These guys ship fast, and package everything properly and professionally.
Pros: very affordable, reliable (I buy used ones from Rhino Technology all the time, and have yet to have one fail. They're pretty fast, being SAS drives that run 10,000 RPM.
Another pro: Rhino Technology gets them out the door REALLY fast, and packages them beautifully; anti-static bags for each drive, plus anti-static bubble wrap. This is how it's DONE people.
Cons: They come formatted with 520 byte sectors, which is fine for EMC SANs and IBM NetApp, but they don't work for regular 512 b/s general use. ***BUT*** it's easy to reformat them on any linux machine with sg3_utils (install that.) Then run
sg_scan -i to identify the drives by device (e.g. /dev/sg2) and then
sg_format --format -v --size=512 --fmtpinfo=0 /dev/sg2 to format for 512 byte sectors.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned