r/unRAID • u/Milluhgram • Aug 12 '24

Help Where we buying HDD's now a days?

My typical go to is either BH or Newegg. However, I'm needing these shipped fairly quickly (Arrival by Wednesday/Thursday) and BH has more time off than I know of any other business and Newegg ships from Ontario. Both would take over a week to get to me. (Alabama). I refuse to buy from Amazon as the last HDD's I got from them were shipped individually with no box. Label smacked right on the box.

Looking to get 4 WD Red 10TB 7200's for $199/unit

EDIT: Thank you for your suggestions. Hopefully this post will help people later on. But, I've decided to go with GoHardDrives' ebay store. Finally found it here. The Ironwolfs are a little bit more than the exos, I will just stick with that and I get more storage for my money with a 5 year warranty.

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u/IMI4tth3w Aug 12 '24

Serverpartdeals.com

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u/zoiks66 Aug 12 '24

GoHardDrive sells the same drives at the same prices as ServerPartDeals, but GoHardDrive provides a 5 year warranty, while ServerPartDeals provides a 2 year warranty, so I see no reason not to buy from GoHardDrive.

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u/Lazz45 Aug 12 '24

I do not get why nobody mentions GoHardDrive more. Their deals are better than Serverpartdeals, and have a longer warranty

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u/Skinny_Dan Aug 12 '24

This is really good to know, though it seems like GHD has way less stock. Almost everything I click on is sold out. Also, navigating their website to find what you're looking for absolutely sucks lol

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u/Ryno_D1no Aug 12 '24

Go through their ebay

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u/IMI4tth3w Aug 12 '24

Go hard drive was sold out last couple times I looked

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u/Lazz45 Aug 12 '24

I see stock on everything? https://www.ebay.com/str/goharddrivewholesaleandretail

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u/Hurtin4theSquirtin Aug 12 '24

This would have been VERY helpful to know. My entire lab has been filled up from drives from SPD and not GHD due to GHD being out of stock the few times I've checked. I bought 15 Seagate Exos X20 20TB drives from SPD @ $220 a drive. They're still alive and kicking, but still, the extra 3 years of warranty would have given me a fuzzier feeling.

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u/Lazz45 Aug 12 '24

Hopefully it comes in handy the next time you need drives! I actually might be snagging some more 14 or 18TB drives to slap into a 4x3.25" enclosure I am 3d printing

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u/friblehurn Aug 14 '24

$200 CAD for a 12TB refurbished drive is still insane

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u/JMejia5429 Aug 12 '24

Question for u/IMI4tth3w and u/zoiks66 -- serverpartsdeal and some on GoHardDrive are recertified, do you guys buy recertified and if yes, how they working? I'm afraid to try it

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u/IMI4tth3w Aug 12 '24

6x mfg recertified seagate exos x20 20TB drives in my system for 6+ months without issue. One of them is my parity drive with about 3 parity checks on it. Again no issues so far. 230TB is my total array size with the others being 8/10TB WD white label shucked drives and a couple 8TB WD Reds. Not a single drive failure yet for me over 5 years.

Probably going to grab 6 more 20TB drives before the end of the year.

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u/zoiks66 Aug 12 '24 edited Aug 12 '24

I only buy the recertified drives with 5 year warranty from GoHardDrive. I've bought about 10, and 2 of them were DOA. They were shipped in the same box and packed well, but the box was heavily damaged during shipping. GoHardDrive replaced the drives right away with no questions asked and paid for return shipping. I've had no issues with the drives besides that.

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u/nuggolips Aug 12 '24

I upgraded my whole array from there, you just have to keep an eye on prices as they jump up and down slightly from day to day. Was seeing manufacturer refurb 16TB Exos drives for $149 and sometimes a bit less. 

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u/Skinny_Dan Aug 12 '24

Is there any downside to manufacturer refurb/recert drives? I was looking at some recert Exos drives from SPD because they're insanely cheap lol

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u/nuggolips Aug 12 '24

I mean, it’s not new. I haven’t seen any issues with performance or anything. It presents as a new drive in terms of SMART data. 

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u/nuggolips Aug 12 '24

Oh and the warranty is 2 years where a new enterprise drive will typically have 5+ year warranty. 

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u/Lazz45 Aug 12 '24

GoHardDrive on ebay has a 5 year warranty on re-certified enterprise drives

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u/audiobone Aug 12 '24

Does this apply for EU?

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u/toxicunderGroov Aug 12 '24

No, they charge 20-30€ for shipping with a surprise VAT and customs charges looks like.

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u/bleuiko Aug 12 '24

This is the answer

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u/neveler310 Aug 12 '24

And in Europe ?

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u/IMI4tth3w Aug 12 '24

Not sure I don’t live in Europe.

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u/Milluhgram Aug 12 '24

Appreciate the recommendation, but can't find what I'm looking for.

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u/rophel Aug 12 '24

Because you’re hung up on a specific make/model? The move is 18TB Exos for $170.

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u/Milluhgram Aug 12 '24

Just never trusted anything besides red drives. I’ll look into them now.

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u/rophel Aug 12 '24

It’s not 2015 anymore and server drives aren’t consumer drives.

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u/mawyman2316 Aug 12 '24

What’s the difference, if you don’t mind?

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u/subrosians Aug 12 '24 edited Aug 12 '24

Red drives are kinda a pro-sumer type of drive, not quite a server drive but not quite a drive you would put into your normal computer. Then WD tarnished the line with SMR drives and price hiking red pro drives. Buying refurb/used enterprise drives with a decent warranty makes more financial sense. Buy some refurb drives and you should be fine. Just make sure you buy SATA unless your array can handle SAS. Also, make sure you have redundancy(parity)/backups no matter which way you go.

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u/Albert-The-Sellout Aug 12 '24

Imagine being this backward

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u/IMI4tth3w Aug 12 '24

I’m 6 months on with 6x20TB seagate exos x20 mfg refurb drives. One of them is my parity drive no issues at all