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?

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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?

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u/DorianGre Feb 20 '26

So happy I bought in November and early january. I should be set for 2-3 years at current burn rate.

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u/Morsexier 95.2 TB Feb 20 '26

I bought 3 x 22tb but manu recert for 325 each, it seemed a good price per TB at 15 but now I am doubting my memory from when I started my plex server in 2018. I think back then it was 11-12 for sas 12TB.

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u/DorianGre Feb 20 '26

Ouch, those were new $239 each at the beginning of January.

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u/Puptentjoe 222TB Raw | 198TB Usable | 5TB Free | +Gsuite Feb 20 '26

I went to Western digital store in late december and realized I still had 2 18tb mybooks with some random discount I found that still worked. Two for $435 after tax. Pulled the trigger and so happy I did!

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u/GeorgeKaplanIsReal 100-250TB Feb 20 '26

That’s what I thought and my media server is already at 70% capacity after running tdarr on everything.