- Need massive storage? The 28 TB hard drive is the current king
- Recentified models appear inexpensively – but they are not exactly fresh from the box
- Some may have worked hard in cryptographic farms before, so check before buying!
If you are looking for a high -capacity hard drive, the Exos range of Seagate will certainly appeal to you. The biggest internal training that you can buy in the retail trade at the moment is the Exos 28 TO hard drive from Seagate – when launched in 2024, it exceeded the holder of the previous record, gold Western Digital, which is maximum at 24 to.
Seagate does not reveal the prices for the 28 TB hard drive, but we have noticed the renovated versions of the reader for sale for a fraction of what you might expect to pay. This is not the first time that these cheaper CMR readers have appeared online, and the same warnings that we have issued them before applying now.
The discs that you will find online like Amazon ($ 379.99), Serverpartdeals ($ 364.99), Ebay in the United Kingdom (£ 578), as well as other third-party retailers, are all recentified models. This means that they are previously used, either feedback from customers who have been inspected, tested and restored in complete operating condition by Seagate or by an authorized third party. In other words, they are not new, but they have been verified to meet functional standards.
Linked to the Chia scandal?
In the case of Seagate’s rectified exos, this means that you get a business quality hdd tested and renovated to a significant discount, but with potentially lower guarantee coverage. The discs that we found on sale “receded in the factory” printed on them, so you know what you get and (depending on where you buy), they could come with a two -year warranty. This is interesting, because Seagate offers an official technical sheet for the re -retributed training of 28 TB, which indicates that it offers only one limit Six month warranty.
There is no doubt that the recentified discs available to buy are at an attractive price, and they should be absolutely good, but if reliability is your absolute priority, you would better collect a brand new unit.
The way all these recentified discs come is something of a mystery, but that would not surprise us if at least some – otherwise most – are from China.
Heise.de recently reported that a number of its readers had bought Seagate readers who were supposed to be new but who had in fact been used before – potentially for thousands of hours. Excavations suggested more suggested that at least some of the discs came from Chinese cryptocurrency farms that used them to exploit Chia several years ago. We do not suggest that the exos 28TB recentified discs were used for the exploitation of cryptography, but it is always a possibility.
When training is renovated and certified by the factory by Seagate, the time to use reliability accessible on the ground (farm) is reset to zero. Heise.de reports that some readers with recentified readers have discovered that their purchases had been used for at least 15,000 hours, which, as, as Tom material Underlines, suggests “that these discs were used, renovated by Seagate, used again, then sold as a freshly renovated models.”
If you decide to buy one of the exos hard drives of 28 to receded, be sure to buy from a renowned dealer, even if it means paying a little more.
Towards the end of January 2025, Seagate added the Exos M 36 TO model to his growing family of hard drives in the data center, making it the largest hard drive available currently, but not one that you can buy (for the ‘Instant). The CEO of Seagate, Dave Mosley, also revealed at the time that the company had managed to test trays of more than 6 TBs, which means that 60 TB could be on the horizon.
