External drives are cheaper for a reason. Does anyone question why Seagate would put these drives into an enclosure and sell for a cheaper price than the internal. I can only think of one reason.
a lot of people thought that they were clever, thinking that they had somehow beat the system and were getting their drives cheaper
the reality is that by doing so they completely destroyed any resale value they had
the only option left would be to sell them as “broken/for parts only” (and that is if any trader would be even willing to accept them)
have been kept in ideal conditions
you intentionally broke a consumer product, completely voided any remaining warranty and then ran them 24/7 for an extended period of time (something these disks were definitely not meant to be used for)
Shingled drives. Fine-ish for what we’re doing, less fine for NAS or corporate use. Now that ROI is longer I think we’ve decided it’s a riskier proposition - drive could die before it’s paid off.
Looks like I take that back, Exos isn’t Baracuda. Still with the shorter warranties it’d give me pause.
The length of the warranty is taking into account how such drive is being used. Two things that potentially are key factors to have shorter warranties are that: 1. those drives are potentially banged around a bit, 2. when in the enclosure the air flow is not that great, as such they are not meant to run 24/7 as they run rather hot. However, when you shuck them, and use as internal drives, both problems are most likely gone.
Sure, if such drive dies in the 3-5th year, that is a bummer. But most of us have them running for over a year already, and we don’t see too many of them failing. So, I would just run SMART short test on them and not worry too much.
Yes, there were a couple of guys reporting potentially massive failures. As those are rather isolated reports, I would think that those were user errors (bad PSUs, high temps, shaky location / enclosure (vibration)). Although, it could also be that they were just unlucky and got some crap batch. Still, the fact that they were failing at the same time rather indicates user error (IMO).
You do talk some utter nonsense don’t you, you sound more like a disgruntled dealer. Of course they were getting their drives cheaper, just with caveats, if shucked potentially no warranty (depends were they are located), if not then a shorter warranty, and that’s only relevant if the drive fails.
I’ve shucked plenty of drives, and when I’ve upgraded I’ve sold most of them at greater than £10 a TB, fully disclosing that they have been shucked, the hours they’ve done, and the maximum temperature they endured - I post screenshots, yet I still achieve a good price.
and the tax office…