FS: Storage Hardware Seagate Skyhawk 4TB (SMR) 2y6m warranty

[napstersquest]

Expected Price (Rs)

6000

Shipping from

Pune, Maharashtra

Item Condition

4 out of 5

Payment Options

1. Cash
2. Bank Transfer

Purchase Date

Jan 22, 2023

Shipping Charges

Excluded - at actuals

Have you provided two pics?

1. Yes

Remaining Warranty Period

Approx 2 years and 6 months

Invoice Available?

No

Reason for Sale

Moving to Solid State Storage

Purchased from OLX for personal use. No idea about original purchase date. Invoice is not available and not required by Seagate for warranty purposes. I was using it in Windows Storage Spaces (Raid0). One drive out of two has started showing warnings, so moving to SSD and selling this (good drive) off.
This is an SMR drive, so probably not good for RAID arrays in NAS (e.g. ZFS). But good enough for general purpose storage, games storage, and JBODs, SnapRAID etc.

Please note:
I will pack to the best of my abilities, and I have shipped hard drives before, across India, mostly without issues. In case you find a drive DOA, you can RMA easily. If there is shipping damage (physical damage due to which you can't initiate RMA) to the drives, I will be shipping them with insurance so you will get your full refund. You will have to record an uncut unboxing video for insurance claim like always.

PS: If you have any doubts regarding shipping or packing, refer to my seller feedback on the forum. I take buyer satisfaction very seriously.

 

[Psycho_McCrazy]

Is this a self-managed SMR disk - as in plug and play to regular desktop SATA port - and not through specific controller card. Had read somewhere that SMR disks (some models) needed such a setup...

 

[napstersquest]

Is this a self-managed SMR disk - as in plug and play to regular desktop SATA port - and not through specific controller card. Had read somewhere that SMR disks (some models) needed such a setup...

Not aware of such requirement, and I was using it by directly connecting to motherboard SATA port. Was connected to pibox usb3 adapter for taking these screenshots.

 

[Psycho_McCrazy]

Not aware of such requirement, and I was using it by directly connecting to motherboard SATA port. Was connected to pibox usb3 adapter for taking these screenshots.

This seems to be a device managed (self managed) unit.
I think it would be very good for media and photos etc. storage which isn't changed each and every day....

More reading here:

Shingled magnetic recording - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[napstersquest]

Thanks for confirming and additional info. Just FYI for potential buyers, even though they don't like to advertise as such, most external 4TB HDDs will have SMR drives inside them.
Attaching CrystalDiskMark results as requested by @perma. Drive was connected via PiBox USB3 powered adapter.

 

[Psycho_McCrazy]

YGPM

 

[napstersquest]

Sold to @Psycho_McCrazy. Payment received on Friday. Pickup booked sunday night. Amazon and Shiprocket f*'d up so no pickup for 2 days. Shipped today via DTDC

 

[Psycho_McCrazy]

HDD Shipment received yesterday. Excellent packaging with enough PU foam and Styrofoam stuffing to weather earthquakes... Worked like a charm when plugged in.

 

[napstersquest]

Feedbacks exchanged! Thanks