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To back off your post, does anyone have one for Australia?
And Germany, maybe? Or at least EU.
Oh fuck yeah I should have said that I live in Germany.... Thank you for your comment
Hey, if you would like, I buy from serverpartdeals all the time, I can be a shipping proxy for you since I have access to both US and DE mailing systems.
Bought 160TB from them about a year ago.
Appreciate the offer. I recently only build my home server and I just started to selfhost things Although I am looking on what to expand and when I dont think I will buy Hard drives or something else in the next 2 months for my server
No worries. My offer will still stand. I want to help others into this addiction.
Appreciate it ๐ love it already
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.
They are decommisioned datacenter drives, this could be for a variety of reasons (including errors). There are many discussions online about them wiping smart data.
It depends on your use case, I have a few of their drives in a nas specifically for media. I received one bad drive that failed my burn in tests, which they exchange without issue. All of my important files are stored on a seporate ssd based store.
All depends on your risk tolerence and needs.
https://www.theserverstore.com/
They also have a large ebay presence but I have purchased from both their ebay store, and their web store depending on what I needed.
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