I just bought 6 x 16tb drives for $174 USD each. Brand new they are $217 USD each. They are “NEW 0 HOUR FACTORY RECERTS - 5 YEAR DEALER WARRANTY - 100% SATISFACTION GUARANTEED” Saved $258 in total. Three of them will be used as external drives connected to consoles to hold media on them. So they will be used when I choose to play those specific consoles. The other three drives will be backup drives of those drives. They are going to be cold storage and they will just be written to and then put on the shelf.
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What should I do to test them to make sure they are good? Should I just spend the extra money? I prefer new things with a warranty, but factory recert warranty length is the same as a new drive warranty. Any guidance is greatly appreciated. I know spinning rust is a matter of when they will break.
In case you have read the page carefully you will have realized you do not have a warranty from Seagate but from the seller Maestro Technology LLC. Their shop does not look too trustworthy and in case they go out of business you will have a warranty with no one.
well … in my opinion since it’s data for consoles I wouldn’t be to concerned with it! If it was more mission critical like data backup I’d make a case for new from the oem!
Ya hopefully they last long enough where 16tb gets cheap. I am still thinking about returning them and getting new ones. Wanted to get peoples thoughts
yea … i’m looking for cheap 10tb drives or better as well. would love to transcode / acquire an offline media library but I know storage is going to be a big hurdle for me. Only have a few 2tb drives laying around and 1 nas with 4 4tb drive in it acting as cold storage of my data in raid 5 or 10 … can’t remember at the moment.
I ended up requesting a return/refund and buying new drives. I am more confident seagate will still be in business over the next five years than the dealer.
