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!
These days the Black Friday sales are just returns to regular prices after pre-BF hikes.
A classic move for Black Friday is that retailers will mark up to mark down. If you like the price for this, I say go for it.
pricey for 18tb i seen similar pricing for 20tb
i cant afford a 300 dollar harddisk xD you guys are super rich
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 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.
Today: $319
BF:$399$319Having 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.
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
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
I’ll never trust an HDD again.
“Amazon renewed”
Considering Amazon’s spotty track record when it comes to hardware, I wouldn’t be eager to jump on that one.
Be careful with EMC drives. A lot of them have firmware that only allows them to work in an EMC system.
30% APR ?? Gee thanks Amazon
Yeah it’s funny. Amazon stopped doing their 0% apr plans and stuck with a company that does payment plans. I guess a lot of folks have been taking advantage of it so now they use a secondary company … pretty scummy tho