[HN Gopher] Disk Prices
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       Disk Prices
        
       Author : LeoPanthera
       Score  : 27 points
       Date   : 2022-10-28 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (diskprices.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (diskprices.com)
        
       | metadat wrote:
       | This is giving me serious pricewatch.com vibes. RIP.
       | 
       | For the youngsters out there: In the late 90's and early 00's
       | pricewatch was similar to this, except multi-vendor and supported
       | searches for a wide array of components, e.g. CPU, Mobo, RAM. Was
       | a major driver enabling Newegg to quickly grow so big and
       | dominate - back then, Newegg consistently had the very best
       | prices on the most in-demand chips like AMD Thunderbirds.
       | 
       | p.s. Do some HDDs really only come with a 3 month warranty?
       | 
       | Some of these are sold as "Enterprise" grade drives. Does this
       | site index used disks, or how is this possible?
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       | Edit: Now I see it, thank you @BugsJustFindMe (it's tricky to
       | notice all columns on mobile).
       | 
       | 22TB is still the max? Guess I'll just wait for 30T :)
        
         | BugsJustFindMe wrote:
         | Those ones are marked as "used". It's an interesting idea
         | because drives follow a bathtub curve for failures, so
         | presumably gently used could be significantly better than new.
        
           | rektide wrote:
           | Most are marked "renewed". Many probably are near new. But
           | yeah, I was a bit dis-illusioned to see the EXOS drives I
           | love's prices were too good to be true, were "renewed".
           | 
           | I did pay $379 per 16TB EXOS back in early COVID as drive
           | prices were spiking. That they are $250 not-renewed is still
           | great. But yeah, the $189/per price is renewed only, too good
           | to be true. Still, I'm tempted. 25% off. These drives will
           | probably be fine. Three riskier drives plus a free "spare"?
           | That's a tempting trade off versus a real warranty. And if it
           | does fail very early, I can probably get it sorted, probalby.
        
       | donatj wrote:
       | Neat, but it'd be nice if I could filter by min and max price.
        
       | pwinnski wrote:
       | I hope synack-20 enjoys the affiliate fees in exchange for their
       | work on this site. Well done!
        
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       | readthenotes1 wrote:
       | I was kinda hoping to see ultimate frisbee disc prices
        
       | l1n wrote:
       | I prefer https://shucks.top/ which often indexes very good deals,
       | if you're willing to crack open the casing to extract the juicy
       | drive within.
        
         | _jal wrote:
         | That appears to be limited to WD and Amazon, or am I missing
         | something?
        
           | jffry wrote:
           | I see pricing columns for Amazon, Best Buy, B&H, ebay, and
           | newegg, but yes it does seem limited to WD branded drives.
        
           | capableweb wrote:
           | And US only.
        
       | tanseydavid wrote:
       | Never ceases to produce a sense of amazement in me when I see
       | something that reminds me of the ever on-going dynamic of size-
       | inflation/price-deflation in storage.
       | 
       | I am dating myself but I can still remember what an amazing thing
       | it was when my school got a 10MB Winchester hard drive (external
       | -- about as big as a laser printer).
       | 
       | Of course, at that time the only long-term storage I had any
       | experience with was 5.25" floppies with somewhere between 256K
       | and 512K storage, I cannot recall for sure.
        
       | BugsJustFindMe wrote:
       | The missing piece here is to cross-reference with a
       | failure/reliability reporting service to produce Price per TB
       | Hour.
        
         | jjeaff wrote:
         | It seems to me that in modern drives, there is no longer that
         | much variance in average longevity. At least close enough that
         | when I have tried to compare drives, the cheaper drive almost
         | always ends up being the cheaper drive even when adjusted for
         | longevity.
        
       | epberry wrote:
       | As a maintainer for https://ec2instances.info I absolutely love
       | sites like this. Nice and clean. Just like that site this is
       | statically rendered into a large HTML file and delivered to the
       | client, with data updated every 2 hours via scraping.
       | 
       | And sure enough if you search 'disk prices' or 'harddrive prices'
       | this is the #1 result which I am certain helps with their Amazon
       | Affiliate revenue.
        
       | snoopy_telex wrote:
       | I would love this if it added if the drive is a Shingled Magnetic
       | Recording or Perpendicular Magnetic Recording. That's a key
       | difference between drives.
        
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