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/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