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[Refurb] WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB Enterprise SATA HDD (3.5", CMR) $599.95 / $609.95 (3- / 12-Month Warranty) + Del @ Neology

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[Refurb] WD Ultrastar DC HC530 14TB Enterprise SATA HDD (3.5", CMR) $599.95 / $609.95 (3- / 12-Month Warranty) + Del @ Neology
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itsme56 on 11/07/2026 - 19:27 neology.com.au (432 clicks)
Last edited 11/07/2026 - 19:29 by 1 other user

Spotted this while restocking my NAS — Neology has a flash sale on refurb WD Ultrastar HC530 14TB drives (model WUH721414ALE6L0).

Enterprise-grade SATA, CMR (not SMR), 7200RPM
Normally $669.95 (3-month warranty) / $679.95 (12-month warranty)
Flash sale price: $599.95 / $609.95
Link: https://neology.com.au/products/r-wuh721414ale6l0-fs

These are datacentre pulls so they've had a proper duty cycle, but Ultrastars have a solid reputation for reliability (was going to grab a couple for a ZFS pool anyway). The 12-month warranty option for an extra $10 seems like a no-brainer if you're planning to run it long-term or in an array.
Cost per TB works out to about $42.85 (3-month) or $43.55 (12-month) — decent for enterprise CMR at 14TB.
They also have 28TB on sale at a decent price: https://neology.com.au/products/r-st28000nm001c

Worth checking current new/refurb prices elsewhere before pulling the trigger, as always.

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  • SoulButter on 11/07/2026 - 19:30

    So depressing to see this considering that I was buying 12TB drives for $350 just a few years ago.

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    • Charity on 11/07/2026 - 19:45

      $250 even a year ago

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    • Mild October on 11/07/2026 - 20:07

      I can't even upvote nor properly comment HDD posts now.

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      • tonyjzx on 11/07/2026 - 23:15

        these are fuccin REFURBS too

        bloody hell

        LLMs arent event that big lol

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        • Freestyle on 12/07/2026 - 00:31

          its because of component prices

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  • Watanabe1995 on 11/07/2026 - 19:36

    mad price

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  • kwetty on 11/07/2026 - 19:41

    East digital currently has them for $344 usd. Abeit they were $255 usd a month ago. I got 6 of them, they all had 40k hours with about 10 power cycles. All tests passed.

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    • Tacooo on 11/07/2026 - 20:13

      Insane. I got 6x 18TB brand new from there for AUD$510 each like 6 months ago.

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    • hollykryten on 11/07/2026 - 20:43

      Well those were obviously data mining drives that were used to hell and back continually. I wouldn't place trust in those drives even if all tests passed at the time. It could pack it in at any time.

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      • umexcuseme on 12/07/2026 - 11:07

        What matters is the power cycles. 40k hours is nothing for these drives.

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  • frkino on 11/07/2026 - 19:44

    Ouch, sitting out
    time to put the GPU hardware decode/encode to re-encode library

    tough economic times..

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    • buffalo bill on 12/07/2026 - 02:35

      Better start storing your Linux ISOs in AV1

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  • Viospeed on 11/07/2026 - 20:06

    Wow I was buying 16TB Exo drives for almost 1/2 the price 16 months ago I think.

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  • c64 on 11/07/2026 - 20:18

    Cost per TB works out to about $42.85 (3-month) or $43.55 (12-month) — decent for enterprise CMR at 14TB

    cough

    i bought brand new 18TB HC550s for $629 locally a year back. these will be 5 year old HDDs. just wait it out unless you have $$$ to piss away

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  • hollykryten on 11/07/2026 - 20:41

    Prices of HDD is terrible now. I bought a brand new WD Ultrastar DC HC320 8TB for $325 from Amazon US in March 2025 and i thought that was expensive then. It made for a good HDD in a 3.5" HDD enclosure being used as an external HDD for my PS5 to store the PS4 and PS5 games. Much quicker to copy the PS5 game from the HDD back to the console storage than redownload it. It still use it to this day for the PS5 and it works with no issues. But of course it was genuine brand new with 0 used hours at the time i got it.

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  • kingmoron on 11/07/2026 - 20:44

    Whats with hard drive pricing- AI doesnt need them do they?

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    • hollykryten on 11/07/2026 - 20:56

      Well i do know that the hard drive has RAM for a memory cache. Possibly the reason for the skyrocketing price of the HDD.

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    • boozed on 11/07/2026 - 21:55

      Training LLMs requires incredible amounts of data. Substantial copies of the WWW, for example.

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      • Stuj on 12/07/2026 - 08:25

        And for storing all of our prompts and responses for citizen surveillance

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  • JacobAU on 11/07/2026 - 20:52

    Adding to the convo - I purchased an 8tb ironwolf NAS drive for $299 mid 2024. Now when I need to buy another one to actually make a nas out of it it is $600. Legit not sure what to do hoping i can make use of the 4tb i have on hand atm ig but thats all I can do.

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    • hollykryten on 11/07/2026 - 20:57

      I guess it just shows how much we're getting ripped off these days.

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      • jazzza on 11/07/2026 - 21:27

        You can say the same thing about property 😅

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        • buffalo bill on 12/07/2026 - 02:38

          Depends. Property is mostly down from 1 year ago. I'd still want to know the price from 1-5 years ago before i bought.

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    • grumblerain on 12/07/2026 - 09:34

      despite the numerous people downvoting you, i'm inclined to agree. dunno why the vast majority of comments on hard disks and ram is about people reminiscing about what prices they paid 16months to 5 years ago, in the "good old days".

      as if all of us aren't already well aware of the sky rocketing prices of RAM/HDD/GPUs.

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      • DarnyBoy1982 on 12/07/2026 - 09:38

        Exactly. I dont really care about down votes. Internet rep is meaningless. Its a wierd wanting to feel included thing.

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  • Jabberwocky on 11/07/2026 - 22:09

    oh boy - my Brand New -> Seagate 16TB Exos X18 x 4 = 64TB for $1164 in mid 2024 ~ $18 per TB
    Cant even imagine now

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  • Spizz on 11/07/2026 - 22:45

    $567 AUD from EDs with 3 year warranty-

    https://east-digital.myshopify.com/collections/hdd

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    • kizzaaa on 12/07/2026 - 04:30

      They also have Ultrastar 14TB HC530 for AUD 495 but with 1 year warranty and no Instant Secure Erase suffix.

      Personally I'd pay more for 3 year warranty

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  • AlmightyGaz on 12/07/2026 - 07:35

    Damn that's insane, I was buying these brand new for $338.00 back in 2020. The scary thing is my 8 bay NAS has a single parity drive and at these prices i can't afford to replace any failing drives.

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    • merriweather on 12/07/2026 - 09:01

      Yeah man my nas just told me yesterday I’ve got IO errors on one drive, went to order a replacement and the price has doubled in six months. wtf

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  • tastycrayon on 12/07/2026 - 08:37

    Can’t find these anymore :(
    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/903683

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  • Series4Episode10 on 12/07/2026 - 20:03

    Glad I bought a bunch of ex server SAS drives early last year, WTF needed to fixed so it could be considered to be refurbed!?
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    Spinning platen HDD's have been such an ass pain last 10yrs … bought 2 Seagate external drives a while back, both had the identical stuff backed up on them, the controller on one died … after shucking it found corrupted data but drive was healthy … went bought a drive & stuck it in a desktop, started the transfer from the existing good drive & the controller on that died soon after starting the transfer corrupting the data on that drive also… F-ing nightmare! … lost a heap of stuff even after spending weeks using data recovery software which recovered only small files, now back my stuff up on 3 separate drives each drive has different specs!

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