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TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by vektor888 »

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!

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Post by vektor888 »

goda90 wrote: post #3

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.

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

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Post by superkuh »

vektor888 wrote: post #5
superkuh wrote: post #2

If only you had known about diskprices.com you could've saved yourself the trouble.

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)

I guess you didn't read the amazon tos then. Price trends and history is not allowed.

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Post by baal80spam »

vektor888 wrote: post #5
superkuh wrote: post #2

If only you had known about diskprices.com you could've saved yourself the trouble.

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)

Or just quickly pivot to RAM prices!

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Post by vektor888 »

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #7

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.

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

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