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Good Vendors?

April 17th, 2009, 14:30

Have you guys found any vendors that are especially good to deal with when trying to find donor drives? It seems like there are so many places that don't want to deal with matching anything more specific than model numbers even though we pay more for data recovery drives (in most cases)...

Re: Good Vendors?

April 17th, 2009, 15:49

Fred Farzan @ Access Computer Parts in LA is your man, although he's rather expensive. I buy most of my parts from him because he goes the extra mile to check all my requirements.

I'd rather pay that bit more for a part that I know will be compatible, than take the risk of it not working.

Re: Good Vendors?

April 17th, 2009, 15:59

Agree, Fred is expensive but normally comes up with the goods.

Re: Good Vendors?

April 18th, 2009, 4:02

I also agree. Fred logs a lot on info about the drives. It's not cheap though, I suggest you buy several drives at a time.

Re: Good Vendors?

April 20th, 2009, 1:46

Yeah Fred is the main one I deal with now for the hard-to-find drives, but occasionally he doesn't have what I need so I was just wondering if there was another guy out there like him, just for another option if need be...

Re: Good Vendors?

April 20th, 2009, 4:00

check out www.firmwarefinder.com based in Europe . Even has a search box for experts looking for specific parts

Re: Good Vendors?

April 20th, 2009, 4:50

I use both of them and still it is not enough.
Any other sites ?

Dobre

Re: Good Vendors?

April 20th, 2009, 8:46

I use powersourceonline for finding specific drives. It's a subscription service (about $500 per year), but useful for finding drives.

Re: Good Vendors?

April 20th, 2009, 9:05

I used that one too, but the only usefull info it gave me always came from Fred; so not much use in subscribing then.
Other vendors dont mind to give specific information, so you always have to ask and often get no answer at all, or they cant check it.


Dobre

Re: Good Vendors?

April 20th, 2009, 10:13

What about:

http://www.com-com.co.uk/

and

http://www.ultratec.co.uk/

Re: Good Vendors?

April 20th, 2009, 10:40

Ultratec is the company behind firmwarefinder.
Com-com is unknown to me. Are they any good if you want drives with specific MDL or DCM ?

Dobre

Re: Good Vendors?

April 20th, 2009, 11:48

COM-CoM are brokers I think so they don't have their own stoke. :idea:

Re: Good Vendors?

April 20th, 2009, 12:37

com com are just brokers and will spank you on price, I stopped using them years ago, I can do my own searching with powersource.

some people use brokerbin too.

Re: Good Vendors?

April 23rd, 2009, 3:29

I use brokerbin for quite some time and it's really good.

Re: Good Vendors?

July 24th, 2009, 16:36

try: www.netcomdirect.com

Re: Good Vendors?

July 24th, 2009, 18:02

hi All,
please free feel to contact me by email if any request. thanks.

Re: Good Vendors?

July 24th, 2009, 18:10

CK wrote:I use powersourceonline for finding specific drives. It's a subscription service (about $500 per year), but useful for finding drives.


I have try this powersourceonline, but when i ask price to the shop, and i dont have any price/quote.

so still dont use.

use a lot off ultratek is good for me, but sometimes dont have also :(

If anyone knows any more Shops in Europe please share it.

Re: Good Vendors?

July 29th, 2009, 2:45

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