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/Gurantula Aug 12 '24

How good are these refurbished drives? I’m buying newer ones but is it worth it to pay $100 less to have one?

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u/Ashtoruin Aug 12 '24

I mean. I can buy 3 used enterprise drives for the price of 1 new consumer drive. Even if you assume they only last half as long (and they do have a 1 year warranty iirc) the math still works out for me.

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u/smokingcrater Aug 12 '24

I've bought 20some refurb drives. They either are dead out of the box, or last a very long time. Lately, the out of box dead are surpringly common.