DIY NAS: HDD Wholesale Buy?

[GregN]

By my count there are at four different folks here looking to populate a DIY NAS, including myself. I suspect there are an additional group of lurkers looking to do the same thing.

If we were all to buy our HDD's together, we could possibly get a real deal, hopefully a steep discount.

I thinking a large number of 2TB drives, probably Hitachi or Samsung, either 5400 or 7600's. Not sure and open to suggestions.

To make it worthwhile we'd have to hit less than $75/drive, I think.

I'm open to input, and ideas, sources, and alike. Does this sound like a good idea?

Anyone want to join in?

 

[GregN]

No interest? CHEAP DISKS HERE?

 

[stevech]

As an individual end user, for the few dollars I might save, the warranty pass through issues are problematic.

 

[GregN]

Ideally the idea would be to get a head count with drive count, then contact a vendor and arrange/negotiate for everyone. Once everyone agrees, each of us make their own purchases with a coupon code or some such.

I don't want to gather cash, distribute and ship drives. Not my idea of a good time.

 

[Livin]

Greg,
Not trying to rain on anything here but the qualities you would likely need to hit to make any reasonable dent in the price would be in the thousands... or more.

Places like NewEgg sell quantities that justify discounts to them. You might be able to negotiate with places like Insight, CDW, etc but again... thousands of drives would need to be purchased. And you still might only save $5-10 per drive as the margin on them is very small at that distribution level.

 

[GregN]

Greg,
Not trying to rain on anything here but the qualities you would likely need to hit to make any reasonable dent in the price would be in the thousands... or more.

Places like NewEgg sell quantities that justify discounts to them. You might be able to negotiate with places like Insight, CDW, etc but again... thousands of drives would need to be purchased. And you still might only save $5-10 per drive as the margin on them is very small at that distribution level.

Looks like you are right. GoHardDrive.com seems to offer some quantity discount, but more than $10 would be tough unless you willing to go OEM/white label or just pulled....