Wholesale Enterprise Hard Drive Supplier

Every drive is tested for SMART health, power on hours and reallocated sector count, then graded on the results. Both the grade and the underlying test data go on the manifest, so you are buying against numbers rather than an adjective.

Those three figures matter for different reasons. Power on hours tell you roughly how much service life the drive has already spent. Reallocated sectors tell you whether the drive has begun failing and quietly mapping around the damage. Overall SMART status catches faults that have already crossed a manufacturer threshold.

A drive with high hours but a clean sector count is a different proposition from a low hour drive that has started reallocating, and the second is the one to treat carefully. Because the raw test data travels with the lot, you can apply your own thresholds rather than accepting ours.

Yes. A large share of our hard drive stock comes out of decommissioned arrays and arrives in the original caddies, so we can ship it that way.

Whether you want them is worth deciding before you buy. If you are populating the same chassis family the drives came from, caddies included is usually the cheaper route, because buying trays separately afterwards often costs more than the drives themselves are worth. If the drives are going into a different platform, or you already hold caddies, taking bare drives keeps both the shipping weight and the price down.

Tell us which way you want it at quote stage and we will price accordingly. If you are not certain what your chassis takes, send the server model and we will work it out rather than leaving you to guess.

Typically from around 100 drives upward, and regularly in the thousands. Storage decommissions come out of data centers in bulk, so hard drives are one of the categories where large quantities are normal rather than exceptional.

Send the full quantity you need rather than a trial number. Volume materially changes what we can put in front of you, because it changes which of our lots can cover it. A request for fifty drives and a request for five thousand of the same model come out of completely different lots, and quoting the small number first can give you a misleading picture of where the real price would land.

If the requirement is phased across a quarter or a year, say so. A committed total with a delivery schedule is easier to price well than a series of unconnected small orders.

Yes. Every drive is securely wiped before dispatch and a certificate of data destruction is available on request.

For spinning disk this is more straightforward than it is for flash, because a hard drive writes to the sectors you address rather than remapping behind a controller. A completed overwrite pass across the full addressable surface, verified afterwards, does the job.

Drives that fail testing badly enough that a wipe cannot be verified are not sold on as drives. Where a buyer requires physical destruction instead of a wipe, that needs stating at the point of enquiry, because it changes what happens to the hardware and therefore what it is worth.

If the certificates are for your own compliance records, ask before the lot ships, so they are produced against the correct serial range rather than reconstructed afterwards.