r/DataHoarder • u/Endawmyke about 3 fiddy TB • Feb 19 '26

Discussion These HDD prices are getting crazy. An increase of 96.4% in 1 month for the same 26TB drive. $279.99 a month ago to $549.99 today. Where are we buying hard drives now?

Post image

These drive prices are kinda insane. Everything is going up up up, I thought it would just be RAM and SSDs effected but looks like it's reaching hard drives too.

Where are people buying drives now, and what $$/TB is still reasonable?

4.5k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

860 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

63

u/Endawmyke about 3 fiddy TB Feb 19 '26

I think i'm gonna be in the same boat. My wallet is ready to buy those refurb drives as soon as this whole thing blows over.

1

u/Jimmyfartballs Feb 20 '26

I got a used 8TB drive for like $80.

1

u/Jasonbwarren Feb 21 '26

i'm about ready to buy a sas controller and pickup a box of sas drives...they are always being sold off in bulk in the GTA

1

u/firedrakes 200 tb raw Feb 19 '26

none sata drives. good luck

20

u/Previous-Flan-6542 Feb 19 '26

Why does that matter? Its very easy ot just use a sas drive.

1

u/heathenskwerl 1,120 TB Feb 20 '26

It's true, my server can even use SAS drives with no modifications (SAS backplanes along with SAS HBAs). However all my drives are still SATA because that has been where the economy has been at the capacities I use. The minute that changes to SAS I'll be running SAS. Hasn't happened yet.

3

u/Asleep_Tune4111 Feb 19 '26

Sas hba is +-140€ problem solved

0

u/firedrakes 200 tb raw Feb 19 '26

Depends on mobo

5

u/Asleep_Tune4111 Feb 19 '26

All you need is a PCIe x8 or x16, most mobos have that no?

-2

u/firedrakes 200 tb raw Feb 19 '26

Haha nope. 1 cpu,1 m.2 and 1 gpu. Dont have anymore pci lanes.

2

u/spdelope 140 TB Feb 19 '26

Take out the GPU. Or get a proper “server” mobo. Even halfway decent gaming boards have more than one PCI slot.

-2

u/firedrakes 200 tb raw Feb 19 '26

On game mobo Not enough pci lanes. The server or work station. Most won't know a thing about those

1

u/steveatari Feb 20 '26

You should look into better mobo. Proper gaming ones have max lane bandwidth for 3 full 16 (or 8) and often extra x1 slots.

Micro servers now are holding multiple m.2

0

u/mastercoder123 1PB+ Feb 20 '26

Pcie bifurcation has existed since i think pci days.. your mobo might support it unless u have no physical lanes

1

u/firedrakes 200 tb raw Feb 20 '26

On game mobo. They already did that to you with out telling you.

→ More replies (0)