Disk Prices
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·October 15, 2025dang
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voxelizer
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?
xmprt
What I've heard is that there's been an undersupply of HDDs in the market for the last few years.
abeindoria
March 2024 price for 12 TB refurb : $76.
The one I bought literally this month : $169.
Same WD drive from gHD.
orionblastar
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.
kwar13
I built a similar tool but for protein powder/bar prices.
hiAndrewQuinn
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
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
discordance
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
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")dreamcompiler
It would be nicer if they had a way to exclude SMR drives.
metadat
https://diskprices.com/?locale=us&condition=new,used&capacit...
Pretty expensive for anything semi-recent (as in, past 6 years, 20TB+). what happened?
kilna
This makes me miss pricewatch.com
WatchDog
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.
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bugbuddy
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.
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.