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Yes, that was stated in the thread title.
As a friend I would advise be careful with these. Greymarket IT resellers employ all sorts of weird but sophisticated "creative relabeling", SMART-clearing, and fake-warranty shenanigans that get by most people unless you know what to look out for.
The implication isn't that they're a scam site. They don't need to be. They're more operating within legal bounds and grey area. That Seagate has some of their own issues doesn't really change that or necessarily relate.
The Seagate Exos are the Seagate quality of old--I bought some of the first 16TB Exos and they're still doing great and have picked up a few more along the way. They're on par with any other enterprise class drive from HGST, WD, or Toshiba ime.
They have a parent company or some sort of affiliation with a group of companies that have all had issues at one point or another. Or at least this is my recollection from my online reading.
All good, I wasn't actually disagreeing with you though.
But because of the way (companies like this) tend to source and then modify the drives for resale, a small percentage of natural replacements ends up not mattering.I wasnt speculating, but going into detail here would just be a google-searchable blueprint for copycats. And everyone else won't care. If any longtime account here does care I'd be happy to DM them.
They're not a shady website, didnt mean to imply that. Have known of them for a long time. The pricepoints telegraph their particular resale strategy and methods *for specific drives like this*, and a couple test buys confirmed it.
I am interested as well. I'm not clambering for more HDD-based storage at the moment (I have a handful of 8TB WD "shucked" white labels, either shuck'd myself from MyBook/Elements or bought from [H] FS/FT and the general online discourse about identifying the drives , variants, and features was pretty solid) , but I am interested if there is some degree of widespread graymarket nonsense going on that is hard to discern under normal circumstances until you get burned. I'm curious if this phenomena or a similar one could affect other potential deals on not just storage, but other stuff like networking hardware etc.
Oh sorry, lol. It shouldn't matter if they have factored in the warranties, but most companies still fight a legit warranty.All good, I wasn't actually disagreeing with you though.
I can't remember if this was one the 'sister companies' owned by this company's parent.
They should. Enterprise drives generally work the same way as others except are designed for reliability vs noise or power usage.. I had to tell my synology not to spin them down, which means these drives should follow the normal commands for spin up/down even if they don't have any defaults to spin down.
The one that I bought had "0" hours on it. I heard someone else got one that had "12". I assume that mine was cleared to 0 but who knows.
thats good to know. By manufacturer refurbished, I would hope they brought the HD to like new condition with any original defects fixed and not just a superficial cleaning. If the hours are close to zero, Im going to take the jump and say its practically like new
Covered directly by seagate? Did you need to register?
Only looked at the 14TB X16, but $15 more for an additional 3 years of warranty is not bad.
lol, they'll sell out and get new stock. It will be back.
Oldies but goodies when they're enterprise quality.
They won't be able to do that as prices have been steadily declining as larger drive sizes become more prevalent. I think once the 20/22TB are sub $500, these will be even cheaper.
booo