What’s the catch? This is the best deal I can find on the internet by a fair margin. This seller has an amazon store page as well and seems to have a good reputation on both. The seller claims its a new HDD from a reputable brand and offers a 5 year sellers warranty.
34k customers and a 100% positive approval rating? Not one person in all those customers was even neutral about their purchase? Super fishy. That seems not possible. I’m guessing this is a total scam just from that.
Edit: after scrolling this sellers feedback it all looks legit. That’s just so rare to have 100% with that many reviews.
I mean, if I was selling new hardware for that cheap too, I would probably have a high approval rating.
The catch is that they’re Seagate drives. Seagate have some of worst reliability in the industry and you’re buying it secondhand from eBay.
Personally I’d rather just set my money on fire.
That’s a good point. According to BackBlaze’s Q1 2023 report Seagate drives have a 2.28% annualized failure rate. Which is quite a bit higher than the next closest comparison HGST which has a 1.1% afr.
That risk seems worth it to me at this level of discount.
Hey at that price it’s at least not a huge loss if they only last a few years. Best not to keep anything you can’t replace on them anyway.