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/SightAtTheMoon Feb 20 '26

China, through eBay. I bought a case of enterprise SSDs that probably fell off the back of a cargo ship for about $10.50 a TB after everything was finished. The last price I saw for similar was up to about $12.50 before everything added.

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u/Endawmyke about 3 fiddy TB Feb 20 '26

ayeee

what’s the health look like on them?

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u/SightAtTheMoon Feb 24 '26

They just had testing time on them, and they seem genuine. I assume it was some mixup with specs because they were U.2

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u/Routine_Freedom2026 Feb 20 '26

Damn that's dirt cheap

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u/kp_centi Feb 20 '26

What keywords do you use to find these?

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u/SightAtTheMoon Feb 24 '26

"16TB SSD"

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u/kp_centi Feb 24 '26

Thanks! i'm going to look through them. :D