[HN Gopher] Disk Prices ___________________________________________________________________ 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? | | 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! | [deleted] | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-28 23:00 UTC)