Any reason “Manufacturer Recertified” drives would be cheaper than “Seller Refurbished” drives?
Any reason “Manufacturer Recertified” drives would be cheaper than “Seller Refurbished” drives?
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The yellow highlighted is a drive supposedly recertified by Seagate. The green highlighted are refurbished by serverpartdeals. Just wondering why the seemingly more reliable manufacturer certified drives would be considerably cheaper?
I’d be quicker to stick my head into a hive of bees than using a refurbished hdd
Save your nerves and money and don’t buy refurbished hdd
Seller refurbished = wiped the Cheetos dust off and put in the box
SSDs do have an expiration date, they only get so many reads and so many writes until they just plain stop working. This is expected behavior.
I would rather set my genitalia on fire then purchase a refurbished drive with an unknown number of hours and write cycles on it.
I’d rather gargle hot sauce and thumbtacks.
I’d rather wear poison ivy underwear while playing tackle football with no pads against the 1985 Chicago bears.
I’d rather call Putin several bad names and then stand on a Moscow roof for a couple of hours.
I’d rather take 30 laps in an Olympic swimming pool filled with the runoff from the porta potties at a hippie festival.
I’d rather have unprotected marital relations with a hive of angry hornets than purchase a refurbished solid state drive.
Of course, other people may have differing opinions.
Seller wants your money
I have a friends who’s expensive Exos died all the time. Every couple of weeks another one died after purchasing them for a lot of money. He went through 6-8 of them now, first thinking the batch was broken or something just doesn’t seem right.
They always switched them out for free as guaranteed was still going on.
Maybe they fix some mistakes they made and sell them again?
Overall the term Refurbished and Recertified mean one thing – it had some problem, was fixed and now sells for a cheaper price.
Refurbished states that it was repaired, tested and ready to sell.
With Recertified you get additional warranty of 3-6 month or even more which depends on the manufacturer and the piece of hardware.
The Recertified option should be more expensive than a refurbished but… i think it just depends on the seller/retailers greed.
You’re better off getting used drives if you know their origin and story than refurbished ones imo.
Diagnostics will tell a lot but refurbished is also very generic.
It’s worth bearing in mind that you’re looking at three different model numbers, so you can’t necessarily directly compare the prices (even though I would expect very minor differences between the 001G and the 000G).
Looking at the Manufacturer Recertified prices for the other two drives, they’re set to $139.99 but are out of stock – it’s possible that Seagate have set the prices for these, with the seller setting the prices for the other drives (and may be taking advantage of the lack of availability from Seagate).
If you want a used drive go enterprise , built for long use and you can always see the power on time just don’t use it as parity
Better question is where the fuck you getting 14tb for 150 bucks
Seller refurbished wanna make more money.
I’ve got a 16 and 18TB manufacturer recertified Dell Exos in my Plex server and they work great.
The 18TB is the most recent one I picked up, and it had like 18 hours on it when I got it.
They are pretty noisy though. And speeds when copying files on them can be kinda slow. I had a TV series I was copying to the same drive last night, and it took like 90 minutes for 130GB to copy.