[Recertified] Seagate Exos NM000C 22TB $436, 24TB $467, 26TB $513, 28TB $559 @ East Digital

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[Recertified] Seagate Exos NM000C 22TB $436, 24TB $467, 26TB $513, 28TB $559 @ East Digital
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InfamousCalf on 13/08/2025 - 15:35 east-digital.myshopify.com (1134 clicks)
Last edited 13/08/2025 - 21:00 by 1 other user

These drives appeared on the East Digital site last night.

A few notes:

  • They are factory recertified with 3 years warranty from East Digital, not Seagate. This is more than the 1 year offered for HDD Pulls. Comments say you'll have to return it at your own cost to Victoria.
  • Seagate website product page
  • Datasheet from Seagate.
  • Not rated for 24/7 use, only 2400 hours (100 days)
  • These are CMR drives.
  • The speeds are slower than other drives at 190MB/s. Seagate's X24 NM000H series are 270MB/s.
  • Apparently they use the new HAMR technology. Longevity is unknown because of how new the technology is.
  • Pay with a no international fee credit/debit card as they are based in Hong Kong.
Model Capacity Price Price/TB Link
ST22000NM000C 22TB $436 $19.82 Here
ST24000NM000C 24TB $467 $19.46 Here
ST26000NM000C 26TB $516 $19.73 Here
ST28000NM000C 28TB $559 $19.96 Here
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Comments

  • marshmall0w2 on 13/08/2025 - 15:37
    -5

    factory recertified

    🤔🤔🤔🤔

    • Nukkels on 13/08/2025 - 16:12
      +6

      The warranty will replace the drive if it fails, but you'll have to spend days transferring the data from your backups (or creating your backups again). If you can afford a RAID array with disks this size where you can just hot swap one… What are you doing on ozbargain?

        • jaejae69 on 13/08/2025 - 20:15
          +16

          No qualms waffling on about 7800x3ds from Ali but now suddenly you’re a stickler for warranties?

          • Ulysses31 on 13/08/2025 - 21:23
            +2

            @jaejae69: ROAST!!!

          • marshmall0w2 on 14/08/2025 - 10:59

            @jaejae69: Huh? Since when were the CPUs from Ali refurbished? And are you implying you can't return and refund from reputable Ali sources? If this were the case, Ali posts would be negged to death every time.

            Why not post your concern on Ali posts? Oh wait, because you're afraid of being negged 😂

            Furthermore, what I am saying is that refurbished is not the only option for a low $/TB. I don't get how you don't understand this simple point.

            • jaejae69 on 14/08/2025 - 11:26

              @marshmall0w2: I don’t have to imply anything, you’re the one going on about “full warranty and not just company warranty” which clearly doesn’t apply to any seller on Ali. I’m not actually “concerned” about either case. Whether it’s CPUs or HDDs if you know what you’re getting yourself into then both can be good deals from overseas. I’m simply pointing out your hypocrisy.

      • twobit on 13/08/2025 - 20:38
        -2

        I have had great after sales from East Digital. Had 2 drives fail over 12mo and no issue to get a new one.

        They are in a raid with 4 new drives, so popped out and waited about 7days for the replacement.

        • justtoreply on 13/08/2025 - 23:27
          +3

          Yeah… But you SHOULDN'T have two drives fail in 12 months

          Via comments here the failure rate of East Digital drives seems horrific and any sane person should surely avoid them!

          For some reason hard drive buyers seem to be optimists or wishful thinkers

          • rbev on 14/08/2025 - 10:24

            @justtoreply: I bought 4 drives from them a year ago and they've been chugging along fine

            Perform way better than the 3tb reds they replaced too

            Most of my drive failures over the years have been retail ones or wd reds. The shucked WD white label drives and east digital pulls have had zero failures compared to 3 failures over 15 years with reds (granted my numbers are tiny - this sample is probably from around 20 drives that have filtered through the arrays)

            That reminds me, I need to properly wipe and sell those 3tb drives

      • brocky2006 on 13/08/2025 - 21:17
        +1

        Sitting on ozbargain waiting for a good $/tb for raid

    • lenspizza on 14/08/2025 - 10:55

      Factory recertified are often sold but unused drives, or drives that had some use but were returned for whatever reason (could be a high failure rate in the batch, etc). AFAIK factory recertified drives go through all the same testing as new drives, so in theory they're like new. The main issue is warranty and potential for higher failure rate.

      For the price it's usually worth it if you're loading up on data.

  • S2 on 13/08/2025 - 15:40
    +3

    28TB! Wow!

  • Bruceflix on 13/08/2025 - 15:45
    +27

    That's a lot of porn

    • TheGodfather-2 on 13/08/2025 - 16:33
      +19

      Linux ISOs

      • Mild October on 13/08/2025 - 17:45
        +3

        That's a lot of different distributions and versions.

      • calcom21 on 13/08/2025 - 19:31

        Why the need to keep so many Linux isos?

        • tm32 on 13/08/2025 - 20:27

          Training LLMs.

          Even your garden variety tech billionare will back your right to pilfer data if the greater good outweighs anyone elses rights to those linux isos.

          • smartazz104 on 14/08/2025 - 12:10

            @tm32:

            Training LLMs.

            Has anyone moved forward from training LLMs or is this something that poeple will just keep doing…

    • Vool on 13/08/2025 - 17:07
      +5

      High bitrate 8K VR files are big.

      • jedimaster on 14/08/2025 - 10:42

        glorious VR porn

    • buffalo bill on 13/08/2025 - 19:27

      It's a lot of anything to lose when the drive fails. Remember to buy two "0" hour drives…

  • danielh on 13/08/2025 - 15:53
    +1

    Good for my NAS drive. I have bought the recertified drive in the past from them and have had no issues 18 months later and counting.

    • calcom21 on 13/08/2025 - 19:33
      +1

      Me too 1 bought once and came it’s faulty but after emailing them back and returning the faulty one quickly dispatched another one for me as replacement. Never had issue since then

    • vanyellow on 14/08/2025 - 06:37

      i thought so to but then i saw in the description

      "Not rated for 24/7 use, only 2400 hours (100 days)"

      so are you ment to turn the drive on copy a backup over and disconnect the drive from power?

      I'm not having a dig at you, just the drive, so if you get anything past 100 days runtime… that's a good thing?

      • shiftyphil on 14/08/2025 - 08:00

        These are desktop class drives, not NAS or server class. They're meant to be on about 8 hours a day, meaning about 100 days of active life per year of warranty.

        • kampret on 14/08/2025 - 08:42

          I was thinking to buy one for my NAS until I read your comment. Thanks for pointing it out!

  • Wrongguy on 13/08/2025 - 15:59

    Will these be supported by Aoostar Max? Couldn't find any mention of supported drive sizes

    • TaurusHead on 13/08/2025 - 16:24

      Expandable Storage:Supports up to 4x 22T SATA drives, providing extensive storage capacity for your data.

      For one of the Aoostars I checked

    • wisc on 13/08/2025 - 17:35

      from Q&A section:
      Bahtiyar
      2025/08/06
      Q:https://www.ballicom.co.uk/western-digital-wd-ultrastar-dc-hc590-0f65672.p1629215.html
      Can I use WD Ultrastar DC 26TB HC590 0F65672 as HDD?
      A:yes

      Aooster seems to say no problem over 22TB here.

      also from the q and a
      Q:Have you tested Seagate Exos 26TB HDD?
      GThe max supported for SSD is 8TB correct?
      A:The largest HDD tested is 22T and the largest M.2 NVME tested is 4TB.
      The capacity of the hard disk is theoretically supportable.

      nvme:

      -8-
      2025/06/23
      Q:Is there size (TB) limit for slots M.2? e.g. is WD Black SN850X 8TB supported?
      A:Theoretically, there are no strict capacity limits, and support for the WD Black SN850X 8TB

  • gamerkonks on 13/08/2025 - 16:09
    +12

    Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read: 1 sector per 10E14

    You'd expect 1 per 10E15 in an enterprise class drive such as this…

    And only rated for 2400 power on hours per year (6.5 hrs per day)?
    Should be fine if you're spinning down the drives, but weird for an enterprise drive.

    Also Max. Sustained Transfer Rate: 190MB/s is much slower than other drives in this class, eg. WD DC HC590 26TB SATA drive is spec'd at 302MB/s, as noted by OP.

  • 02keilj on 13/08/2025 - 16:13
    +1

    Oof, wish these were available a few months back when I grabbed some 6tb drives - although I am committed to RAID and cant really justify ~$900 to get 2.

  • BigTime on 13/08/2025 - 16:21
    +12

    Damn, a year or so ago they were selling 12tb seagates for about $187, now the cheapest 12tb is $297.

    • marshmall0w2 on 13/08/2025 - 16:31

      Simply not yet that time of the year

      • jackvdbuk on 13/08/2025 - 16:57
        +12

        What time of the year do data centres rotate their disks? Happy to wait for a better month..
        ?

    • tasc on 13/08/2025 - 16:32
      -4

      That was during a price error 2 years ago. I snagged one then and I still regret not grabbing a couple more

      • BigTime on 13/08/2025 - 17:04
        +4

        Definitely not a price error. I just checked my order history for them and in July last year I got 2x ST12000NM0127 for $189 each, and then in September I got another 2 for $187 each.

      • marshmall0w2 on 13/08/2025 - 17:11
        +4

        Not a price error.

    • bdl on 13/08/2025 - 17:39

      AUD/USD exchange rate :(

      Hopefully towards end of year the AUD will have more bang for buck

      • BigTime on 13/08/2025 - 17:40
        +1

        Hope so. I'm gonna need some more before too much longer now lol

    • calcom21 on 13/08/2025 - 19:34

      I bought 12tb around $200.. it gone up a lot since then or perhaps our economic not doing well?

      • bdl on 13/08/2025 - 22:17

        They price in USD on their site (the shopify site automatically converts to AUD for us) - stupid orange tariffs and effect on AUD/USD is what is killing East Digital prices atm :(

  • impoze on 13/08/2025 - 16:38
    +1

    hm need some smaller sized but doubt server pulls would be using such tiny drives

  • c64 on 13/08/2025 - 16:38
    +1

    freshly manfuactured in thailand in may 2025. bargain!

    • xmagic on 13/08/2025 - 21:43

      Depends on the interpretation. They're RMA or product line defectives, recertified/refurbished then re-labelled in 2025.

  • mrhugo on 13/08/2025 - 16:40
    +5

    Lets hope in 12 months time we don't find out that the factory recertified labels were phony.

    • xmagic on 13/08/2025 - 21:45

      There are already HC550s with fake labels. But only labels are fake. Firmware at the moment can't lie as there's no hack on the market yet.

      • RedHab on 14/08/2025 - 05:32
        +1

        The firmware can lie.

        They've found ways of modding the FARM as well as the old SMART trick to make old drives appear new, and wipe errors.

        • mrhugo on 14/08/2025 - 10:23

          If that is true, then it's game over. Drives like the ones listed here could very well be 20K hours and an inch from death.

          How difficult is it to print a new sticker with the same details, with a new DOM date.

          If anyone does get one, can you lookup the serial number on the seagate website. Not sure what it will say, but hope it lists thats is a recertified drive.

  • bogak on 13/08/2025 - 16:43
    +6

    "0 used time"
    I'll like to see proof of that, my last drives from them all had over 2000hrs on them.

    • wisc on 13/08/2025 - 17:10
      +6

      remember to check FARM stats not SMART… google:

      HDD SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) and FARM (Field Accessible Reliability Metrics) are both used to assess the health and reliability of hard disk drives (HDDs). SMART is a standard feature on most HDDs and SSDs, while FARM is a Seagate-specific technology that provides more detailed reliability information. SMART can be manipulated by resetting its values, making it less reliable for gauging actual usage, whereas FARM values are harder to falsify and offer a more accurate picture of a drive's history

    • buffalo bill on 13/08/2025 - 19:46

      I'm sure you mean 20,000? 2000 is under 3 months.

    • xmagic on 13/08/2025 - 21:46
      +1

      These are factory recertified drives with a new firmware. Everything is zeroed out by Seagate. Officially.

  • c64 on 13/08/2025 - 16:43
    +15

    the datasheets says:

    Power-On Hours per Year (24×7) 2400
    Limited Warranty (months) 6 months

    Proven enterprise-class reliability backed by 6-month limited warranty

    lol. what sort of junk is this?

    • tanksinatra on 13/08/2025 - 20:08
      +2

      I agree. Those figures are trash. 2400 Power-On Hours is a touch over three months.
      Not suitable for a NAS.
      These drives are really only suitable for cold storage/backups.

  • wisc on 13/08/2025 - 17:31
    +1

    Man, I cant believe people put valuable data on these drive, have a look at failure rate, it goes up with age, its just a matter of time before these die, (data centres would have stats on when they are most likely to start dying and sell before that time to recoup some costs) hdds are basically a consumable with a limited life span. (or somewhat limited number of hours)

    Rebuilding a raid array is hard work, and when they are most likely to die. restoring backups also cause a decent amount of stress on a drive. so can fail when you need them…

    unsure why you would go second hand for anything other than linux isos that you can download again.

    • Vaiels on 13/08/2025 - 17:40
      +3

      It's a matter of time before any hard drive dies. I'm going to pop these into a RAIDZ2 array. I can tolerate that risk at this price. Family photos and important stuff I mirror offsite and into my Google photos.

      • axyh on 13/08/2025 - 17:56
        +4

        Just as long as you don't have multiple drive failures while rebuilding the array. It happens more often than you might think due to the rebuild process exposing latent problems with the other drives. Double parity will usually get you out of trouble, but after that second drive fails, it's a stressful time until the rebuild finishes.

        These days, I see RAID as an uptime/availability solution only. It gets you up and running quicker after a failure, but it's no substitute for proper backups (particularly if using shady or decrepit disks). The real protection is a dedicated backup server that runs regular scheduled verification jobs. If you can rotate out storage off-site, all the better.

        • buffalo bill on 13/08/2025 - 19:54
          +4

          Yes can attest i had 1 fail, then the second drive failed in rebuild after 45 minutes writing to new disk. 10 year old WD but I thought I was safe with the second being a 13 month old Seagate. Wrong.

    • TightLikeThisx on 13/08/2025 - 20:30
      +3

      unsure why you would go second hand for anything other than linux isos that you can download again.

      RAID is not a backup and these drives retail for roughly double the price new with 2 extra years of warranty (5 total).

      Before commenting I suggest you look up what happens when a drive is factory recertified.

    • xmagic on 13/08/2025 - 21:48

      With RAID on 3-2-1 backups, whatever trash drives can do the job just fine.

      And at this price point these are far from trash when used in the right setup.

  • Aarent on 13/08/2025 - 17:56
    -1

    Get in before December, if you know you know? :D /s

    • wisc on 13/08/2025 - 18:17
      +2

      i dont know, can you share?

      • Bruceflix on 13/08/2025 - 19:47
        +3

        Price goes up due to 28TB hard drives being the ideal Xmas gift for friends and family

    • buffalo bill on 13/08/2025 - 19:57

      Is that the proposed Trump ban on porn to satisfy a promise to conservatives? Whats a bet he tries to cut off unfavourable news sources after that.

  • kizzaaa on 13/08/2025 - 18:03

    Can anyone comment on the noise levels between Ironwolf Pro and Exos? Are the Exos louder?

    • RedoxSparda on 13/08/2025 - 18:09

      Would like to know also

    • xmagic on 13/08/2025 - 22:01

      Should be the same. Those drives share the same physical build. Just different binned platters and firmware with different strategy. Since both are 7.2k RPM drives, in reality they should share very similar noise profile.

      Noise profile of IronWolf Pro 30TB HAMR: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1W3tozJEcF/?t=502
      Noise profile of 18TB Exos X18 and HC550: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1U8411G7Es/?t=448
      (Seems "original soundtrack" of hard drives isn't very much a thing on YouTube or outside of Chinese enthusiasts. You may find this one interesting: one hour of drive noise profiles: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV13KWTesEqi)

    • schquid on 13/08/2025 - 23:54

      They're about the same, irritating to sit next to. But if you're running a server, one with proper cooling at least, you probably won't hear them much over the fans.

  • shreav on 13/08/2025 - 18:05

    Just checking something - how reliable is this warranty supposed to be given it's based in Hong Kong and not Australia…?

    • kizzaaa on 13/08/2025 - 18:12

      I believe they accept RMAs to a return address in Sydney NSW, but have heard their RMA process can be tedious if you don't follow up.

      In my experience all of my East Digital drives (over 10) have been great, never needed to RMA, but I do wonder what would happen as they routinely sell out of models.

      • silky on 13/08/2025 - 18:24
        +1

        I've purchased from them before. The drive was dead on arrival, and took a while to hear back for a return, which was sent back within Australia. I ended up having to pay return postage, too. I just took a refund (less postage) and bought brand new. The universe was telling me something lol.

      • Everettpsycho on 13/08/2025 - 19:20

        Pretty much this, I'm in NZ and had to post my dead drive that failed in a week to victoria. Cost me a decent amount in postage so not sure being this side of the tasman I'd take the risk on them again.

        I did have to prompt them a couple of times to go check their post box and get the drive but once they did that I was refunded as they had no stock to replace.

      • twobit on 13/08/2025 - 20:40
        +1

        No issue with returns; took about a week. PO Box in Aus.

    • BOGLOAD on 13/08/2025 - 19:17
      +6

      Have just run through this myself, first drive in 11 purchases. Was fine for 2 days, then reallocation of sectors out the wazoo. Started at 4-5, then quickly jumped to 1/2/3000 in 2 days. First time I've experienced it this bad with any HDD (this was a seagate recert, 16tb).

      Contacted them via their email address (3rd August) listed on the checkout email. Took about ~2 days to hear back (even though they're listed as working on Sat/Sundays).

      Was asked to send it back to a PO BOX in "Kerrimuir", Victoria (specifically a 'suburb' within BH, never knew it existed). At my own cost ($15ish). Drive was delivered to the PO box on a Wednesday, picked up two days later on Friday. Sent an email on following Monday afternoon asking about it, was given a tracking number in the evening that wasn't tracking. Finally kicked over at 9/10pm the following day (picked up), and expecting to receive it 14th/15th.

      All up, about 4 emails from me, and 11-12 days to see a replacement (sent from Sydney to Victoria). The email support was very short and sharp. "This is tracking number". The prices are fantastic for the most part. The customer service isn't anything to write home about.

      Will see how the replacement goes (hoping for no issues!).

      • andrew1879 on 13/08/2025 - 20:00
        +1

        That's similar to my experience. A refurb WD HC550 was DOA and I had to post it back at my expense. In my case it was much slower to be collected by them from their post office. Once that happened the rest of the process was OK but I think it took a couple of weeks to be received let alone send a replacement and I had to chase it up several times.

        Also a bit annoying to be charged in USD at checkout by PayPal so use a foreign fee-free card if possible.

        But their prices are generally good so I'd probably buy from them again.

      • TightLikeThisx on 13/08/2025 - 20:34
        +1

        My experience was similar except they didn't have the stock to replace the drive so they sent me a refund.

      • impoze on 13/08/2025 - 20:45

        No reimbursement for posting it back?

        • andrew1879 on 13/08/2025 - 21:16

          That's right. It's not great.

  • kingarthur on 13/08/2025 - 18:12
    +1

    I am not sure but there is discussion around HAMR here https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1iobtth/what_i…

  • Hornpub on 13/08/2025 - 18:46
    +2

    Got the 16tb for 223$ last time a while ago, 0 issue so far as pc drive.

  • Sage222 on 13/08/2025 - 19:19
    +1

    Should add these guys are awesome. Had a drive fail about 11 months after purchase. They warrantied it without any fuss at all. Quality sellers

    • calcom21 on 13/08/2025 - 20:07

      What info they asked. I’m not even sure if they remember who bought what

      • Sage222 on 13/08/2025 - 20:12

        Just the email receipt from my purchase

  • Switchblade88 on 13/08/2025 - 19:26
    +3

    Assuming there's maximum throughput (unlikely) then at 190Mb/s it will still take over 40 hours of continuous writes to fill a 28Tb drive.

    That is a very concerning timeframe for if (when) your RAID array loses a drive…

  • krisp on 13/08/2025 - 19:50

    If I need more than one should I split the order to avoid any taxes, import duties, or to ensure they come from different production batches (which is likely for recertified product)?

    • wisc on 13/08/2025 - 20:11

      they are recertified/second hand, they most likely wont be in the same batch.

    • xmagic on 13/08/2025 - 21:32
      +1

      Now that both Seagate and WD are having dedicated/marked recertified product lines, you'll likely see the same date of manufacturer across the entire batch. Yes the actual drive body could from a mixed source, but there are people pointing out having mixed dated drives to prevent failure in batch is kind of a myth.

      Also East Digital handles all the duties and taxes so what on the price tag is what you pay. Tax included. It's very likely you're receiving your order from a Victoria address anyway, since they have a storage in Melbourne and someone processing shipping and returns.

  • asa79 on 13/08/2025 - 20:47

    Any 16tb deals?

  • DoomTrooper on 13/08/2025 - 20:52

    Well crap, I just bought a couple of 16tb drives from them a week ago for the same price as these 22tb :(
    One a side note, delivery was pretty quick!

  • itsme56 on 13/08/2025 - 21:09

    that hurts, I paid $900ea for 2x rectified 28TBs at start of the year

  • xmagic on 13/08/2025 - 21:27
    +5

    I noticed that Seagate refreshed their Factory Recertified (dedicated product line with NM000C models, not the usual FR that share the same model number with retail products) datasheet and I'm a bit worried:

    Usually enterprise drives are marketed to have 10^-15 URE, 8760 power-on hours (24x7), 2.5M MTBF, etc. These are the case on 2024 version datasheet for those Exos FR series, however they're downgraded to 10^-14 URE, 2400 power-on hours (though still says 24x7, not sure if that's an oversight) and MTBF claim has been removed. These numbers match the consumer drives product lines, not enterprise drives.

  • motion2082 on 13/08/2025 - 21:30

    I recently bought 2x New 16TB WD HC550 for $450ea

    Going ok so far. I did have to return a Refurb 16TB Exos thought after bad sectors detected after 13 months

  • quanticism on 13/08/2025 - 21:46

    Why are mechanical HDDs still so expensive? Still nowhere near the value in this deal back in 2023 - 20TB for $328

    Lack of demand because everyone's going to SSDs and cloud storage so production scaled down? Too much demand because enterprise are buying it for cloud storage? We all know AI training needs GPUs. Do they need a lot of storage too?

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