I kept having to calculate $/TB manually when shopping for NAS drives, so I made this to save myself the trouble.
It pulls prices from Amazon (US, CA, AU, and EU stores), calculates $/TB, and lets you filter by drive type, interface, form factor, and capacity.
Nothing fancy — just a sortable table updated daily.
Any feedback is more than welcome, I hope someone will find it useful!
This should be the price as shown in the product listings for the category. Perhaps, depending on product availability, you are shown different prices on the product page.
I will take a better look into this, but I can confirm that this data is very recent (about 4-5 hours ago), definitely not months old
I checked 6 to 8 TB HDDs.
These prices are 5-6 hours old. While working on this site, I noticed that Amazon pricing can be very dynamic.
Moreover, it could be that Amazon is returning the retail price, but because of current availability, once you land on the product page, you are shown prices from a different seller
As I mentioned to other users, Amazon's pricing seems to be quite dynamic. This data is just 4-5 hours old, but it already seems quite stale.
Note taken that it should be updated more frequently!
Interesting. Glad there was a drop down to pick a bunch of different sources. I was expecting it to be US central but was happy when I saw I could search for amazon.co.uk
An ability to search for NAS drives, even if it's just a substring search within the product name, would be great.
Also a search on drive speed. I'm not interested in 5400rpm drives, only 7200rpm+.
(I'm looking for a bunch of 7200rpm drives that are NAS rated, so I'm not interested in generic consumer grade 5400rpm drives right now.)
Adding a filter on drive speed is definitely feasible. I will add it as soon as possible
Hopefully, I will find some ways to differentiate. Something I don't see there is a filter by brand or a text search across all fields. I was planning to add these in a next iteration
I'm a little surprised someone said disk prices was the best option. Changing the sort by column seems like bare minimum UI feature in 202X.
The product listings are perhaps different?
If someone does support Indian markets, I have a minor suggestion to include both Amazon and flipkart.
I would honestly really appreciate a quick website I can point out to in my local community so vektor if possible, can you please add it?
What are your thoughts on it?
Moreover, I am not familiar with the Flipkart platform myself
No worries about it tho I am just curious and good luck for the project!
I just want to store some files.
SMR drives are now what you find on most consumer drives between with capacities 1<x<8 tb (higher capacities too, but depends on the manufacturer) , they have a CMR area of the platter as a sort of write cache (like slc cache in ssds), while the rest of the platter will be really slow to write to. The write head is wider than the read head, so to overwrite something the drive has to first read and copy somewhere else the data on the track(s) that would be overwritten. This makes whole drive writes really slow and can kill raid 5/6 since resilvers would take very long, possibly even a month, instead of a few days.
Besides the recording technology, the color of the label and the product line name are mostly marketing and won't make too much of a difference for simple usage.
- Toshiba X300 16TB Performance & Gaming 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive
- https://terabytedeals.com/us: $229.95
- https://amazon.com/dp/B0CYQXNCVZ: $353.30 new
- Western Digital 18TB WD Red Pro NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD
- https://terabytedeals.com/us: $259.99
- https://amazon.com/dp/B08K3TFM92: $361.53 used, $549.59 new
- Western Digital 22TB WD Purple Pro Surveillance Internal Hard Drive HDD
- https://terabytedeals.com/us: $329.69
- https://amazon.com/dp/B0B5VYRJ6Q: $465.00 new
- https://3cmls.co/US/B0CYQXNCVZ
- https://3cmls.co/US/B08K3TFM92
- https://3cmls.co/US/B0B5VYRJ6Q
These other items and prices only appear if you choose the "See All Buying Options" button or the "Other sellers on Amazon" menu. Then wait for the "Didn't find what you were looking for? Consider these alternative items" section to load.
- For B0CYQXNCVZ (16TB), Amazon offers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NTDWMSQ (6TB) which *IS* listed as $229.95.
- For B08K3TFM92 (18TB), Amazon offers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMJPRLJV (18TB) which *IS* listed as $259.99.
- For B0B5VYRJ6Q (22TB), Amazon offers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0966V6YJB (12TB) which *IS* listed as $329.69.
I am running the process once again to get some - hopefully - better data!
Cool idea, it’s already been helpful to me even with the often inaccurate scraping.
Congrats on the launch!
Once Amazon's pricing issues stabilize, I will try including some more sources!
superkuh•2h ago
vektor888•2h ago
I am planning to add some aggregated statistics (e.g. price trends by brand/category)
superkuh•2h ago
vektor888•1h ago
Are platforms like Keepa violating Amazon's ToS then?
superkuh•1h ago
vektor888•1h ago
I also played a bit with scraping, and you can do that quite easily, but if you want to do it at some scale, you need lots of proxies, and quite soon it gets slow and overkill
dewey•1h ago
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ZeWaka•1h ago