I was initially skeptical about using a recertified 12TB hard drive in my NAS, but after testing in a RAID10 configuration, I’m pleasantly surprised by its performance. Cost Savings: Compared to new drives, the price was significantly lower, making it a budget-friendly option for high-capacity storage. Performance: Speeds are on par with new drives—no noticeable bottlenecks in read/write operations. Running in RAID10, I’m getting a good balance of speed and redundancy. Low Power Consumption & Noise: The drive runs quietly and doesn’t generate excessive heat, which is essential for 24/7 NAS operation. For NAS users looking for an affordable way to expand storage, a recertified 12TB drive is a solid option—So far, it’s performing well in my RAID10 setup, but I’d still recommend having a backup strategy in place just in case. Would I buy another? Yes, but only for non-critical data or in a redundant RAID array. Read more
Best of the best! Speeds are as advertised, much quieter than other drivers, size is as advertised, works great and the quality is amazing for recertified! Edit: I'm coming back to say that the drives that I received must be brand new, because they are running flawlessly. I wanted to add that I purchased my drives from ServerPartDeals (Formerly Tech on Tech) and I trust them with my life! Also, come to find out, Linus from LinusTechTips uses ServerPartDeals for their refurbished and recertified drives! They made a video about them as well. They're an amazing company and very trustworthy! Thanks for the perfect drives! Read more
**Update** I've passed the year mark with these drives and so far, 'knock knock' they are still working great. I did have a coworker order some similar drives and they were all bad. That was months later and I can't say they were from the same seller. So, it's still a gamble, but they've been great for me. Bought two of these, but I've only installed one so far. It seems to be working well in my Synology. I'm hopeful that the reduced price in exchange for a 'refurbished' drive doesn't end up biting me in the end. The drive came sealed in a static bag and it great condition. It doesn't seem to be any noisier than my other drives and it has passed all health checks I've run on it. I did not check to see if there was any data on the drive before I initialized it in the NAS. Read more
I bought one of these for Time Machine backups. Initially, all seemed well. The drive formatted properly and I did a 1TB Time Machine backup. On attempting to back up a second computer (also 1TB), I encountered an endless cycle of the drive randomly unmounting and backups failing. I ran Disk Utility and got a report that the disk had FAILED Disk First Aid. I finally decided to completely reformat the drive. It would not reformat. I repeated several cycles of trying to reformat and running Disk First Aid. All ended in failure. On trying to order a replacement drive, I encountered one of the least helpful Customer Service representatives ever! Every time I asked a question, I got a long period of silence. On asking the question again, I'd get silence - sometimes followed by an answer. The representative's speech was at times difficult to understand. The return process was byzantine. All of the information I initially entered the first time (when initiating the process) had to be entered again. Then I was given a URL and told to check back in 48 hours. I don't know whether this mess was because I was dealing with Seagate Customer Service or a much-degraded Customer service, but the process itself seemed broken. This drive was supposed to be a Data Center quality NAS drive with 1 MILLION HOURS mean time before failure. I had the drive exactly 2 months (~1440 hours) before it irretrievably failed (and actually was having problems with it for the past month ~720hours). So did I get a lemon? Or is the 1,000,000H MTBF figure a lie? Read more
Great value for the money and they worked perfectly. However they are louder than average. Read more
Very impressed so far - I've had it in my system for over 6 months, no issues, great read/write performance (I use as a home media server), and I'm expecting it to last much longer! Read more
The size and quality of this drive is great, and an incredible value for the price. S.M.A.R.T. showed that it'd hardly been used before I bought it. I've had it in a ZFS raid for a lot time now and it hasn't had a single error show up in SMART and hasn't had any file corruption show up in ZFS scrub. Highly recommend for anyone looking for a RAID drive Read more
The drive works but puts out a decent amount of heat and makes a loud noise. Seems to be completely fine otherwise and in a proper case it's not even worth mentioning, but it does make me feel uneasy. Read more
