Anyone here has played Russian roulette with customs on eBay shipping especially with regards to HDDs?
I have a homelab setup, it runs a lot of things but mainly Jellyfin and my *ahem* Linux ISOs *ahem* no longer seem to fit into the drives I have.
I see a lot of classifieds here about HDDs and the reseller thread by
@aasimenator . However, being extremely new, I do not have access to comment on those pages I guess.
Anyways, I ask this because I wonder how people managed to get these drives. I live in a tier 1 city and anything above 4 TB is solely surveillance drives and the prices are a but mind numbing.
I have played Russian roulette with customs but mostly on Chinese imports that are low cost and most probably too small to even be bothering the customs officials. However I highly doubt that would be the case with HDDs.
I could ask someone to hand carry from the US, but that brings with it, it's own set of problems such as warranty and RMA, especially refurbished drives.