Newegg is consistently absurd, I gave up on them for drives ages ago.

I’d just suggest looking past Seagate, WD’s ‘buy 2’ bundle deals are consistently among the lowest I can find on new drives up here. 2x 18TB Red Pro are on for $375 CAD/drive right now (20.83/TB).

But they run different bundles all year, I picked up 4x 20TB this year with those deals. Those were $410 (20.5/TB) in June or July, then $420/drive a couple weeks ago ($21/TB).

Ships from the US, but it’s via UPS Worldwide Saver that avoids brokerage fees. Paid nothing extra both times.

Newegg is consistently absurd, I gave up on them for drives ages ago.

I’d just suggest looking past Seagate, WD’s ‘buy 2’ bundle deals are consistently among the lowest I can find on new drives up here. 2x 18TB Red Pro are on for $375 CAD/drive right now (20.83/TB).

But they run different bundles all year, I picked up 4x 20TB this year with those deals. Those were $410 (20.5/TB) in June or July, then $420/drive a couple weeks ago ($21/TB).

Ships from the US, but it’s via UPS Worldwide Saver that avoids brokerage fees. Paid nothing extra both times.

Only reinforcing the first comment here, one of the very few seller reviews where things didn’t work out is “Drive failed after a day of use. Amazon support refused to give contact for seller. So much for “5 year warranty by reseller”.”

If you look the seller up on US Amazon they’re apparently operating out of a 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath house in a california suburb, which is also 100% totally not suspicious.

An ebay store front is not necessarily problematic, the established favourites like ServerPartDeals or GoHardDrive both have their own sites and ebay/amazon pages. Just don’t buy from unknown randos and expect them to honour a warranty.