Where do UK people buy their HDDs from? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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I got a server recently and now I need storage and I’m a little upset seeing the prices of HDDs.

My aim is for 4x10TB to run on RAID 5.

I saw other people linking serverpartdeals and they do ship to the uk but the shipping is insane particularly as I want to buy them one at a time to spread the cost.

So what would you guys suggest? New ones are hella expensive, but I can’t seem to find any decent places selling manufacturer recertified ones.

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[-] thews@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I wanted to reply that snapraid or the equivalent will lead to less wear and tear, and provide reasonable redundancy that you can trigger as needed. It's also a lower electricity bill and allows mismatched drive sizes.

It's also arguably easier to recover data on failures.

Can't help with the drive costs unfortunately.

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