I have not one but two Norco RPC 4224`s each holding 24 drives (In the hot swap bays) and I want to completely fill one and put about 8 drives in the other. They need to be enterprise drives, however, I don’t need SAS 12gb, SAS 6gb or SATA will work for my needs. Plus my HBA and backplane are 6gbs anyways. it won’t make a lot of sense and it would cost a lot of cents. lol
as usual, I went to our future ruler Amazon and had them send me a quote this is what they sent:
However, I was hoping to get a bulk order discount. Even if I have to order more drives.
I am not married to the 7E8/EXOS this is what im looking for in a drive:
Enterprise-grade rated for 24/7
3/5 Year warranty
8TB (seems to be the most cost effective)
SAS or SATA
Reliable
If you have any links or know of any discounts/deals I would greatly appreciate it!
Yes i like that idea, There should be a couple people in need of some quality drives, and doing a group buy like massdrop could get us a nice price cut.
I got my current drives from a black friday sale 2 years ago and i bought some drives again while on sale of a local catering / gastronomy shop who also have non-food items
If you’re ordering that many disks, I would try to talk directly with a manufacturer and see if you can get a bulk discount. I’ve only ever bought in quantities of 10 or less or 500+, so I don’t know how the 24/48 quantity will be treated.
If it’s for business though, they’ll probably give you a good deal. I’ve had good experiences with the 8tb ironwolf pros in my companies data center for the last year or so. 2048 spindles, only 12 failures, 7 of them were sids.
Volume discounts work by climbing the supply chain and taking on more and more costs of logistics.
I find it unlikely you’ll be able to get any worthwhile discount for just 50-100 drives. You could probably get 10-20% off if you ordered a palette and a 50% off of you’re ordering a significant part of production directly from manufacturer.