[HN Gopher] Show HN: TerabyteDeals - Compare storage prices by $/TB
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Show HN: TerabyteDeals - Compare storage prices by $/TB
I built a simple tool to compare hard drive and SSD prices by
price-per-terabyte. I kept having to calculate $/TB manually when
shopping for NAS drives, so I made this to save myself the trouble.
It pulls prices from Amazon (US, CA, AU, and EU stores), calculates
$/TB, and lets you filter by drive type, interface, form factor,
and capacity. Nothing fancy -- just a sortable table updated
daily. Any feedback is more than welcome, I hope someone will find
it useful!
Author : vektor888
Score : 21 points
Date : 2026-01-21 21:13 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (terabytedeals.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (terabytedeals.com)
| superkuh wrote:
| If only you had known about diskprices.com you could've saved
| yourself the trouble.
| vektor888 wrote:
| Oh well... nevertheless, it was a fun project to work on, and
| it still is!
|
| I am planning to add some aggregated statistics (e.g. price
| trends by brand/category)
| superkuh wrote:
| I guess you didn't read the amazon tos then. Price trends and
| history is not allowed.
| vektor888 wrote:
| Not for this specific use case.
|
| Are platforms like Keepa violating Amazon's ToS then?
| superkuh wrote:
| Ah, from the wording ("pull") I assumed you were using
| the API. You use your own user-agent to access the
| site(s) and collect prices then? Do you have any trouble
| getting blocked doing that? Is it some headless chrome
| controlled programatically?
| dewey wrote:
| ToS are not enforceable if you don't use an official
| product feed from Amazon in this case. As shown by
| thousands of companies providing exactly this service for
| competitor analysis.
| baal80spam wrote:
| Or just quickly pivot to RAM prices!
| goda90 wrote:
| The prices don't seem accurate on the ones I checked. Maybe they
| were a few months ago, but there's been a lot of stock shortages,
| especially for larger HDDs, and it's been driving up prices.
| vektor888 wrote:
| Thanks for the input!
|
| This should be the price as shown in the product listings for
| the category. Perhaps, depending on product availability, you
| are shown different prices on the product page.
|
| I will take a better look into this, but I can confirm that
| this data is very recent (about 4-5 hours ago), definitely not
| months old
| BrandoElFollito wrote:
| At least for France prices are wildly innacurate. The actual ones
| are 150 to 200% the price on the table.
|
| I checked 6 to 8 TB HDDs.
| vektor888 wrote:
| Thanks for the feedback!
|
| These prices are 5-6 hours old. While working on this site, I
| noticed that Amazon pricing can be very dynamic.
|
| Moreover, it could be that Amazon is returning the retail
| price, but because of current availability, once you land on
| the product page, you are shown prices from a different seller
| thehias wrote:
| Every price i checked on Amazon.de was wrong on your website,
| this is totally useless! Often the real price is like 300% higher
| vektor888 wrote:
| Thanks for the input!
|
| As I mentioned to other users, Amazon's pricing seems to be
| quite dynamic. This data is just 4-5 hours old, but it already
| seems quite stale.
|
| Note taken that it should be updated more frequently!
| alexfoo wrote:
| Feedback:
|
| Interesting. Glad there was a drop down to pick a bunch of
| different sources. I was expecting it to be US central but was
| happy when I saw I could search for amazon.co.uk
|
| An ability to search for NAS drives, even if it's just a
| substring search within the product name, would be great.
|
| Also a search on drive speed. I'm not interested in 5400rpm
| drives, only 7200rpm+.
|
| (I'm looking for a bunch of 7200rpm drives that are NAS rated, so
| I'm not interested in generic consumer grade 5400rpm drives right
| now.)
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