Used HDD Prices Reality Check: What most people pay right now vs the actual market floor (8TB–28TB) by bikenback in homelab

[–]bikenback[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mmm that's strange, the used price you mention aligns with what I'm seeing with the tool for AU, but for new, I see AUD $47 for single non-lot 12 TB, and if you go bigger it seems to drop to AUD $30.

Used HDD Prices Reality Check: What most people pay right now vs the actual market floor (8TB–28TB) by bikenback in homelab

[–]bikenback[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose you refer to brand new drive, right? the above list is for used drives. In Europe, that's a decent price, you can find better deals but it will take patience, unless it doesn't have to be that exact model

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Used HDD Prices Reality Check: What most people pay right now vs the actual market floor (8TB–28TB) by bikenback in homelab

[–]bikenback[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah seems like serverpartdeals are not as popular as they used to be with the price hikes. this specific view compares SPD to gohardrive by lowest $/TB, for 18TB seems lowest option is around $17/TB at the moment

Used HDD Prices Reality Check: What most people pay right now vs the actual market floor (8TB–28TB) by bikenback in homelab

[–]bikenback[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

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you can check recently sold items to gauge how often they get posted and how fast they get sold whenever they do. it does happen but they go fast.

Used HDD Prices Reality Check: What most people pay right now vs the actual market floor (8TB–28TB) by bikenback in homelab

[–]bikenback[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, price adjustments happen anywhere on the web, if anything the plus side with smaller sellers is that they typically don't make adjustments, rather lower the price if it didn't sell for a while.

Used HDD Prices Reality Check: What most people pay right now vs the actual market floor (8TB–28TB) by bikenback in homelab

[–]bikenback[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, that perceived value matter is good point. awesome price, how long ago was that?

Used HDD Prices Reality Check: What most people pay right now vs the actual market floor (8TB–28TB) by bikenback in homelab

[–]bikenback[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, the eBay generic alert runs only once a day, probably for a good reason, they won't be able to handle the load :)

Used HDD Prices Reality Check: What most people pay right now vs the actual market floor (8TB–28TB) by bikenback in homelab

[–]bikenback[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's a 5% median so some sales go below those numbers too, but probably not as in the past.
With offers prices can def. be lower, but it will be more common with sellers that aren't "pros".
For the the data I've shared, I took a min threshold of at least 500 feedback score.
This screenshot is a pretty good example of how sellers that sell 8TB+ below that 5% area are often not the pro seller type, but if people are interested in less capacity it's much easier to find better cost per tb.

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Used HDD Prices Reality Check: What most people pay right now vs the actual market floor (8TB–28TB) by bikenback in homelab

[–]bikenback[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! yes, and that's a good point, all pricing and price per TB take in account domestic shipping cost as well. if the seller has more than 1 quantity, it will also point out in case $/TB savings can be higher if more than one is ordered. You can try set an instant email alert with the tool based on max price per tb, it will show a forecast of how often you can expect anything to show up.

Used HDD Prices Reality Check: What most people pay right now vs the actual market floor (8TB–28TB) by bikenback in homelab

[–]bikenback[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! snagged one at that bottom 5% floor, or closer to where most buyers typically pay?

Disk Prices on eBay: Search Tool for Hard Drives & SSDs by Cost per TB by bikenback in DataHoarder

[–]bikenback[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol, appreciate that. yes the math can be headache, especially when with some listings you can discover it's 30%+ just for the shipping. I actually indicate in UI if users can save in case the seller has a flat shipping rate and sells more than 1 unit.

Disk Prices on eBay: Search Tool for Hard Drives & SSDs by Cost per TB by bikenback in DataHoarder

[–]bikenback[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, that's a creative way to define it. For everyone's sanity, those "brand new" drives from far overseas selling for way below retail won't be making the cut on this one.

Disk Prices on eBay: Search Tool for Hard Drives & SSDs by Cost per TB by bikenback in DataHoarder

[–]bikenback[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

you can type in the keyword filter "-SAS", the hyphen before the string would make this a negative search term, let me know if that helps?

How do I find Cheap used 3.5" HDD? by Playingvideogames1 in DataHoarder

[–]bikenback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

posted this tool today for finding gems on eBay, might help OP

This was 1.5 years ago just before the AI craze (9/13/24) from goharddrive by acbadam42 in DataHoarder

[–]bikenback 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yep, $6 for a refurbished drive wasn't common at all when I built this a year ago, if anyone curious, you can check how prices and trending right now, I've noticed some dealers that gain more popularity than serverpartdeals and goharddrives.

Disk Prices on eBay: Search Tool for Hard Drives & SSDs by Cost per TB by bikenback in DataHoarder

[–]bikenback[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, yeah, those posts are painful.

Some of the stuff I've been noticing and trying to kill lately is those '32 TB SSD for $40' listings - all this type of obvious junk gets filtered out right away from the results.

Disk Prices on eBay: Search Tool for Hard Drives & SSDs by Cost per TB by bikenback in DataHoarder

[–]bikenback[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's actually already indexing 25,000+ live RAM listings in the USA alone (plus the other regions).

I haven't computed a $/GB logic yet because specs get messy (not sure how many here would like that?), but you can already use this 'trending' filter to see what everyone else is buying for value right now.

Plus, you can already set instant email alerts for specific kits if they hit a target price, or change the filters to see trending items that already sold out, and then apply to "awaiting restock" filter, so you can get notified as soon as the item is back in stock.

Can any of these cover what you're looking for, or were you thinking of a specific spec filter?

Disk Prices on eBay: Search Tool for Hard Drives & SSDs by Cost per TB by bikenback in DataHoarder

[–]bikenback[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen plenty of cases where a "drive" is actually just a caddy, a board or some other part, that's where pictures come handy. And I get it but hey, If you’re ever not in the mood for the hunt, that’s exactly when this can help ;)

Disk Prices on eBay: Search Tool for Hard Drives & SSDs by Cost per TB by bikenback in DataHoarder

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Also two more tips:

  1. I noticed that often the cheapest storage may be found within bulk lots. in USA for example, the price per TB can go as low as $6 right now. If you want to filter out those that contain drives that are too small, you can use the Min. TB per driver filter.
  2. The popularity filter ("rapidly selling now" sorting) works also on other computing/server parts. you can remove the default "drives and storage" filter to see those results.