Bulk Purchase ?
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@mr.x I'll have an update tomorrow.
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I can do four 8TB internal drives right now. Is the supplier interested in doing this every three months?
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Okay, seeing as they are going to be individual orders, those that want to buy need to email matt@viixim.com tell him you're part of the collective buy Hamish is doing, how many drives you want, and shipping address.
Two (maybe three) payment options:
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Paypal - shipping address must be a verified by Paypal address. They'll send you an invoice to pay for the drives, so make sure you include your paypal address.
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Credit card - not sure of the specifics on this, but give him your shipping address and tel him you want to buy with Credit Card.
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Wire Transfer may be an option, but I believe additional costs are invloved.
Again these are Western Digital HDD WD80EZZX 3.5in 8TB SATA 6GB/s 5400RPM 128MB Cache, they're warrantied until 2020. Mine arrived today, and they appear to be extremely professionally backed - 2 boxes of 12 drives each using orginal drive shipping packing materials.
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@haitch , do we do that now?
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@rds whenever you're ready to order.
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@haitch , For some reason I thought these were SAS drives. Will these SATA drives work on a supermicro SAS2 backplane?
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@rds SATA drive work on a SAS backplane, SAS drives will not work on a SATA backplane.
The 24 I have, and 45 I'm ordering will all be going into a SAS2/SATA3 backplane
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@haitch , ok. thanks, BTW, I emailed Matt about 4 hours ago, no response yet.
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@rds You probably just missed his work window - he might get back to you over the weekend, otherwise Monday
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@haitch I'd be in for 2-3 drives, Thanks for organizing the group buy!
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@haitch , ok. thanks, BTW, I emailed Matt about 4 hours ago, no response yet.
No response yet??
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I haven't gotten a response too. I'll give til tomorrow then I'll try again.
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Probably took one look at his email this morning and headed for the bar!
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@socalguy I emailed yesterday and haven't heard back either. just and FYI :-)
where in socal are ya?
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@Dread I live in San Diego
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@socalguy hey there neighbor. I'm just north of ya.
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I got a response from Matt,
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So sorry for the delay in getting back to you. Yesterday was crazy busy as a few people were out of the office. Unfortunately, there was a huge influx of orders for these specific drives over the weekend.We will have to wait until our next batch arrives to start filling orders. Either late this week or early next. Again, so sorry for the delay and inconvenience.
I will reach out when units are available and make sure you still need. Thank you!!
"I have to wait but not long.
