Perhaps the best place in the EU to get affordable drives
I wrote a blog post on my experience, you can look up either me or just Google "Buying some drives from Datablocks".
In short:
- I had a pretty good experience, the drives arrived within about a week and both look and seem to work fine, the prices are lovely; the drive performance is pretty much like new drives too
- there were shipping costs of almost 30 EUR for two drives with DPD, but somehow that still ended up cheaper than buying ONE drive from a local store somehow and they got delivered to my door by a courier
- what is lacking is more info about the drives on their site, the 1TB ones I got were actually 5400 RPM not 7200 RPM, but that was not mentioned anywhere (the model numbers were not listed in the big spec page either); thankfully not a big deal
- they do seem to mostly have larger capacity drives in stock (8TB and up), but the smaller ones less so (1TB almost out of stock at the moment, no 2TB or 4TB at the time of writing); would be really cool if some day we could get SSDs as well, but I appreciate having at least one place in EU to get affordable drives!
- also there's what I assume to be a bad AI background on their main page at the moment, which doesn't really affect anything but made the whole site seem a little bit less trustworthy at first; I can at least confirm that they're a real company and that shopping with them went well
Overall, I do recommend them and I'm really glad that a business like this exists. Definitely using them for all of my storage needs in the future. They don't seem to have that many reviews, so figured I'd write one and post it on the platforms that people use.
