[PLUG-TALK] Western Digital drive recycling

John Jason Jordan johnxj at gmx.com
Fri Jan 15 00:18:38 UTC 2021


On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:11:02 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:

>On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 13:00:01 -0800 (PST)
>Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>
>>On Thu, 14 Jan 2021, John Jason Jordan wrote:
>>
>>> The problem is that WD and Seagate are the only two hard drive
>>> brands that offer a drive with 5-year warranty, although if I
>>> settle for a 3-year warranty I could get a 14TB Toshiba. And
>>> apparently, those are the only three brands of hard drives
>>> available anywhere in the world.

I just discovered that my comment on 5-year warranties is not 100%
correct.

Toshiba sells a 16TB drive (MG08ACA16TE) with a 5-year warranty. It is
also sealed with helium, and offers approximately the same MTBF and
annual workload capacity as the WD Gold drives. However, an Amazon
reviewer said that his drive had etched on the edge that it was
manufactured by HGST, which we know is now part of WD. However, none of
the Toshiba drives appear in the WD online store, so apparently the
marketing is handled by Toshiba. I'm guessing that Toshiba just farmed
out the manufacturing to HGST/WD. For all I know, it's a WD Gold drive
with a Toshiba label slapped on it.

Their biggest drive is 16TB, where I wanted two 18TB drives for my
Synology. However, the Synology functions only as backup for my 31TB
NVMe RAID0 array, so two 16s will do the job.

And the best part is that there are a couple eBay sellers offering them
for a little over $330, which beats the hell out of the prices for WD
and Seagate drives, and even what Amazon and Newegg are charging for
the same Toshiba drive. I have queries out to both eBay sellers asking
how they ship.



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