Seagate Amazon Renewed Hard drives

[alfonzzo2004]

Can anyone advise on their experience using Amazon's Seagate Renewed Hard drives? Is it worth the cheap price? Thoughts anyone? Thx

[Gremlin]

Regardless of what they say (and this is the first time I have heard of these drives) I'm pretty sure you cannot (ever) change the smart data - THAT is what it is for. So, they will always be used drives.

[SprintST]

I'd get them from here instead

https://serverpartdeals.com/

Far more reliable IMO

Lot's of youtube videos covering these refurbs

[sianderson]

i would becareful with what seagate hard drives you actually use, make sure they are actually compatible for the NAS

while the Seagate Baraccuda works fine in the F2-210, when i tried the same hard drive in the F2-423 i had issues, really slow reads and whole system was sluggish, trying to copy any data onto it would just drop to 0kb/s then go up a bit and then drop to 0kb/s again, replaced it with a WD hard drive and that solved the issue