A few days ago, I noticed someone posted a similar question about a specific hard drive on this subreddit. Sadly, I haven’t received any responses about their experience. So, I’m hoping to get some advice from the community on whether anyone has dealt with the seller I’m interested in. I’m in the market for reliable 18 TB drives to upgrade my media server and NAS backup.
I got some new IronWolf Pro series HDDs when there was a good deal on Newegg for $340 Canadian, as I didn’t want to pay full price. However, I’m looking to save some money here and there, though I understand that some might not agree with that. I’ve already spent most of my budget on setting up a strong system for my storage and services.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated, especially if you know of options that work well for Canadians or are available from American companies, with the caveat of dealing with import fees. Thanks in advance!
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Never buy things on capitalist id107 Black Friday, overpriced end of line crap that’ll be cheaper a month later and even cheaper in January sales.
These days the Black Friday sales are just returns to regular prices after pre-BF hikes.
pricey for 18tb i seen similar pricing for 20tb
Just got those basically brand new (20 hours per disk) on ebay for 2/3 the price):
Dell 18TB SATA 6Gb/s 512e 7.2RPM DP/N 0KPVDN New pull brack 8 170,00 0 % 1.360,00 EURWould suggest to just search on other places if you are willing to buy renewed
Get a refurbed 20TB for $200.
You could always take a vacation in the USA and pick up your drives but I guess you still have to convert dollars. But you could make up for the difference by bringing down some of those Canadian drugs all those Americans vacation in Canada for.
i paid 194 usd each for 6 recertified seagate exos last black friday from server parts deals. they run fine raid z2 no doa almost a year later i was told to avoid the dell or off brands. looking at getting another 6 drives this year may not be seagate could be wd have to see pricing but seems at least on server parts deals prices are creepingup
Just buy brand new or use ServerPartsDeal. I hate having to deal with the shitty import fee’s but at least it’s a competent business that will give you a legit decent warranty! Unlike Retail Era who’s owner became a low life scammer. Canada sucks for most home lab equipment, so I feel your pain…
RemindMe! 3 Years
Can’t wait to see these $30.
Me too…!
18 tb 😟
Bought the exact same drives on October 1st.
Two drives for 250CAD each + tax/import fees.
Came out to 574 CAD and then I had the pleasant surprise of getting an email about 2 weeks later saying there was an error with the import fees, and they reimbursed me 48$.
They work great. If I remember correctly one had like 8h of power on time and the other one was a bit more, like 30h or so.
I don’t have suggestions for you, but for some reason I’m doubting that this would be part of a Black Friday sale. While you, I, and a bunch of the responders may be interested, it’s still pretty limited. A smaller, more main stream drive, probably SSD, is much more likely to be on sale. That said, I know the feeling of “I want it now” but it’s only 15 days until Black Friday or 18 until cyber Monday. I’d check the historical exchange rate for end of fall-start of winter and wait if it looks steady or better.
i cant afford a 300 dollar harddisk xD you guys are super rich
I know it sounds crazy but used can be the best… I got a hgst after seeing 1000s at my job still spinning at 100 after 5-7 years , some longer
Having no experience with buying used drives, what does “Amazon renewed” really mean? I find it difficult to believe amazon has tooling and machinery to do any real repairs/refurbishments of drives.