Hi,

Dell will happy sell me FIPS-140 validated drives for my servers at 10x the retail price of non-validated enterprise class drives. I"d rather buy the validated drives direct.

over the years i have managed to get my reseller (CDW-G) to get FIPS validated drives from Seagate and/or WD. It has always been a PITA, and lately he's slower to respond.

Anyone have a reliable source to recommend?

My needs are pretty modest - right now I need maybe 15 drives. 10 of them are just whatever cheapo boot drive someone has, 2.5" SAS or SATA. For the others, need moderate performance SSD, 1dwpd fine, but enterprise class. Again, SAS/SATA.

if anyone has another good subreddit to recommend for this, I've love to hear that too. Thanks.