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wholesale hard drives

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  • 28-07-2012 6:28pm
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    dclewis
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭


    I was just wondering if anybody knows where I can buy wholesale hard drives and enclosures I'm having a bit of difficulty finding them online


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    TheCostumeShop.ie: Ronan
    Company Representative Posts: 1,740 ✭✭✭TheCostumeShop.ie: Ronan


    Thats a bit open ended, but i know a few manufactures of this kind of thing. What type, style, spec, purpose are you looking for? Is it to utilize or resell? OEM, branded, non branded etc?


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    dclewis
    Registered Users Posts: 128 ✭✭dclewis


    I was mainly looking at the cases to resell. also would think about selling hard drives to. for the cases I am looking for the cheapest I can find. brand doesn't matter


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    Marty_McFly
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    You could check out some of the Asian wholesalers like this one.

    Be careful though as you get lots of dodgy sellers on them.


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    TheCostumeShop.ie: Ronan
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    Try CSM Peripherials. Fantastic company with a great Irish routes. I buy from them when building stuff and the Group Director is a cool guy.

    Careful though, it's a very very competitive industry and margins are small. I'm sure a lot of people will suggest to buy in from china, but frankly unless you have an eight figure budget and plan on spending time in china, I'd recommend against it.


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    Hanley
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    TheCostumeShop.ie: Ronan wrote: »
    Try CMS Peripherials. Fantastic company with a great Irish routes. I buy from them when building stuff and the Group Director is a cool guy.

    Careful though, it's a very very competitive industry and margins are small. I'm sure a lot of people will suggest to buy in from china, but frankly unless you have an eight figure budget and plan on spending time in china, I'd recommend against it.

    I've a lot of time for the CMS guys too.


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    fasttalkerchat
    Registered Users Posts: 5,652 ✭✭✭fasttalkerchat


    The quality on the non-branded ones just isn't there. You would also have to visit the factory yourself if you wanted a big order. Not worth the hassle for such a small margin.
    You could wipe and refurbish old ones from school and office computers and make a few quid selling them on ebay.


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    jmcc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,412 ✭✭✭jmcc


    dclewis wrote: »
    I was mainly looking at the cases to resell. also would think about selling hard drives to. for the cases I am looking for the cheapest I can find. brand doesn't matter
    Big mistake. If you get a rep for selling bad drives then you may not last long in business. It is a very competitive business and you will be competing with online operations with deeper pockets and potentially better specced harddrives at a better price.

    Regards...jmcc


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