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Place to buy refurbished HDDs in Europe (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by DAndreyD@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Looking at other posts, the most suggested place to get refurbished drives is ServerPartDeals but the shipping + tax to Europe is brutal.

I found this one but he has only 35 drives sold: https://www.ebay.it/itm/404523811058?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=LLFi6ZEISiG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=DzL4hzgbRtu&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Does anyone have specific eBay seller or place to recommend that is Europe based?

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[–] erm_what_@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

They don't get sold so much because the EU holds sellers accountable for faulty products a lot more. Plus GDPR makes it simpler to shred drives than wipe and resell them.

[–] neOwx@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've bought some on Alternate, and I don't have any problem. But contrary to serverdealpart I don't think there is a 2years guarantee.

[–] DAndreyD@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Looking now, they have 12TB Exos for 160€ but don't ship outside Germany...