Is this a good 3TB drive?

No experience with the seagate NAS stuff (WD Red have done well for me at work), but that drive may be refurb/used. Only showing 1 year warranty...
 
Looks like a refurb or used drive as indicated above. One year warranty directly through the reseller? Smells fishy...
 
Ocellaris said:
Looks like a refurb or used drive as indicated above. One year warranty directly through the reseller? Smells fishy...
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same price as toshiba retail drive sold directly from newegg so no reason to buy from that third party.
 
Wow that's a ridiculously good price though. I'd buy a couple just to use stand alone as backup drives.

For raid arrays I prefer Toshibas or Hitachis though, or WD. Seagate has too high of a failure rate which has been shown by various stats like Backblaze. Though maybe their NAS ones are better.
 
Red Squirrel said:
Wow that's a ridiculously good price though. I'd buy a couple just to use stand alone as backup drives.

For raid arrays I prefer Toshibas or Hitachis though, or WD. Seagate has too high of a failure rate which has been shown by various stats like Backblaze. Though maybe their NAS ones are better.
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Seagate failure rates have been dropping to average ranges in the last report and WD has been rising but I would still stick to toshiba for cost and HGST for top line stuff until Seagate sees a consistent track record.
 
That looks like a white label/enterprise pull from a machine. It could of been not used but it still looks like an OEM pull.

Either way, its a badass purchase that I think would be worth the risk.
 
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