i always steer clear of refurbished drives because they have a short warranty
however, half of the time when i have to RMA a hard drive - i get a refurbished drive as a replacement…but my original 3-5 year warranty is still intact
I bought a pair of these and only one is alive still. Not much faith that these refurbs will work 
Till you notice it refumbles and you lose.
Yeah, seems like a Woot for those who don’t know the realities of hard drives. Refurbished is a one word dealbreaker for most people when it comes to buying a hard drive.
Hmmm…refurb…seagate…nah…
Pay a little more, get peace of mind.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148445
One possible good use for these would be thermite experiments, make up a batch (in a safe location of course) and use it to burn through a whole stack of these.
Every single Seagate Barracuda has failed on me. At first I was excited… then I felt bad. Like the moment you realized you downloaded too much porn.
Every refubered HDD I ever bought, died in a year or less.
I wonder what goes into refurbing. Just throw a new disk in? Leave the old bearings in?
Or maybe they resurface the old disk.
I’d like to know…
Time to Google!
Add SATA + Refurbished = Danger
I haven’t had luck with new ones much less a refurbished one. I agree, turn and run!
What’s a memory drive?
well i dont know about you guys but ive always been a little sketched out about buying a refurbished hard drive. other parts maybe but not the hard drive.
That’s not a great deal if you consider price/GB. You can find much better deals if you wait long enough (like 6 cents/GB) versus this one (7.998 cents/GB).
However, I’ve been running a Seagate on my other computer for almost six years now without any problems, but YMMV always applies for hard drives.
instead of paying 40+5=$45 on woot, pay $55-58 to get 1.5TB
I have a 250G Seagate (referb) and it corrupted ALL the time. Finally I took it out of the enclosure and popped it in my computer and it works fine. Over 2 years and still going.
the Woot.com folks seem to have telepathy. they read my mind that i needed a 500GB 7200 RPM hard drive for my new computer…they even seemed to know that i prefered seagate…
the problem is they probably stop listening or maybe i didn’t specify that i needed a LAPTOP hard drive.
so close, woot, so close…
Wow… Woot selling refurb HDs again. Price per GB is meh. New 1TB HDs are $70
Funny, i’ve bought refurb drives all the time. Slap it in, run spinrite on it for a good maintenance and go.
Only had 1 fail in about 25 over the years that came out of a tivo. hell, might have even been from woot! LOL
PS nice name from for redwood city AND city pub!