Question Seagate IronWolf Pro Factory Recertified

[penihau]

Seagate 16Tb IronWolf Pro disks are being offered as a Factory Recertified option. Does anyone have any experience with these?
I have bought x5 as I couldn't resist the Tb/$ offer.

I am installing them onto a Synology 1515+ 5 slot RAID 5, replacing WD Red Pro 4Tb's. First disk swapped in and repaired the Raid 5 no problems. 2nd disk crashed immediately, was tagged as CRASHED on the Diskstation and is dead. Diskstation alarmed and I swapped old 4Tb back and recovered. I am now working through the replacement of the 3rd 16Tb into the 2nd of the 5 slots.

As an aside, I discovered that the 16Tb IronWolf standard is tested as compatible on ds15xx but not the IronWolf Pro 16Tb.

 

[DSzymborski]

Well, *where* did you obtain the HDDs from?

 

[penihau]

Well, *where* did you obtain the HDDs from?

Huge Computer/Tech store here in Finland -

I believe the offering is from Seagate themselves - not local. As I understand they are tested and certified by Seagate themselves.

 

[fzabkar]

I'm wondering why the drives needed to be recertified. If the PCB was faulty, then I would have faith in the repair. Otherwise, if there was an internal fault, I would not trust the drive. That's because these are helium models. I can't imagine that physical repairs would be economically justifiable, so I expect that any bad heads would simply be switched off and the drive would then be recertified at a reduced capacity.

Just to give you an idea as to the sort of thing that HDD manufacturers do, here is a drive that appears to have begun life as a 2TB, 6 head, SATA model, and was subsequently recertified as a 1TB, 3 head SAS model, with the first 3 heads being switched off.

https://groups.google.com/g/datarecoverycertification/c/ZM1Yghm9rV4/m/r3jKEptmAQAJ

 

[DSzymborski]

Huge Computer/Tech store here in Finland -

I believe the offering is from Seagate themselves - not local. As I understand they are tested and certified by Seagate themselves.

Is there any kind of a warranty with this refurbished? Understandably it wouldn't be the same as a new drive, but if Seagate did it, there ought to be *some* kind of warranty. I'm unaware of any compatibility issue that would cause these issues.