Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD 10TB (Helium) 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 256 MB Cache Internal Bare Drive (ST10000NM0016) (Renewed)

Purchased two of them to replace old seagate 4tb drives in my Synology NAS DS216play... Time from order date to receipt = 3 days... Had (2) seagate 4tb drives in DS216 in SHR raid config with one of the original drives in "Crashed" status... Replaced the crashed drive first - took about 9 hours to complete. volume repair.. Had no troubles replacing crashed drive with 10tb EXOS drive... raid volume still showed 3.5TB capacity... Replaced second 4tb seagate with 10tb EXOS (took about 6.5 hrs... Raid volume now shows 9.1tb... NAS is running now flawlessly (with no degraded volume) , with almost triple capacity, and all for just over $200... These refurbs are fantastic and will keep close eye on longevity... These EXOS drives are not on Synology compatibility list but only difficulty i had installing was no second screw hole in drive case to to match synology drive mount bracket - for me was not a big deal... Also the ds216 play is only rated for max of 8 tb drive size (total drive size 16tb),,, checked with Synology tech support and they confirmed the 216 play supports max 20tb (Exos 10tb x2)... Drive speed is more than adequate for 1080P HD video playback , haven't tried it with 4k or 8 k but should be no problem...

OK! I've said it before; I'm saying it again! These drives are a killer deal for the money, as far as I'm concerned. I like to think of these drives as rich peoples' leftovers! (Or maybe the rich guys are all upgrading to 20 TB SSD's we don't even know about, or something...)I have 4 NAS's - 3 Asustors and a Synology. I phased out my Terramaster when I got the second Asustor 4 bay; I didn't like it enough - even though it still works. Over the years, I have slowly gotten Iron Wolf and Exos hard drives. At this point, everything was all set except when I got done, I only had two 10 TB Exos hdd's and two 6 TB Iron Wolf's for the Synology. So I jumped on (two of) these 10 TB Exos' when I found them!! (I'll admit I was looking for them.) The point I'm making is that I've gotten at least 16 Iron Wolf and Exos hdd's over the years - most of them "renewed". I still have two 4 TB Iron Wolf's left over and two 6 TB Iron Wolf's in my computer. I've have NEVER had any trouble with any of them. Either I'm the luckiest guy on the planet or Seagate has turned things around since I was a young man, and is now making good hard drives! Seems like in order for there to be this many of them, renewed, they have to be good drives.I like these Exos' better than the Iron Wolf's. Lighter and less power hungry is always a good thing AFAIC. Helium filled is good. The real killer, though, is that the Iron Wolf's I have, have got a 1 million hour MTBF (Mean Time Between Fails) rating, and the refurbished Exos drives I have, have a 2.5 million hour MTBF rating, for less money! No-Brainer for me!They got here very quickly (from Cal). I let them warm up a little. I yanked a 6 TB drive out of the Synology, waited for it to start beeping and going, "RAID DEGRADED". I slid in one of these 10 TB Exos drives and just let it do its thing. When that was done (hours and hours later), I did the same thing with the other remaining 6 TB drive - slid in the other one of these, and waited a very long time again. Finally DONE! After running for over three days without a single error, I now have a 27.3 Terabyte RAID in the Synology! NO ERRORS; NOT ONE; completely "GOOD"!! All my data (which I'd backed up, just in case) was still there! (It's a Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) with single drive redundancy.)And the company seems to be great! ("goHardDrive") Insured priority mail and all kinds of contact info in the box, stressing how badly they want me to be happy. Very well packed in sealed electrostatic envelopes and bubble wrap. The only way I could be happier is if someone had given them to me for free. (But then I would probably be chewing my nails, expecting them to break any minute...)One of life's few remaining better deals nowadays!

So 13 months on a refurbished drive.. just seems like it should be better. I bought 2 in march 2024 and created a raid 1 array. one drive failed April 2025 .. ot of warranty for the vendor and seagate themselves.Value for money just doesn't make sense.. just bought a new drive (X18 series) to replace this... I don't know what to epxect out of the second drive from this purchase, but I'll have a new drive as part of my mirrored raid array going forward.

In terms of cost. It's really good I'm using this to daily drive my video games such as helldiver2 and cyberpunk. It works good for storing all my games from steam 10/10

Garbadge, SMART is not well

A few months in of using it, and it's working fine.

Great space and good deal. But the thing is NOISY. I thought one of my fans was going out, or maybe the water pipes were knocking.. That's sitting next to it. I'll give it a day or two to decide if it's tolerable.

I got this to store all my images and video games, and it does exactly that. I have downloaded 120+ games in ny library and store all my photography on it. It's surprisingly good at running games off it, even playing warzone jumping between matches I rarely saw textures loading too slowly.