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HGST 7k4000 4TB drives?

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Is anybody using these drives? They are really dropping in price. Close to $210 for an enterprise 4TB drive is very tempting. I know that they are a few years old and probably being replaced by a more expensive 7K6000 series.
 
They are very reliable. I have 32 of them and they are doing great. I can set you up with the guy I get mine from if needed. Good luck!
 
Be careful there. ServerSupply.com is pretty shady. Lots of refurbs, grey market, etc.. They hosed me once and I had to go to my CC company with a dispute to get my money back. Looking through the various listings of 4TB 7K4000 offerings, it seems the ones that are actually truly new with real USA 5-year warranty are $390 each. I didn't see any for $205. Not 4TB UltraStars. There were some 4TB DeskStar units for $202~$215, all say new, but they have different item and stock numbers and I'm betting they're all grey market or refurbs or overstock crap. Besides, that's not even a good price on DeskStars -- they say UltraStars in the description, but some of them are showing Mfg part numbers for DeskStar units. Anyway, just saying buyer beware.
 
Jeff Kilgroe said:
Be careful there. ServerSupply.com is pretty shady. Lots of refurbs, grey market, etc.. They hosed me once and I had to go to my CC company with a dispute to get my money back. Looking through the various listings of 4TB 7K4000 offerings, it seems the ones that are actually truly new with real USA 5-year warranty are $390 each. I didn't see any for $205. Not 4TB UltraStars. There were some 4TB DeskStar units for $202~$215, all say new, but they have different item and stock numbers and I'm betting they're all grey market or refurbs or overstock crap. Besides, that's not even a good price on DeskStars -- they say UltraStars in the description, but some of them are showing Mfg part numbers for DeskStar units. Anyway, just saying buyer beware.
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Thanks for the heads up!
 
November 28, 2015

Item: HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 HUS724040ALE640(0F14683) 4TB
Price: $259 each

I see these and bought four of them from Newegg at $259 each & Free Shipping at NewEgg....they in fact carry the 5 year warranty as well.
This was WAY to good a deal to pass up since i almost bought them from OWC at $327 each.

Next I'll order Seagate item:
Seagate 4 TB Constellation ES.3 Enterprise 3.5" SATA Internal Hard Drive ---these are $249 & Free shipping and have 128mb cache compared to Ultrastar 64mb Cache. Does anyone have an opinion of these Seagate Enterprise drives? I only notice the 2million hour of Ultra Star versus 1.4 million MTBF hours....I have never used the Seagates and happy with HGST in past. Anyone???

Ultrastar Link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ..._enterprise_hard_drive-_-22-145-622-_-Product

Seagate Link: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/929905-REG/seagate_st4000nm0033_4tb_3_5_entrprse_es_3.html
 
Good price there at $259. :)

I have used the Seagate Constellation 1TB and 2TB units. They have been fine... No personal experience with 3TB and larger of those, though. Reliability of drives seems to change between manufacturer and models of drives. Units that come out later in a product's life cycle seem to be more reliable, but not always. Every now and then, some manufacturers release a product or series of products that are crappy or have a lot of failures -- Seagate 1.5TB drives are probably the worst run of drives in recent years, didn't matter which specific model or production run, they were all crap. Had a lot of bad luck with 2TB Hitachi drives in '09~'11.

Even when drives are "good" they're still a complex mechanism with a lot of [fast] moving parts. They will eventually fail, it is inevitable. And the occasional lemon or DOA drive happens, no matter how good the specific product may be.
 
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