Hey, I recently saw a comment on where to buy server hardware (mainly hard drives) sadly I forgot about the URL and didn’t save it. What are you guys favourite places to buy these kind of things? :D
EDIT: I should’ve said for the EU would be heavily preferable since I live in Germany, sorry for the confusion :/
It was probably me. I use these two places + eBay primarily but I’m sure there are other good ones out there.
Edit: also for posterity this is a cool site but shucking drives hasn’t been viable for a long time as far as I’ve seen: https://shucks.top/
Diskprices can be a little wacky sometimes. There are clearly people who are gaming the system. You’ll see something crazy on there, and you click the link and it’s nowhere near what it says.
I always just do drives sorted by best TB/$ value and then skip any company I haven’t heard of and go with the cheapest name brand. Hasn’t failed me yet. Got many drives going on more than a decade of service now.
To back off your post, does anyone have one for Australia?
Serverpartdeals is good. https://www.goharddrive.com/ is another option. Generally slightly more expensive than serverpartdeals, but with better warranty. Both are reputable options
I had a terrible experience with them. They are selling drives that previously failed in the data center, but currently pass manufacturer tests. They also wipe SMART. Or at least, they usually do. That’s how I know the first part. I had 4/3 drives fail on me- all of the original set within my burn-in tests, and 1 replacement (before I returned the others for refund) a year later. The last one was clearly meant to be wiped, but had the error still in the SMART logs.
They did have good customer service at least, but the parts are unreliable garbage that should not be trusted.
