Recertified Refurbished White Label Drives Seagate Exos X22 22TB OS OOS HDD Unboxing

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Seagate Exos X22 22TB OS OOS HDD

Unboxing Recertified Whitelabel OOS or OS Seagate Exos X22 22TB HDD 2 pieces bought from datablocks.dev in Netherlands.
I paid full price and shipping - not a sponsored video.

Chapters:
00:00 Seagate Exos X22 22TB Refurbished Drives Shipping Arrived
01:26 Shipping Box
02:42 Box Packing and Drives Protection
06:55 Seagate Exos X22 22TB White Labed Recertified Drives
10:32 How to tell if a Seagate HDD is refurbished
10:51 Seagate Exos White Label Drive Dents and Scratches
11:15 Is it worth buying refurbished drives?
12:19 Seagate Exos X22 22TB Drive Close Look

Thse drives were probably used in a datacenter or were defective.
Returned to Seagate and rebuilt or just inspected.
Sealed and recertified but this OS or OOS type of drive is not good enough to put the branding Seagate Exos on it even as recertified and that's a bit worrying.

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Did Self test with Sea Tools and all ok.
Was going to do the extended test with Sea Tools but decided to use the H2testw tool I usually use that will write the while drive full then read the files to verify.
It takes 20-24 hours to write but can be done at the same time on both.
Then another 20 hours to verify.
Temperature is pretty stable as seen in the test video at around 48 Celsius. One of the drive is in a HDD cage and not well ventilated so it reaches 50 degrees Celsius.

The serial number and model number don't match Seagate Exos X22 22TB but I believe this is normal as Seagate is removing any references to it's brand from these white label hard disks.
I don't know how bad these OS or OOS drives can be but for now they work perfectly.

There is no warranty from Seagate for these drives.
Only a 1 year warranty from the seller / shop so there are risks taken with these.
The price I bought them at is 279 EURO each + shipping.
279 / 22 TB is 12.68 EUR per TB of storage.
It would have been a much better deal at 11 EUR / Terabyte but these are high density and 20TB drives tend to be cheaper.
Still a great deal unless they fail after 12 months.
The usable storage is actually 20TB.

What's a bit worrying is the Read Error Rate S.M.A.R.T. attribute going up and down but still not showing any Windows 11 Drive failure errors and it's above the threshold value so maybe it's a Seagate thing. Usually I buy WD drives but took the bait for these cheaper manufacturer refurbished or recertified drives.

They won't be used a lot but mostly storing data. Still have to do a burn-in stress test to make sure it's not a DOA situation. So far everything seems ok but will update after a while of use.

h2testw
Errors at the last file written on the drives.
Probably it's a bug in the testing tool hopefully.
Verification takes another 20+ hours
After tests finished I got the results, all OK!

So far after doing the write and read tests the drives are ok and the read error rate is usually above 80 so that looks ok to me.

The drive that is cooler usually get a lot warmer when the GPU is working and producing more heat.
I have a PC cooler fan nearby but seems like it's not enough so I will try to move both drives in the drive cage and put a cooling fan to blow directly on the drive as close as possible.
That should keep them happy.
At some point the drive next to the gpu was at 55 degrees Celsius while the GPU was working hard so I had to cancel the GPU tasks until the hard drives finish the Write/Read tests.

Info taken from the seller:
Model: ST22000NM001E
Exos X22 Enterprise
Capacity: 22 TB
SATA
White Label
Seagate product details
Read our blog about the difference between White Label and Recertified hard drives.

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