Hard drive and SSD companies have the genius of maintining prices by permanently increasing capacities.
It annoys me as large SSDs often don't correspond to my needs.
Larger drives mean more time to erase and this boring in some situations.

In my country 64 GB SSD to 128 GB SSD from reliable brands and having a 5 years warranty have already become difficult to find (Intel 535 and Sandisk X110 for instance), excepted in professional series like Intel DC 3500 / 3510 / a.s.o., which cost about twice more.

In consumer series, I observe that the few SSD that I can find in small capacities often cost more now that they did a few months ago. This is absurd.

On eBay, lots of used SSD often cost almost as much as new ones , but without the warranty, after I added the transportation costs and import taxes.

Is there a reliable wholeseller selling small packs (4 to 10 units) of new small capacities SSDs or lots of used SSD (3 to 15 units) from renowned models (e.g. Intel 520) at attractive prices ?

Do not recommend buying used SSD drives for production work. It is like buying used tires.

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Hard Disk Drive, SSD, USB Drive and RAID Data Recovery Specialist in Massachusetts

Used to be true, but if you have a decent backup regime, it shouldn't matter what drive. Even if you buy perfect drives, other factors can kill your data such as lightning, cat peeing on your PC and theft etc. IMHO, conventional hard disks are getting crappier, and SSDs are getting better thus closing the perceived gap in reliability

I agree with HaQue.
SSD need a decent backup regime as they may fail all of a sudden and data may be very hard or even impossible to recover if this occurs.

That said, SSD also offer a lot of benefits, for instance less mechanical risk if you move a lot with your laptop or external drive.
I believe the SSD that are warranted 5 or 10 years are pretty reliable.

Although a long warranty is also a marketing argument, the brands would not take the risk of a 5-years or 10-years warranty if they were not pretty sure that such model is quite reliable. The price of NAND drops year over year, but there are also more or less incompressible production costs for the circuit board, controller, a.s.o.
If the SSD manufacturers had to maintain an excessive stock of replacement SSD, it would also cost to them.
If you look at the price of today's SSD with the smallest capacities (~32 GB), you can observe they cost more or less the same as those in 64 GB capacities. Of course, are the margins of distributors and merchants, but this gives some rough idea about what the incompressible production costs could be.

I use SSD for many other things than data recovery purposes, but when doing data recovery, I mostly use SSD to duplicate already extracted files so that I can post-process them on another workstation, before the completion of the analysis/carving/extraction task. Useful, in emergency cases, when seeking for some overwritten Word document for instance.

But the question was : Where to buy small capacity SSD in small lots (~ 3 to 15)?

The question could also be : Are there some distribution channels for professionnals to buy sold off small capacity SSDs?

I assume there are still some merchants having "sleeping" sealed SSD on their shelves that they hardly can sell to their customers because the capacities have become "too small" in comparison with what is marketed today.

Even manufacturers may have remaining stock of some "old fashioned" models.
Or I'm wrong ?