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Best place to buy server hardware (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey, I recently saw a comment on where to buy server hardware (mainly hard drives) sadly I forgot about the URL and didn't save it. What are you guys favourite places to buy these kind of things? :D

EDIT: I should've said for the EU would be heavily preferable since I live in Germany, sorry for the confusion :/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had a terrible experience with them. They are selling drives that previously failed in the data center, but currently pass manufacturer tests. They also wipe SMART. Or at least, they usually do. That's how I know the first part. I had 4/3 drives fail on me- all of the original set within my burn-in tests, and 1 replacement (before I returned the others for refund) a year later. The last one was clearly meant to be wiped, but had the error still in the SMART logs.

They did have good customer service at least, but the parts are unreliable garbage that should not be trusted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They are decommisioned datacenter drives, this could be for a variety of reasons (including errors). There are many discussions online about them wiping smart data.

It depends on your use case, I have a few of their drives in a nas specifically for media. I received one bad drive that failed my burn in tests, which they exchange without issue. All of my important files are stored on a seporate ssd based store.

All depends on your risk tolerence and needs.