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12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com (serverpartdeals.com)
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Has anyone bought from here before? Looking to upgrade my NAS drives.

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[–] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Refurbished drives get their SMART data reset during the process, they absolutely had more than that originally.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Oh wow I did not know that.

    That's absolutely terrifying. Like resetting the speedometer for used cars.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    You mean odometer, resetting the speedometer wouldn't be a bad thing.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Amazon reseller for xbox drives was getting 10 year old dirty crusty drives and swapping the HD controller to a more recent one. So SMART report looked like a young drive. Xbox casing had a sticker or warranty void. So me being me wondered and opened it to find a dirty ass old drive inside. i called Amazon and initially they said it is outside of return window and warranty...But i explained it doesn't matter when I detected the fraud it is still fraud. So they gave me my money back

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    This has got me concerned, wondering how do you tell it's old if the controller is replaced? Are there serials or dates on the other parts or just obvious wear?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    For the ones I had, the corrosion of the metal and stained labels was the give away (looked like they had been out on an autoshop repair bench), but each part had its own label dates. HDD was way older date than the controller board.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I think there is a difference on Refurbished drives and Manufactured recertified. On server part deals the prices were different and manufactured recertified being a little more expensive for the same drive. So I assumed the drives were send back from a data center and tested again but they cant be spelled as new.

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