They are used right? That’s a good but realistic price for a 5+ year old retired enterprise 8tb drive.

Run extended smart tests on em.

Very very high chance they are fake. The smart data can be wiped. Also they can modify it so it looks like the drive has 8tb space but really it doesn’t and you won’t know until you try and load data to it.

But really, 8tb for $35? Come on, that’s the definition of “if it sounds too good…”.

SMART Stats?

It’s like buying a car and asking “did a get a good deal” without stating anything about the car.

Definitely check SMART, but don’t post it here per Rule #9. Post at r/techsupport

9. r/techsupport exists.

r/Datahoarder is not a sub for tech support,

r/techsupport is for posts which could have been a google search, e.g. a post with CrystalDiskInfo screenshots with the title “is my drive ok?”. Literally every question about SMART status*. Audio recordings of “is this click noise normal?” More technical questions are allowed, e.g. “what is the optimal ZFS configuration of a 24 disk array” or “how else can i automate the archiving of this [thing]”*

Hope for the best. Expect the worst.

There are a ton of 8/10tb SAS drives hitting market right now. Most are reman FRUs from what I’ve seen. I’ve bought about a dozen myself with good luck so far.