Nice... if you need, email them - they'll help you decide on the best HDDs for your needs. I suggest the Seagate Exos X20 line as they've been good to me; SO FAR.
@@techheart6090 from what I understand, a lot of drive failures are due to faults and have a higher incidence of happening in the first 1-2 years of operation - so a "flight proven" drive, so to speak, is actually not the worst bet.
I took a chance with waterpanther when I got my last NAS and they were great about getting me new drives when a couple failed (drive failures are a fact of life, especially with refurbs). That was more important to me than the price of the drive overall so now that I'm building my new NAS I'll be buying from them again. There are quite a few names in the refurb business that have a pretty good reputation from things I've read about them and with the amount of $ saved it's a lot easier to keep a few drives on hand for spares. Good luck with your NAS!
Interesting - a month later and my NAS is running great w/ ZFS... hope these drives last and last... I have on spare 18TB HDD for the first failure - hoping thats years away!
@@techheart6090 I've worked with smb/mid sized companies and in datacenters, always have a spare drive or 2 and a disaster recovery plan that's tested and known to work. I've seen companies go out of business after a catastrophic data loss. It costs more up front but if your data is mission critical it's worth it.
Subscribed and looking forward for your follow up videos on these drives. I just got the same drive from serverpartdeals and im going to get more when the budget allows for it. Right now im preclearing it on unraid and looking for a reason why this deal was so good. I only see good things with the exception of people complaining sbout CS from SPD when they have a warranty claim. Thanks for making this video!
So far they have simply performed PERFECTLY. I chose TrueNAS, but I think you'll enjoy them on UNRAID too... will do more updates as the months and years pass; maybe a 6mo / 1year - and beyond. :P Lemme know how your purchases go!
I picked up 7x 18TB drives for my backup routine from them. Everything checks out with a 4x bad blocks overwrite with a before and after smart test. The smart output is a bit weird vs a normal consumer drive. And I've been using them for quarterly backups. My concern is long term reliability. As I'm going to be building a replacement 140TB RAIDZ3 monster NAS this fall and with that many disks....not sure. Legit I can save thousands by going factory re-certified but with only a 1 year warranty......eh.
How long have yours been in production??? I intend to run these DAILY in a TrueNAS setup.... time will tell, but I'm a happy customer TODAY. Tomorrow is always the important part, tho, right???!
To some degree the question is not how they behave when you first get them, it's more about how ServerPartDeals handles issues and how long the drives last. Also I find the low hours strange. They were probably reset. As presented in this video it would almost seem that you put more of those 50+ hours on each of the drives doing the bad blocks scan if you did it in the order presented. I almost wish they had 4000 hours or so on them, that'd be about 6 months of usage. That'd give me something to actually gauge how much use they had. 50 hours even if it's all before you got them just sounds like they reset them and did a few tests on them before you got them leaving you with no idea how many hours are on any of the parts.
I agree with much that you state... I HAVE had good email support from serverpartdeals - I realize, after posting the video, that I condensed that down to a one-liner - but customer support helped me decide on what drives to purchase.... I'll follow up in one year - and at first failure; hopefully AFTER the one year revisit!!!
I've bought any number of refurbished/re-certified drives from a number of vendors over the years and they almost always reset the smart data, even to the point of a few times I've seen the serial number get wiped or changed in smart or other strange stuff. Like you said the important part is how they handle problems, I haven't bought HD's from them but I have ordered some other parts from them without any issues.
Thanks. I just bought a 12tb iron wolf from Amazon. I'll be trying this site on pay day!
Nice... if you need, email them - they'll help you decide on the best HDDs for your needs. I suggest the Seagate Exos X20 line as they've been good to me; SO FAR.
@@techheart6090 from what I understand, a lot of drive failures are due to faults and have a higher incidence of happening in the first 1-2 years of operation - so a "flight proven" drive, so to speak, is actually not the worst bet.
I took a chance with waterpanther when I got my last NAS and they were great about getting me new drives when a couple failed (drive failures are a fact of life, especially with refurbs). That was more important to me than the price of the drive overall so now that I'm building my new NAS I'll be buying from them again. There are quite a few names in the refurb business that have a pretty good reputation from things I've read about them and with the amount of $ saved it's a lot easier to keep a few drives on hand for spares. Good luck with your NAS!
Interesting - a month later and my NAS is running great w/ ZFS... hope these drives last and last... I have on spare 18TB HDD for the first failure - hoping thats years away!
@@techheart6090 I've worked with smb/mid sized companies and in datacenters, always have a spare drive or 2 and a disaster recovery plan that's tested and known to work. I've seen companies go out of business after a catastrophic data loss. It costs more up front but if your data is mission critical it's worth it.
Subscribed and looking forward for your follow up videos on these drives. I just got the same drive from serverpartdeals and im going to get more when the budget allows for it. Right now im preclearing it on unraid and looking for a reason why this deal was so good. I only see good things with the exception of people complaining sbout CS from SPD when they have a warranty claim. Thanks for making this video!
So far they have simply performed PERFECTLY. I chose TrueNAS, but I think you'll enjoy them on UNRAID too... will do more updates as the months and years pass; maybe a 6mo / 1year - and beyond. :P Lemme know how your purchases go!
What's the scam?
"The ServerPartDeals Scam, Explained"
I picked up 7x 18TB drives for my backup routine from them. Everything checks out with a 4x bad blocks overwrite with a before and after smart test. The smart output is a bit weird vs a normal consumer drive. And I've been using them for quarterly backups. My concern is long term reliability. As I'm going to be building a replacement 140TB RAIDZ3 monster NAS this fall and with that many disks....not sure. Legit I can save thousands by going factory re-certified but with only a 1 year warranty......eh.
I'm In EU and I was interested in the 18TB too.
But after TAX and Import duties I decided to not go with them.
How long have yours been in production??? I intend to run these DAILY in a TrueNAS setup.... time will tell, but I'm a happy customer TODAY. Tomorrow is always the important part, tho, right???!
To some degree the question is not how they behave when you first get them, it's more about how ServerPartDeals handles issues and how long the drives last. Also I find the low hours strange. They were probably reset. As presented in this video it would almost seem that you put more of those 50+ hours on each of the drives doing the bad blocks scan if you did it in the order presented. I almost wish they had 4000 hours or so on them, that'd be about 6 months of usage. That'd give me something to actually gauge how much use they had. 50 hours even if it's all before you got them just sounds like they reset them and did a few tests on them before you got them leaving you with no idea how many hours are on any of the parts.
I agree with much that you state... I HAVE had good email support from serverpartdeals - I realize, after posting the video, that I condensed that down to a one-liner - but customer support helped me decide on what drives to purchase.... I'll follow up in one year - and at first failure; hopefully AFTER the one year revisit!!!
I've bought any number of refurbished/re-certified drives from a number of vendors over the years and they almost always reset the smart data, even to the point of a few times I've seen the serial number get wiped or changed in smart or other strange stuff. Like you said the important part is how they handle problems, I haven't bought HD's from them but I have ordered some other parts from them without any issues.