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What exactly are these drives?

Wanna pick up a ultra cheap hdd for the PC I'm selling and they're only $25...

 

Hey PANICPR0NE,
 
WD Re3 is an enterprise-class drive from the older Western Digital line. It is designed for both performance and reliability and is great for servers, RAID arrays and demanding applications. Here's some more info on it: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=WLLxwF
 
Although pretty old, I would say that WD Re3 are great drives and if you can find it at a lower price, I would say that this is a good deal. :)
 
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What exactly are these drives?

Wanna pick up a ultra cheap hdd for the PC I'm selling and they're only $25...

 

Re drives are great. They are enterprise drives. Where are you finding them for 25 bucks?

The projects never end in my line of work.

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Amazon with 2 day shipping.

Idk if the hard drive will help it sell but I figured a hdd was a good place to start...

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001ALNQ2W/?tag=pcpapi-20

 

Oh it's only a 250gb? That won't help it sell.. a 1TB one would, but people will discount it because of that tiny drive.

The projects never end in my line of work.

CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2650v2 || GPU: Dual Quadro K5000 || Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 || RAM: 64GB Corsair Vengeance || Monitors: Dual LG 34UM95, NEC MultiSync EA244UHD || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 Pro 256GB in Raid 0, 6x WD Re 4TB in Raid 1 || Sound: Xonar Essense STX (Mainly for Troubleshooting and listening test) || PSU: Corsair Ax1500i

CPU: Core i7 5820k @ 4.7GHz || GPU: Dual Titan X || Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe || RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport || Monitors: MX299Q, 29UB65, LG 34UM95 || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB in Raid 0, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, 2TB Toshiba scratch disk, 3TB Seagate Barracuda || PSU: EVGA 1000w PS Platinum

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WD RE3 drives are rather old. They were succeeded by the RE4, which in turn were

succeeded by the current RE (which, technically speaking, would be the RE5, but

they dropped the numbering).

Apparently the RE3 came out in fall 2008, based on this review's date:

http://techreport.com/review/15588/western-digital-re3-hard-drive

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Still, excellent drives though. The newest are better, but still solid.

The projects never end in my line of work.

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CPU: Core i7 5820k @ 4.7GHz || GPU: Dual Titan X || Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe || RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport || Monitors: MX299Q, 29UB65, LG 34UM95 || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB in Raid 0, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, 2TB Toshiba scratch disk, 3TB Seagate Barracuda || PSU: EVGA 1000w PS Platinum

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There's a 1tb re4 used for $40...

 

This may be me.. but avoid used drives like the plague. You don't know how much they've been used, and how much life is left.

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CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2650v2 || GPU: Dual Quadro K5000 || Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 || RAM: 64GB Corsair Vengeance || Monitors: Dual LG 34UM95, NEC MultiSync EA244UHD || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 Pro 256GB in Raid 0, 6x WD Re 4TB in Raid 1 || Sound: Xonar Essense STX (Mainly for Troubleshooting and listening test) || PSU: Corsair Ax1500i

CPU: Core i7 5820k @ 4.7GHz || GPU: Dual Titan X || Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe || RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport || Monitors: MX299Q, 29UB65, LG 34UM95 || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB in Raid 0, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, 2TB Toshiba scratch disk, 3TB Seagate Barracuda || PSU: EVGA 1000w PS Platinum

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Still, excellent drives though. The newest are better, but still solid.

 

As long as the performance meets your requirement and the drive is actually new,

it could still be a viable option, yes. I can't make this decision for OP though. ;)

 

There's a 1tb re4 used for $40...

I have some RE4s, very nice drives, yes.

EDIT:

I would however avoid used drives.

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Green drives are $50 new but not sure of the quality of those either lol

I've only used barracudas and wd blue drives...

 

WD greens are a lot better than they used to be.

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CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2650v2 || GPU: Dual Quadro K5000 || Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 || RAM: 64GB Corsair Vengeance || Monitors: Dual LG 34UM95, NEC MultiSync EA244UHD || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 Pro 256GB in Raid 0, 6x WD Re 4TB in Raid 1 || Sound: Xonar Essense STX (Mainly for Troubleshooting and listening test) || PSU: Corsair Ax1500i

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Green drives are $50 new but not sure of the quality of those either lol

I've only used barracudas and wd blue drives...

Greens are fine as long as you don't need super speed or RAID. In fact, newer

greens with higher platter densities might be faster than older 7.2k drives

(I haven't checked, somebody probably should before making a decision).

I have a few Greens, they've been running fine for quite a while now. :)

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Greens are fine as long as you don't need super speed or RAID. In fact, newergreens with higher platter densities might be faster than older 7.2k drives(I haven't checked, somebody probably should before making a decision).I have a few Greens, they've been running fine for quite a while now. :)

I literally just need a hdd to shove in this PC to sell it...

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I literally just need a hdd to shove in this PC to sell it...

 

I would recommend at least a 1TB drive. Under that, it's not really worth it.

The projects never end in my line of work.

CPU: Dual Xeon E5-2650v2 || GPU: Dual Quadro K5000 || Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 || RAM: 64GB Corsair Vengeance || Monitors: Dual LG 34UM95, NEC MultiSync EA244UHD || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 Pro 256GB in Raid 0, 6x WD Re 4TB in Raid 1 || Sound: Xonar Essense STX (Mainly for Troubleshooting and listening test) || PSU: Corsair Ax1500i

CPU: Core i7 5820k @ 4.7GHz || GPU: Dual Titan X || Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe || RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport || Monitors: MX299Q, 29UB65, LG 34UM95 || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB in Raid 0, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, 2TB Toshiba scratch disk, 3TB Seagate Barracuda || PSU: EVGA 1000w PS Platinum

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I might clean up one of my blues and stick it in there then get me a green later...

 

If you do that, I'd use a program that can actually zero out the drive.

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CPU: Core i7 5820k @ 4.7GHz || GPU: Dual Titan X || Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe || RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport || Monitors: MX299Q, 29UB65, LG 34UM95 || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB in Raid 0, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, 2TB Toshiba scratch disk, 3TB Seagate Barracuda || PSU: EVGA 1000w PS Platinum

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Umm I just reformatted it

 

Reformat isn't zeroing it out. Search for "zero fill hard drive", several manufacturers make software to do it. Reformatting it won't make all data inaccessible.

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CPU: Core i7 5820k @ 4.7GHz || GPU: Dual Titan X || Motherboard: Asus X99 Deluxe || RAM: 32GB Crucial Ballistix Sport || Monitors: MX299Q, 29UB65, LG 34UM95 || Storage: Dual Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB in Raid 0, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, 2TB Toshiba scratch disk, 3TB Seagate Barracuda || PSU: EVGA 1000w PS Platinum

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Only thing saved on the HDD was a picture of a screen shot on something I was selling so worth zeroing?

Reformat isn't zeroing it out. Search for "zero fill hard drive", several manufacturers make software to do it. Reformatting it won't make all data inaccessible.

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What exactly are these drives?

Wanna pick up a ultra cheap hdd for the PC I'm selling and they're only $25...

 

Hey PANICPR0NE,
 
WD Re3 is an enterprise-class drive from the older Western Digital line. It is designed for both performance and reliability and is great for servers, RAID arrays and demanding applications. Here's some more info on it: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=WLLxwF
 
Although pretty old, I would say that WD Re3 are great drives and if you can find it at a lower price, I would say that this is a good deal. :)
 
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