Disk Prices

74•bookofjoe•3h ago

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voxelizer•2h ago

I've noticed refurbished HDD prices creeping up recently. I used to grab 10TB drives from goharddrive for around $80, but they’ve been out of stock for months. Now most other sellers are listing them closer to $150. Has anyone else seen this trend too?

orionblastar•2h ago

Everyone is going to SSDs now for faster access. Having a SATA drive as a secondary drive to store downloads on. https://www.mamedev.org/ The MAME emulator, for example, takes up at least 10TB for all of the ROMs, Software disk images, Compressed Hard Drives, and ect.

xmprt•1h ago

What I've heard is that there's been an undersupply of HDDs in the market for the last few years.

abeindoria•1h ago

March 2024 price for 12 TB refurb : $76.

The one I bought literally this month : $169.

Same WD drive from gHD.

saulpw•17m ago

Inflation? Tariffs?

discordance•2h ago

I don’t need disks, but the design of this site has always been a huge inspiration for me.

I would love to hear if anyone has any similar purely functional and utilitarian site suggestions

nullhole•2h ago

This bit from the FAQ stuck out to me:

  Can you add complex filters and sorting?

  The intent of this site is to be a simple reference rather than a comprehensive search index. If you would like to do more complex analysis, try entering the following into Google Sheets: =IMPORTHTML("https://diskprices.com/", "table")

kilna•1h ago

This makes me miss pricewatch.com

mixologic•1h ago

Sigh. I literally bought an HDD last week. This would have been super handy.

hshdhdhehd•1h ago

Does it exclude fake capacity reporting disks?

kube-system•1h ago

If it didn't, they'd be at the top of the list, right?

edgineer•1h ago

I've seen one or two fake capacity disks show up. I check this site every couple weeks, for a couple years now. The more common listing issues are hybrid drives showing up as SSD, or disk bundles showing as a single larger disk, that type of thing. Issues are rare and barely mar how great a site it is.

kube-system•1h ago

u.2/3 looks really expensive here

bugbuddy•1h ago

Disk drives are under the monopolistic control of Thailand. Don’t piss off Thailand or your disk drive supply will be cut off. Thailand is glorious. Bask in the shadow of Thailand.

metadat•1h ago

https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new,used&capacit...

Pretty expensive for anything semi-recent (as in, past 6 years, 20TB+). what happened?

dreamcompiler•1h ago

It would be nicer if they had a way to exclude SMR drives.

WatchDog•1h ago

I would like to see a chart that compares the disk price costs, versus cloud storage costs over the last 10 years.

It seems like they haven’t really kept pace at all. Obviously cloud providers have many costs other than disks, but I’m a bit disappointed by how much more expensive it is.

saulpw•16m ago

I'd like this chart but for the past 50 years.

hiAndrewQuinn•1h ago

I wish I had known about this site when I was writing [1]. If we use warranties as our expected lifecycle, this lets me drop down from $5 per TB-year of storage down to almost $2 per TB-year. What immense savings compared to the cloud!

[1]: https://andrew-quinn.me/digital-resiliency-2025/#postscript-...

bcoates•1h ago

I don't get it -- AWS deep archive is $12/TB/yr and provides actual durability and connectivity, not just drive-in-a-shoebox. That seems pretty hard to beat by buying raw storage at retail

kwar13•1h ago

I built a similar tool but for protein powder/bar prices.

https://www.proteinmath.app/

dang•59m ago

Diskprices.com makes $5k/month with affiliate marketing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39066480 - Jan 2024 (118 comments)

Disk Prices - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33377826 - Oct 2022 (65 comments)

Disk Prices on Amazon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22156292 - Jan 2020 (222 comments)

kstrauser•53m ago

Wow, this reminded me that tape drives exist.

The best value HD on that list, among ones I'd want to buy for NAS use, is a Seagate 28TB for $480. An LTO-9 tape is 45TB for $90. I found a USB-C (because why not) LTO-9 drive for $6,499.

The crossover price is at 448TB, where the total cost of 16 HD drives is $7,680, but tape drive + 10 tapes is "only" $7,399.

Huh. That's a lot lower than I would've expected. That's a very manageable price for the kind of business that wants someone to take a backup offsite nightly, and is probably a whole awful lot more robust for that kind of regular transportation.

wmf•24m ago

Those tapes are actually 18 TB so you need more to break even. Also 24 TB drives have been on sale for ~$250 occasionally.

bestouff•7m ago

True that, but also those 28TB disks are actually 25TB. So the break even point moves back.

woctordho•21m ago

As long as disk prices decay faster than 1/time, we can store data forever with a finite cost.

ViscountPenguin•8m ago

That would only be true if electricity prices also decay faster than 1/(time)^(1+epsilon).

xyby•1m ago

There also was a site like this with images and a GUI.

Does anybody remember the name?

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