Like everyone here, I've trawled serverpartdeals and diskprices and the prices are good and acceptable, etc.
However, I'm not in the states and shipping and customs to my country are hiking the prices up between 50% and 70%.
I've come across a local seller who has a few that I could possibly haggle down. Seller says they've been running a couple of years, all seems good and he's willing to provide smart data for each if requested. (I haven't seen any yet though).
Prices for various drives are between €10 and €12 per terabyte.
I'm in a bit of a panic because my two largest drives just failed on scrutiny (both passed smartctl though). The idea is to have important stuff (docs, backups, photos - which are 321 backed up also) on my good drives, and the more expendable, easily replaced stuff (movies, TV, games) on the less favourable ones. So it's not the end of the world if they fail.
Is there a percentage discount any of you would accept under these conditions? Assuming smart data of the seller's drives come back relatively clean, I can ideally pick and choose by serial number.
Or is it just a bad idea all around?