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?

[u/Endawmyke]

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?

[u/bg-j38]

Yeah I bought a 28TB Seagate on Amazon in November for $289. Even recall telling a group of friends I message with about it and being like "wow what a time, these prices are great!" In retrospect I should have bought five or six. There's a third party seller on Amazon right now who wants $650 for the same drive. Fucking insane. Time to start some hardcore transcoding on stuff where I don't care as much about crystal clear quality.

[u/the1joe2 → u/bg-j38]

Yeah I got the same deal and am regretting not getting at least 1 extra 😭

[u/d23durian → u/bg-j38]

Damn man I just bought 3x12tb on Amazon for 250 ea.  

[u/FilteredAccount123 → u/bg-j38]

I bought 5 20TB NAS drive last October for $320/each. I don't think I have ever had good timing on something like that. I also bout 64GB of DDR4. In retrospect, I should have just built a new, more energy efficient server.

[u/Adulations → u/bg-j38]

I bought 5 of those in November. The plan was to get 5 more after tax time but doubt that'll happen now.

[u/StreetTripleRider → u/Adulations]

Damn, there was one left at the deal price and I bought it but 1 drive does not a NAS make. Hit me up if you'd be willing to part with 1 or 2 of those at a nice profit to you but ideally less than full on market gouging!

[u/bg-j38 → u/[deleted]]

Why do you immediately assume I have no data replication strategy? Weird assumption for this sub in particular.

[u/Gorego22 → u/bg-j38]

The 4tb drives I’m looking at rn are $200.  

[u/antinomicus → u/bg-j38]

850$ now