Hard drives.... I remember those things... didn't I used to use them before the Great HDD and SSD Extinction of 2025-2026?
Seriously, I had to replace 2 hard drives in my NAS this year like a bad luck lottery and my hard drives have doubled in price. I was terrified that my NVMe was failing as well.
Thankfully for many folks there's the option of going either with whitelabel or recertified drives!
I think for the folks in the US this was a site that works: <a href="https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php
Whereas for those in the EU there's this: <a href="https://datablocks.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://datablocks.dev/
For the second link, you'll have to ignore the horribly tasteless AI slop image for the site background (someone should e-mail them about it or something), the site itself is legit, bought some drives from them: <a href="https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablocks/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablo...
Never buy a recertified drive, talking from my own experience, my recertified Seagate Exos X16 failed exactly after a year. They are very cheap for a reason.
It failed for a reason before, so it will likely fail again before the end of its usual lifecycle.
Melodramatic mutch? The first new IDE HDD I ever bought died within a week. The first new USB HDD I ever bought was dead on arrival. My first server SSD became read only after a year.
Better telling everyone not to buy this things. /s
reenorap · · focus · HN ↗
Seriously, I had to replace 2 hard drives in my NAS this year like a bad luck lottery and my hard drives have doubled in price. I was terrified that my NVMe was failing as well.
KronisLV · · focus · HN ↗
I think for the folks in the US this was a site that works: <a href="https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.goharddrive.com/default.php
Whereas for those in the EU there's this: <a href="https://datablocks.dev/" rel="nofollow">https://datablocks.dev/
For the second link, you'll have to ignore the horribly tasteless AI slop image for the site background (someone should e-mail them about it or something), the site itself is legit, bought some drives from them: <a href="https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablocks/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/buying-some-drives-from-datablo...
nalekberov · · focus · HN ↗
It failed for a reason before, so it will likely fail again before the end of its usual lifecycle.
noAnswer · · focus · HN ↗
Better telling everyone not to buy this things. /s
nalekberov · · focus · HN ↗