Western Digital 14tb - 2 for 420

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Picked up a pair, thanks! They were at this price for a couple of days on Amazon back in December. Only need 2 more now to replace out the rest of 10TB in one of my 8 bays.

We'll see if the Paypal or Honey discounts hit, but good price regardless.
 
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Randall Stephens said:
Crazy prices per terabyte? I don’t buy hdds anymore so I don’t know what’s considered good, but are these low prices per TB due to
Competition from ssds starting to grow into formerly only hdd sizes?
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Personally, I find anything that's enterprise 5yr below $15/TB a good deal, and I've bought even at even cheaper. To give you a comparison, the 2yr warranty consumer easystore drives which everyone falls all over each other at best break the $15/TB and its an inferior product imo. The cheapest 5yr warranty drive I believe I've purchased in the last few years was just below $12/TB, and I regularly see used drives now touching $7/TB or less depending on their size.

As far as why the pricing is going lower, I think it's because these sizes are no longer the 'top dog'. I still remember when 16TB and 18TB drives were $500, but now that price point is for 20/22TB drives, so these have come down nicely. I'm actually surprised the easystore drives aren't cheaper considering they're not a great value even when on sale now.

And you can find SSDs in 16TB capacities, but since these are typically enterprise offerings, they'll be sas or nvme u.2 or other formats that don't lend themselves easily to desktop use. I think at some point SSDs will eclipse hard drives because the areal density can be greater (those 16TB ssds are 2.5"), but I don't see the manufacturers doing this anytime soon and will milk every penny out of the hard drive product before they move on. Plus, once drives are hitting 50TB, even old 6-drive NAS systems like my Netgear Ultra 6 will be 1/3PB in such a small package that SSDs will have a hard time matching the cost.
 
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SamirD said:
Personally, I find anything that's enterprise 5yr below $15/TB a good deal, and I've bought even at even cheaper. To give you a comparison, the 2yr warranty consumer easystore drives which everyone falls all over each other at best break the $15/TB and its an inferior product imo. The cheapest 5yr warranty drive I believe I've purchased in the last few years was just below $12/TB, and I regularly see used drives now touching $7/TB or less depending on their size.

As far as why the pricing is going lower, I think it's because these sizes are no longer the 'top dog'. I still remember when 16TB and 18TB drives were $500, but now that price point is for 20/22TB drives, so these have come down nicely. I'm actually surprised the easystore drives aren't cheaper considering they're not a great value even when on sale now.

And you can find SSDs in 16TB capacities, but since these are typically enterprise offerings, they'll be sas or nvme u.2 or other formats that don't lend themselves easily to desktop use. I think at some point SSDs will eclipse hard drives because the areal density can be greater (those 16TB ssds are 2.5"), but I don't see the manufacturers doing this anytime soon and will milk every penny out of the hard drive product before they move on. Plus, once drives are hitting 50TB, even old 6-drive NAS systems like my Netgear Ultra 6 will be 1/3PB in such a small package that SSDs will have a hard time matching the cost.
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Thanks for writing out a great explanation. :)
 
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Since I run 8 drives for my RAID array, I found a couple places that were selling 12TB refurbs (Water Panther's turned out to be Exos X16 drives) for 105 each. $8.75 per TB is, I think, a helluva deal. Too bad they're up to over 125 per drive now.
 
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arestavo said:
Since I run 8 drives for my RAID array, I found a couple places that were selling 12TB refurbs (Water Panther's turned out to be Exos X16 drives) for 105 each. $8.75 per TB is, I think, a helluva deal. Too bad they're up to over 125 per drive now.
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That's a good price per TB for a used drive, even better for something with any type of support/warranty. The enterprise class drives like the Exos and HGST are very long lasting if not physically abused.
 
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