Question Someone is upgrading their storage servers.

[jamesdsimone]

Not from GoHardDrive, but I bought three 3TB HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 drives back in 2020 from Amazon. They were listed under Amazon Renewed brand and came with a 5yr warrenty. The power on count was 1 for each drive and the run time was 15, 23, and 22 hours. All three are still running as steam drives in my kids computers. So, I would say for not mission critical data used enterpise drives are great.

No seller is going to take the time and effort(ie money) to wipe the SMART data and then sneakily run the drive for random small number of hours to hide their deception. You got lucky and got new drives.

 

[jamesdsimone]

I checked two of the second batch of drives and they do have more hours and more data read/write on them which backs up my assumption that the lower use drives are shipped first. That would make sense. But the drives still only have about half of their capacity written/read, so not much used.