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Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by neurodyne »

Not to be yet another critical voice, but where are your prices actually coming from? I'm in the US, and I just chose the top three "Price/TB" items and none of the prices on your site agree with the actual item pages on Amazon.

  - Toshiba X300 16TB Performance & Gaming 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive
  - https://terabytedeals.com/us: $229.95
  - https://amazon.com/dp/B0CYQXNCVZ: $353.30 new

  - Western Digital 18TB WD Red Pro NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD
  - https://terabytedeals.com/us: $259.99
  - https://amazon.com/dp/B08K3TFM92: $361.53 used, $549.59 new

  - Western Digital 22TB WD Purple Pro Surveillance Internal Hard Drive HDD
  - https://terabytedeals.com/us: $329.69
  - https://amazon.com/dp/B0B5VYRJ6Q: $465.00 new
You can claim Amazon price volatility, but I don't suspect that to be what's going on here. CamelCamelCamel price history graphs show that these items have never been anywhere near the terabytedeals.com prices looking back the last three months, including Amazon, 3rd Party New, or 3rd Party Used prices.

  - https://3cmls.co/US/B0CYQXNCVZ
  - https://3cmls.co/US/B08K3TFM92
  - https://3cmls.co/US/B0B5VYRJ6Q
In fact, my spidey senses are tingling. The only strings that match the terabytedeals.com prices are completely different items.

These other items and prices only appear if you choose the "See All Buying Options" button or the "Other sellers on Amazon" menu. Then wait for the "Didn't find what you were looking for? Consider these alternative items" section to load.

  - For B0CYQXNCVZ (16TB), Amazon offers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NTDWMSQ (6TB) which *IS* listed as $229.95.
  - For B08K3TFM92 (18TB), Amazon offers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CMJPRLJV (18TB) which *IS* listed as $259.99.
  - For B0B5VYRJ6Q (22TB), Amazon offers https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0966V6YJB (12TB) which *IS* listed as $329.69.
That this pattern holds true for three items, seems like maybe the wrong prices are being scraped somehow?

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

#35

Post by vektor888 »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #23

Anything like this for the Indian market as well? I tried diskprices,terabytedeals & pricepergig (currently the only 3 websites mentioned right now in comments/main post show hn itself) and none of them support Indian services. If someone does support Indian markets, I have a minor suggestion to include both Amazon and flipkart. I would honestly really appreciate a quick website I can point out to in my local communi…

I tried to have a look, but from my associates central, I cannot enable affiliations on the Indian store, sorry!

Moreover, I am not familiar with the Flipkart platform myself

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

#36

Post by IgorPartola »

TacoCommander wrote: post #25

I haven't needed to buy a spinning hard drive in about 5 years. I have no idea how to choose one any more. There are so many variations. Red, Purple, Blue, Gaming, Enterprise, Business. I just want to store some files.

But two of any brands and use ZFS. That’s the easiest (though you can check Backblaze if you want to spend a few hours interpreting data that ultimately won’t matter much).

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

#37

Post by vektor888 »

neurodyne wrote: post #32

Not to be yet another critical voice, but where are your prices actually coming from? I'm in the US, and I just chose the top three "Price/TB" items and none of the prices on your site agree with the actual item pages on Amazon. - Toshiba X300 16TB Performance & Gaming 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive - https://terabytedeals.com/us: $229.95 - https://amazon.com/dp/B0CYQXNCVZ: $353.30 new - Western Digital 18TB WD Red Pro…

You are onto something, I am using a mix of scraping and APIs, and the scraped products don't seem to be accurate due to a faulty CSS selector.

I am running the process once again to get some - hopefully - better data!

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

#39

Post by Imustaskforhelp »

vektor888 wrote: post #35
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #23

Anything like this for the Indian market as well? I tried diskprices,terabytedeals & pricepergig (currently the only 3 websites mentioned right now in comments/main post show hn itself) and none of them support Indian services. If someone does support Indian markets, I have a minor suggestion to include both Amazon and flipkart. I would honestly really appreciate a quick website I can point out to in my local communi…

I tried to have a look, but from my associates central, I cannot enable affiliations on the Indian store, sorry! Moreover, I am not familiar with the Flipkart platform myself

Yup don't worry about flipkart if that's the case, but can you please add atleast the amazon.in's suggestion. Thanks for trying with flipkart as well tho! But are you able to connect it with amazon.in?

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

#40

Post by bananapub »

vektor888 wrote: post #22
ponytech wrote: post #20

How is it different from https://diskprices.com/ ?

Many users are pointing out that the concept is very similar. The product listings are perhaps different?

yes, OPs one has strictly less listings (diskprices.com does multiple countries).
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