[GGO]

I buy hard drives based on these reports. Thank you Backblaze.

[Scene_Cast2]

Where do you buy your drives? Last time I was in the market, I couldn't find a reputable seller selling the exact models in the report. I'm afraid that the less reputable sellers (random 3rd party sellers on Amazon) are selling refurbished drives.

I ended up buying a similar sounding but not same model from CDW.

[secabeen]

These are useful data points, but I've found that at my risk tolerance level, I get a lot more TB/$ buying refurbished drives. Amazon has a couple of sellers that specialize in server pulls from datacenters, even after 3 years of minimal use, the vendors provide 5 years of additional warranty to you.

[cm2187]

In europe lambda tek is my goto for enterprise hardware as a retail customer.

[nikisweeting]

Lots of good options here: https://diskprices.com/

[SoftTalker]

And for stuff like this, many companies will have an approved vendor, and you have to buy what they offer or go through a justification for an exception.

[havaloc]

B&H has quite a few

[user_7832]

What's the risk of buying Amazon & running a SMART/crystaldisk test?

[speedgoose]

I don’t buy hard drives based on these reports. I buy SSDs and let my cloud providers deal with hard drives.