Thoughts on this ebay find? need 5 of them but they look sketchy

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badatSAS

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He says he has a 14 day return policy - isn't there a SMART value with the number of hours on?

BTW thought your name looked familiar, I was just watching two auctions of yours on ebay, the LSI-9212 and the HP SAS Expander - you should put stuff like that on the FS/FT section here first. I would have gladly paid the amount that they ended up going for minus the 9% ebay fee, or you could have sold here for the same price potentially and made another 9% =)
 

wyluliraven

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I would not touch those damn things with a 15' male porn star johnson. No damn way.

I'm all for cheap hardware but that just screams sketchy. Zero inclination as to how they have been handled, which firmware is flashed on them, in addition to what you said about hours and environment. Also keep in mind, with no serial number nor stickers on the drive, RMA is a no-go.

He also has the 4TB variants for sale too, all labels scratched off, dinged up drive covers... He also has tons of software listed... Hell to the no.
 
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badatSAS

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At least with the dinged up covers you know they were hit with something, as opposed to the WD Red's that newegg has been shipping that must have had their container roll over 20 or 30 times on the ship they came over on, and then used as soccer balls for two days in the warehouse. And then UPS does what they do between there and your house.

100% feedback over 1000 transactions in the last 12 months, including multi-thousand-dollar items? this guy makes stuff right if he messes up
 

Patrick

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I thought that is what happens to submerged in floodwater 3TB SAS drives?
 

dba

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I recently had a "used hard drive" buying experience, and it wasn't a good one. I purchased twelve used enterprise-grade drives from a very reputable seller. These drives were part of a fairly expensive HP array, and were almost certainly deployed in a data center with excellent power, cooling, and so on. In other words, they were well cared for.

When they arrived, one drive was dead. A second drive started throwing errors as soon as it was formatted. A third worked just fine until I put a load on it. A fourth drive started throwing errors after about an hour of testing. At this point, I am sending them all back. While the eight remaining drives might be just fine, I have no confidence in them.

Western Digital 3TB WD3001FYYG Enterprise 7200RPM SAS Hard Drive* | eBay

used, and at almost a third of what they go for new...buyer says they "pass hdtune fine" but has no idea how much use they've had, i.e hours on them or in what environment they came from.
 

TheBay

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I'd avoid, screams to me that someone has had them replaced under warranty and been told to bin the drives.