Seagate Constellation ES.3 ST4000NM0053 4TB SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 7200RPM 3.5inch Internal Enterprise Hard Drive - 5 Year Warranty (Renewed) $68.50

[funboy6942]

Yeah renewed, but has a 90 day through Amazon, and a 5 year with the seller. Seems pretty good if needing cheap, basic, non important storage, like just to put os on for a cheap build, or what ever.

ENJOY!

Brand New NOT renewed for $79.50

That price is a prime shipped price, may be different if you dont have prime subscription.

 

[funboy6942]

And should it matter at all, for a few dollars less, you can get these I been running in my Drobo box for years, and until I cleaned it the other month and dropped 2 of them onto my floor messing them up, had no reason as of yet to buy more, for they been working flawlessly, just dont drop them Thank the lucky stars my old drobo box holds 5 of them, where killing the 2 didnt make me lose anything :O

They have 64mb cache vs the other having 128.

 

[MisterE]

I bought one of the Hitachis a few days ago, also Amazon renewed same drive but a different link and a different price ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078WJSG4J ). Short term I just needed something to temporarily hold some data from a 10TB drive that I am adding to a hardware RAID-1, but longer term I need drives to add to a hardware RAID-6 on a Dell PERC H710 card. I would normally use Seagate Constellation but was curious about these Hitachis. It works perfectly and wasn't particularly loud running while laying on my computer desk. It was getting a little warm without air flow so I hooked up a little fan to blow over it while I was testing. I haven't hooked the Hitachi up to the H710 RAID card yet so I don't know if the card will complain about the drive or be ok with it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Hitachi UltraStar and Seagate Constellation drives are good stuff.

Thanks for the deal!

 

[CU]

So you have had good luck with refurb enterprise drives? Reviews seem to suggest they wipe the SMART data. So, you don't know how long it has ran. Wish they left it just so you would know. Been thinking about getting a refurb enterprise drive for a steam game drive.

 

[funboy6942]

I have so far, and with the 5 year warranty with them, I get a little piece of mind knowing if something happens I can replace it. Hence why these are used only in my drobo, for it has redundancy and can have 2 drives go bad, though Im told with it when something goes wrong, so I can replace it before I lose my data stored on it. The 2 I dropped I had longer then the 5 years, and it was kinda my fault that they died anyway, but they did, and the other ones I have, are older then 5 years too, and still going, for drobo isnt reporting any problems with them so far.

And I have yet to this day, ever used, looked up the smart data on any of my drives. I know its there, and I enable it in bios if it has it, but Ive never actually "used" it to see whats going on with a drive, and I must be one lucky son of a *shut yo mouth* so far because I have yet to have but one drive fail me over the years, that has started clicking on me, way back in the early 2000's, that I didnt kill with my clumsy hands and drop them killing them off :O

 

[MisterE]

I have 8 refurb Seagate Constellation ES.3 2TB drives in a RAID-6 and they have lasted me a few years without failure.

 

[Raduque]

That's a dang good price for 4tb drives, sadly I have grown beyond them. Amazon also has renewed 8tb HGST drives for $175 each.