Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018

Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 by e40 on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @02:06PM (#18971264)

Anyone have a good source of HGST drives? On Amazon, it used to be you could only get them from resellers and some comments complained about getting used drives. I basically stopped buying HDs from Amazon from resellers.

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Example:

THEY ONLY WAY YOU CAN VERIFY THAT YOU DID INDEED RECEIVE THE FULL 5 YEAR HGST WARRANTY IS YOU MUST CALL HGST TECHNICAL SERVICE, GIVE THEM THE SERIAL NUMBER AND ASK IF THE DRIVE IS A NON-OEM, OEM OR REMANUFACTURED.

I have ordered expecting the full 5 year warranty, and verifying with technical service, have discovered - one with over 18,000 hours (from Crystaldiskinfo), several OEM's (no manufacturer warranty), a remanufactured and a full 5 years manufacturer warranty. AND once in awhile I get lucky and received as advertised - a full 5 year manufacturer's warranty.

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 by superhuzza on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:28PM (#18972114)

Agreed. I only buy storage for personal use, but I've learned to avoid Amazon entirely. There are just way too many reports of fake or repackaged HDDs, SSDs, SD cards etc.

I can generally get the same or relatively comparable prices at local computer stores that I trust significantly more than Amazon.

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018 by penagwin on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @04:52PM (#18972932)

Be careful as there are reports of the same issue at Bestbuy(And will be with any store). With the 8TB easystore (and now the 10tb as well) being so cheap, there've been several reports of shucking the drives only to find a lower tier drive or just sand or whatnot.

This includes drives that were shrink-wrapped! I've heard bestbuy re-wraps returns and doesn't check them very well.

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