk and not the original ebay link

The first ebay auction has the appearance of being a normal regular drive.

 

[Cruzader]

Sorry for the confusion as I was commeting on the SAS disks that stated "OS" on the label posted by @autoturk and not the original ebay link

The first ebay auction has the appearance of being a normal regular drive.

Based on what? OS does not mean its a engineering sample and i dont really see any other markings on the label indicating it is.

The model/part numbers on it is listed as a gold/final release OEM spec.

 

[nabsltd]

OS does not mean its a engineering sample and i dont really see any other markings on the label indicating it is.

"OS" means "off spec". Usually, one or more platters of a higher capacity drive didn't pass testing, so those platters are disabled in firmware and the drive is sold with lower capacity.

Personally, anything that made a platter not pass testing is not something I want spinning around in a drive with my valuable data.