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)...

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.

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

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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.

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...

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

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

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

Dobre

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Datarecovery in Belgium, Holland, France and Germany
Datarecoverytools http://www.drtools.eu

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

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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

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Datarecovery in Belgium, Holland, France and Germany
Datarecoverytools http://www.drtools.eu

What about:

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

and

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

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

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Datarecovery in Belgium, Holland, France and Germany
Datarecoverytools http://www.drtools.eu

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

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All went well until I plugged the drive in.

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.

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

try: www.netcomdirect.com

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

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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.

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