EXPIRED Western Digital DC SA620 1.6tb $145 or buyer's offer

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newabc

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The ebay seller listed Western Digital DC SA620 1.6tb, $145 or buyer's offer, and also a starting bid at $125 at another post, shipping is around $10, around $1 for each additional drive:

Spec sheet(The 1.6tb one is 1.8DW/D):

It seems a better deal than the Sandisk cloudspeed 1.7tb that SA620's packaging is a little bit newer even they have the same model number string.

update: The seller raised the starting bid to $145 on the 2nd link. But the 1st link is still $145 or buyer's offer.
 
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newabc

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The seller raised the starting bid to $145 on the 2nd link. But the 1st link is still $145 or buyer's offer. STH effect?
 
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Received 2.

Connected to an external sata box with UASP support.
The smart and diagnose of one of these through UASP as below(by SandiskGuard):

Code:
Device * (*********) detected at 2021-03-14 14:14:34

Serial Number        = ***********
Part Number          = SDLF1CRM-016T-1HA1
Firmware Rev         = ZR11REA1
Max LBA              = 3125627567 (0xBA4D4AAF)
Sector Size          = 512
Interface Type       = SATA
WWN                  = 5001173101******
PI Enabled           = False
PI Type              = 0
TCG Supported        = False
Life Left            = 99
Power On Hours       = 1735

[SMART Read Data]
Attribute  Name                                     Status Nominal  Worst    RawData          Raw Decode
5          Retired Block Count                      3300   100      100      00000000000000   Number of Retired Blocks=0
9          Power-On Hours                           3200   99       99       C70600000A0100   Total Number of Power-On-Hours=1735, Total Seconds since Last POH Update=266
13         Lifetime UECC Count                      1200   100      100      11000000000000   Count of Uncorrectable ECC Errors=17
32         Write Amplification                      0200   100      100      00000000000000   Write Amplification multiplied by 100=0
33         Write Amplification Factor               0200   100      100      64000000000000   
170        Reserved Blocks Remaining                3200   100      100      41490000000000   Reserved Block Count=18753
171        Program Fail Count                       3200   100      100      00000000000000   Program Error Count=0
172        Erase Fail Count                         3200   100      100      00000000000000   Erase Error Count=0
175        Power Loss Protection Failure            3200   100      100      00000000000000   
178        SSD Life Left (upto 0.01%%)              1200   100      100      A2260000000000   
183        Lifetime Link Rate Downgrade Count       3200   100      100      0B000000000000   
191        Clean Shutdown Count                     3200   100      100      FF010000000000   
192        Unclean Shutdown Count                   3200   100      100      00000000000000   
194        Drive Temperature                        2200   70       35       1E000841000000   Current Temperature (C)=30, Lowest Temperature Recorded since First Power-On (C)=8, Highest Temperature Recorded since First Power-On (C)=65
196        Reallocation Event Count                 1B00   100      100      00000000000000   Number of Blocks Reallocated=0
199        UDMA CRC Error                           3E00   100      100      00000000000000   
211        Read Disturb Reallocation Events         3200   100      100      00000000000000   
233        Lifetime NAND Writes                     3200   100      100      40700200000000   Number of 64GB Increments NAND Writes=159808
235        Capacitor Health                         3200   100      100      00000000000000   
241        Lifetime Bytes Written by Host           3200   100      100      804C0200000000   Number of 64GB Increments Written by the Host=150656
242        Lifetime Bytes Read by Host              3200   100      100      80380200000000   Number of 64GB Increments Read by the Host=145536
244        Lifetime Thermal Throttle Activations    3200   100      100      00000000000000   
245        Percent Drive Life Remaining             1200   99       99       63000000000000   Percent Drive Life Remaining=99
253        SPI Tests Remaining                      1200   100      100      00000000000000   

---SMART Read Data Complete!---

[Diagnostic Report]
Retrieving IDENTIFY data... DONE!
Retrieving EVENT LOG... FAILED!
Retrieving CORE DUMP... FAILED!
Retrieving SMART ATTRIBUTES data... FAILED!
Retrieving DEFECTS count... FAILED!
[Error]
IO Control Status = Failure(-1)
 
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What you mean ?
I got a bad vibe after some messages back and forth, that made me doubt the authenticity of the what he was listing. Didn't know anything about the drives and claimed someone "gave them to him".

More importantly his account didn't have recent sales history, and it lines up with a particular pattern where a scammer hijacks an ebay account, changes the payment account, and then lists large quantities of an obscure item. It's very commonplace at the moment, especially with high value PC components.

But since @newabc got his drives that's great, glad I was wrong.
 
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I just got a bad vibe from him with some weird responses to my questions that made me doubt the authenticity of the what he was listing, combined with the fact he didn't really have any other ebay sales history, and didn't really know anything about the drives, and that the prevalence of hijacked ebay accounts are commonplace now - I deal with them constantly.

But since @newabc got his drives that's great, glad I was wrong.
I think the seller's issue may be that he didn't find a correct tool to get the smart info. But we already have some experiences here on the Sandisk Cloudspeed 1.7tb SSDs.

By the way, his packing is not good and the outlooks of the drives' labels are not good(Look like they have a pretty long history).
 
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I just got a bad vibe from him with some weird responses to my questions that made me doubt the authenticity of the what he was listing, combined with the fact he didn't really have any other ebay sales history, and didn't really know anything about the drives, and that the prevalence of hijacked ebay accounts are commonplace now - they follow a particular pattern which his account lined up with.

But since @newabc got his drives that's great, glad I was wrong.
I asked my wife to shoot in one take video by cellphone when I opened the package.
 
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The seller changed the price to $135 or buyer's offer, the shipping is the same as 1st post.
 
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Not sure if this request belongs here, but seems related to original post to me. ...Does anyone have a good link to the ZR11REA1 firmware for these SA620 SSD? My GoogleFu must be week, SanDisk & Western Digital just refer to ZR11, but no direct .dob download. There was a "ZR11REA1_w_boot_BLR-0080_QR.dob" download I could find, but has the wrong offset (e.g. SandDiskguard firmware update option says

"
Updating...FAILED!
[Error]
(92-07)

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
---------------------------------------------------------
00000000 00 00 00 00 )
"

Any guidance or assistance is much appreciated :).
 
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Hi @abq,

The knowledge about this series SSDs is from the thread discussing the "Sandisk CloudSpeed Eco Gen II 1.7TB", the block size I have tried and later succeeded on the cloudspeed2 1.7tb ssd is 256. You can also download the zip package with all the ZR11 firmwares from the sandisk official page too.
 
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@newabc, I may be google challenged here, and do not want to appear too obtuse, but the sandisk download site is here, http://downloads.sandisk.com/downloads/ess/firmware/cloudspeed2-eco-ultra-releasenotes-zr11.pdf and firmware CloudSpeed Gen. II Eco & Ultra SSD Drive Firmware (ZR11). But the "CloudSpeed Gen. II Eco & Ultra Firmware (ZR11), Size: 2.2MB" link will not work for me.

I can clearly see references to "ZR11REA1" firmware for these particular "Ultrastar DC SA620 1.6TB ", part number "SDLF1CRM-016T-1HA2". ***But no actual link to download, other than broken http://downloads.sandisk.com/downloads/ess/firmware/cloudspeed2-eco-ultra-fw-zr11.zip*** ...I must be missing something, because all search for "ZR11REA1" firmware are circular, and no other link for download.

Can you post the actual working link to "ZR11REA1" firmware? It would be much appreciated by this village idiot;).

BTW, I did find "ZR11REA1_w_boot_BLR-0080_QR.dob" firmware, noting that it is ".dob" type expected by sandiskguard, but the sandiskguard firmware update tool says not right firmware and "bad offset" (see my original post above for exact screen capture). The sandiskguard tool is usually great, but must have correct .dob firmware for my particular SSD (SDLF1CRM-016T-1HA2)!

Any and all guidance or direct links would be much appreciated. ...Yes, I know it appears I am asking to be spoon feed, but spent several hours looking for actual working download link at this point, so must be something I am missing. I have sent comments to sandisk to check on website.

EDIT: I have successfully downloaded "ZR11REA1" firmware! Trying 256 byte trick next, wish me luck (special thanks to @newabc for 256 byte suggestion). Will move this topic to separate thread, and post more if I find anything useful to share.
 
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First of all, sorry for resurrecting a zombie!

Just really curious, @newabc, how have the drives you received worked over the last few months? You mentioned poor packaging and the appearance that they had had a long life already, has any of that reflected in how they have performed?
 
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US $126.00
He has them reposted. The price is pretty good, but the speeds are ho-hum due to sata interface. I'm wondering if a 2tb consumer drive for $160ish has better value for home use
 
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First of all, sorry for resurrecting a zombie!

Just really curious, @newabc, how have the drives you received worked over the last few months? You mentioned poor packaging and the appearance that they had had a long life already, has any of that reflected in how they have performed?
They are still in working without any issue. Yes, the packaging was bad. They just performed as a regular SATA enterprise drive.

US $126.00
He has them reposted. The price is pretty good, but the speeds are ho-hum due to sata interface. I'm wondering if a 2tb consumer drive for $160ish has better value for home use
I am curious about what the smart info will be even I have enough drives and will not place a new order. After the Chia rush, I will be very serious on the used enterprise drives on ebay which are sold by individuals but not a long history company selling refurbished server gears.
 
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I am curious about what the smart info will be
I've messaged and asked for a sample of that info, will let you know if I get a reply.
I'm hoping to get a small mountain of them if the numbers are ok. I'll be using them mostly as write once read many drives, so probably doesn't matter too much as long as they're above 85% or so.

Good to hear that they've not given up on you, gives me hope :)
 
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I've messaged and asked for a sample of that info, will let you know if I get a reply.
I'm hoping to get a small mountain of them if the numbers are ok. I'll be using them mostly as write once read many drives, so probably doesn't matter too much as long as they're above 85% or so.

Good to hear that they've not given up on you, gives me hope :)
I think if they could easily get the smart info in March, they would not have chosen such a low price.
 
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