Seagate EXOS 12TB Enterprise SATA Hard Disk $297 Shipped @ eBay 2020ling (China)

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blankie on 25/10/2022 - 15:48 ebay.com.au (500 clicks)
Last edited 25/10/2022 - 15:56 by 1 other user

Excellent price for the EXOS X16 12TB. This is the SATA version of in case you're expecting SAS. Once formatted usable space is 10.9TB

Warranty may be a bit difficult as it is registered as sold in China, output from the Seagate Warranty Page
Warranty Valid Until 18 September 2026
Regional warranty restrictions apply. ❓

Went with the X16 rather than X12 due to some newer technologies being used, and just looking to use it as a backup drive

Tech Specs

Some speeds from the drive in a USB 3.0 Dock using hdparm

/dev/sdb1:
Timing cached reads: 19682 MB in 1.96 seconds = 10050.26 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 692 MB in 3.01 seconds = 230.18 MB/sec

Seller also has other 12TB Drives listed for the same price

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  BarneyKB on 25/10/2022 - 16:19

  +1

  $24.75/TB

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  rainbowyen on 25/10/2022 - 16:23

  Remnant of Crypto mining crash, just buy Seagate external drives from Amazon and shuck them, you will get the same drives.

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    Viospeed on 25/10/2022 - 16:28

    +1

    Can't those be hit and miss with which models you get and if they require you to cover portions of the connector with duct tape lol?

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    havebeerbelywillsumo on 25/10/2022 - 17:08

    "you will get the same drives", not 'enterprise' surely (note avoiding this deal anyway)

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    Tacooo on 26/10/2022 - 00:02

    Mind explaining how a hard drive is a "remnant of crypto mining crash".

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      Nom on 26/10/2022 - 21:31

      Chia Crypto mines coins with storage space.

      Now that the price is in the toilet, the miners have sold their drives and stopped buying drives.

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        Tacooo on 26/10/2022 - 22:51

        Hardly applicable in this situation though. I can get brand new Exos 16TB drives for $340 a piece, factory sealed in anti-static bags. This price seems perfectly normal for 12TB of the same.

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          furythree on 31/10/2022 - 22:04

          @Tacooo: where are u getting 16tb drives so cheap from? any deal on 8 or 12tb?

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            Tacooo on 01/11/2022 - 04:12

            @furythree: East Digital on eBay.

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              furythree on 01/11/2022 - 16:24

              @Tacooo: Oh hong kong based

              tested to be genuine seagates?

              https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/275066518232?hash=item400b3dfad8…

              looks like price went up

              were they on sale sometime ago?

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                Tacooo on 01/11/2022 - 20:35

                @furythree: Yep, genuine. There's the OzB group buy every so often, but I just email them direct now and it comes out to about that price.

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                  furythree on 01/11/2022 - 22:16

                  @Tacooo: is it packed securely?

                  so i can just email them directly for a discount outside of any major sales?

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                    Tacooo on 02/11/2022 - 00:52

                    @furythree: Very securely. Best I've seen HDDs packed.

                    Not sure tbh. You can give it a try. Just look for the group buy thread by Neology and go from there. Can't hurt trying though.

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                    joshau on 17/11/2022 - 19:01

                    +1

                    @furythree: There's a group buy going on right now: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/736571. 16TB is expected to be under $300 as part of the group buy.

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  pinkybrain on 25/10/2022 - 16:33

  +9

  no warranty, not worth the risk

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  incipient on 25/10/2022 - 16:47

  +12

  A whole pile of reviews on the 1st, then nothing. A whole pile on the 9th. A whole pile on the 15th, then nothing, a whole pile on the 22nd, then nothing.

  Yep. Super legit.

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    bio on 25/10/2022 - 18:48

    +3

    So what? Their "growth hacker" is a subcontractor who shows up one day a week.

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  hotphil on 25/10/2022 - 17:03

  +1

  Wonder where dude is getting his 12TB stickers printed.

  Might be legit. But risk these days of getting suckered with no recourse for this kind of stuff is high.

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  sonicentropy on 25/10/2022 - 20:02

  +1

  The one star reviews are a bit worrying, lots of bad sectors, fake file size. Prices of some of these drives are too good to be true, maybe its not.

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  Empharand on 02/11/2022 - 01:16

  You're taking a massive gamble buying a drive from this seller.

  The feedback isn't notable at all considering 4 of the 12 non-positive reviews are about Seagate drive issues, and 4 are about fake 2TB USB's, so obviously this seller has no moral backbone and is selling dodgy products.

  They apparently provide a 1 year warranty, but one particular feedback mentions about them not replying when the buyer had a warranty issue with a Seagate Drive

  Best case scenario is going through Seagate for warranty issues assuming they're brand-new genuine drives, otherwise you're subject to opening an eBay case and they will require you to send it back to the seller (with tracking) which is non-refundable, at minimum would be $34 (Source: Australia Post)

  Good luck if you decide to hand $297 over. I will have no sympathy for you if you run into issues.