Disk Prices on Amazon

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Post by apsec112 » Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 1:56 AM UTC

Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

#2

Post by theamk » Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 2:24 AM UTC

This seems all Amazon links only (with affiliate codes). Given their known counterfeit problems and fake reviews, I would recommend avoiding it for important things like disk drives. Plus, they are not guaranteed to be the cheapest anyway.

If you need to buy a drive, I would recommend local brick and mortar store first, and some sort of proper aggregator (which looks at multiple sites, not just Amazon) second.

Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

#3

Post by joshstrange » Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 6:04 PM UTC

If you are trying to build a NAS or similar then my suggestion is go with shucked WD EasyStore externals, you need to either use molex to sata power to bypass the 2.2v issue or tape the pin but they are WD Whites inside and work very well from my experience. I just keep waiting for the 14TB's to fall a little further so I can replace one of my 5TB parity drives with that so I can grow my array.

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#4

Post by rasz » Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 6:31 PM UTC

theamk wrote: post #2

This seems all Amazon links only (with affiliate codes). Given their known counterfeit problems and fake reviews, I would recommend avoiding it for important things like disk drives. Plus, they are not guaranteed to be the cheapest anyway. If you need to buy a drive, I would recommend local brick and mortar store first, and some sort of proper aggregator (which looks at multiple sites, not just Amazon) second.

While nobody counterfeits mechanical drives, you can still get screwed buying "refurbs"/"tested only, like new" and similar "deals". SMART data can, and is often reset, making 3 year old >30K hour drives pulled from storage racks report mere couple power on counts and less than hour total lifetime run time.

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Post by empyrical » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 1:09 AM UTC

rasz wrote: post #4

theamk wrote: post #2

This seems all Amazon links only (with affiliate codes). Given their known counterfeit problems and fake reviews, I would recommend avoiding it for important things like disk drives. Plus, they are not guaranteed to be the cheapest anyway. If you need to buy a drive, I would recommend local brick and mortar store first, and some sort of proper aggregator (which looks at multiple sites, not just Amazon) second.

While nobody counterfeits mechanical drives, you can still get screwed buying "refurbs"/"tested only, like new" and similar "deals". SMART data can, and is often reset, making 3 year old >30K hour drives pulled from storage racks report mere couple power on counts and less than hour total lifetime run time.

Sometimes you can also run into situations where someone returned an external hard drive, but they swapped the drive inside with a cheap low capacity drive (like a 500gb drive put into an 8tb drive enclosure)

Re: Disk Prices on Amazon

#6

Post by mgr86 » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 1:09 AM UTC

This guy posted in a thread here a few months ago about side hustles. I was tempted to start my own off of this model. It appears it’s not as easy to get started, and with a new baby I’ve been too distracted. But at the same time with a new baby it’s more tempting for the extra cash.

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Post by lvs » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 1:18 AM UTC

I wish the entire web looked like this once again. Ah the good ol' days.

Please add Newegg and other non-Amazon vendors. Newegg has an API and everything. Around 10 - 15 years ago, I used to use a simple site called pricewatch that wasn't too far off from this.

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Post by ajphdiv » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 1:19 AM UTC

mgr86 wrote: post #6

This guy posted in a thread here a few months ago about side hustles. I was tempted to start my own off of this model. It appears it’s not as easy to get started, and with a new baby I’ve been too distracted. But at the same time with a new baby it’s more tempting for the extra cash.

When my son was small I would put him to bed every night with a book and then sit there in the dark and wait for him to fall asleep. I had a big pillow thing that I would sit on next to the crib (it was big enough that it had back support). Well, that hour of sitting there with my laptop was always one of my most productive hours of the day. Sometimes I would just sit there even after he fell asleep and continue to work.

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#9

Post by gjs278 » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 1:20 AM UTC

theamk wrote: post #2

This seems all Amazon links only (with affiliate codes). Given their known counterfeit problems and fake reviews, I would recommend avoiding it for important things like disk drives. Plus, they are not guaranteed to be the cheapest anyway. If you need to buy a drive, I would recommend local brick and mortar store first, and some sort of proper aggregator (which looks at multiple sites, not just Amazon) second.

why would anyone go to a store when you can buy it online? total nonsense. the shipping to the store puts it at just as much risk.

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Post by ajphdiv » Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 1:20 AM UTC

joshstrange wrote: post #3

If you are trying to build a NAS or similar then my suggestion is go with shucked WD EasyStore externals, you need to either use molex to sata power to bypass the 2.2v issue or tape the pin but they are WD Whites inside and work very well from my experience. I just keep waiting for the 14TB's to fall a little further so I can replace one of my 5TB parity drives with that so I can grow my array.

I think I hear /r/DataHoarder/ calling you.