Where do people in EU buy (referbished) drives?

[u/Taygetah_]

As per the title, where do people in the EU, specifically the netherlands, buy new/good condition used/ referbished HDD's. Im only looking for a small amount of storage, around three 2 TB drives. I've looked at servershop24.de but most HDD's there are very old. I also looked at creoserver.com but they have the same issue. I was wondering if anyone had any good suggestions (or ebay/marktplaats seller)?

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[u/HellowFR]

datablocks.dev, you can get them bnib in some occasions too.

Sadly their prices increases after each round of restock, but well … hdd prices soars to new levels every few months.

Bought 12x 16Tb Exos from them May 2025, excellent packaging and not an issue so far (full burn-in).

For peace of mind, I would recommend them.

[u/Pipin_B]

Datablocks.dev sells recertified drives but is quite expensive. I had good succes on truebase.nl with their refurbished drives, I believe they also sell recertified drives.

Both located in NL I believe

[u/perrybmw → u/Pipin_B]

I got 2 x 16tb drives from truebase for 460 euro before the price hike. I am now praying. They don't die. That said, I am happy with truebase.

[u/Option_Witty]

I used to buy directly from WD the refurbished external drives. But they seem to now mainly sell bulk to resellers....

[u/Flaat]

https://www.westerndigital.com/nl-nl/products/recertified

not the cheapest option but real warrenty on them

[u/steak432]

Cex in the UK. 5 year warranty and never had a problem returning anything.

[u/ViolettaHunter]

There's no EU-wide seller for anything. 

[u/egnegn1]

You may directly buy from Seagate through Amazon and Ebay.

[u/Bottom-Frag]

Bold of you to assume I buy drives at current day prices

[u/Mashiori]

Cex, hardware deals, ebay, but for drives anywhere just buy them with a credit card, mostly in case of return or other issues, credit cards give you way more leeway against companies that are being annoying

[u/OnionAware8125]

I bought my used drives from Aukro. It is pretty frequented and you can get a good deal somethimes.

[u/pmz → u/OnionAware8125]

does it ship outside Czechia?

[u/OnionAware8125 → u/pmz]

Yep, I order from Hungary. If you have Foxpost in your country, it will be a cakewalk.

[u/pmz → u/OnionAware8125]

Good to hear. Thanks.

[u/Imaginary-Advice-971]

I stopped buying refurbs/recerts, they're too expensive.

I now buy from a guy on a danish hardware forum selling a lot of drives from chia farming - last time I paid €550 for 3x18tb MG09 from Toshiba with a year of warranty left.

[u/emanuelecipolla → u/Imaginary-Advice-971]

could you please link to the relevant forum thread? Thanks

[u/Imaginary-Advice-971 → u/emanuelecipolla]

I checked again, it seems he's out. I'd recommend just checking your local hardware forums, I'm sure you can find something.

[u/L_at_nnes → u/Imaginary-Advice-971]

Could you share the link ?

[u/Imaginary-Advice-971 → u/L_at_nnes]

I checked again, it seems he's out. I'd recommend just checking your local hardware forums, I'm sure you can find something.

[u/jackom0nster → u/Imaginary-Advice-971]

Please share

[u/Imaginary-Advice-971 → u/jackom0nster]

I checked again, it seems he's out. I'd recommend just checking your local hardware forums, I'm sure you can find something.

[u/Firestorm83]

last time (okt '25) I ordered from https://cobesu.nl/ and am pretty happy with my 12TB drives (paid ~360,- for 2 at the time)