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Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by K0balt »

vektor888 wrote: post #37
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!

Was about to say, but it looks like you’re working on it!

Cool idea, it’s already been helpful to me even with the often inaccurate scraping.

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by vektor888 »

bananapub wrote: post #40
vektor888 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Even terabytedeals.com does, you have a drawer in the top-right corner!

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by vektor888 »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #39
vektor888 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Unfortunately not, I can see a bunch of other EU countries and Japan, but not India

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by neurodyne »

vektor888 wrote: post #37
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!

Great! Looking forward to giving it another go once the data has refreshed.

Congrats on the launch!

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by vektor888 »

IgorPartola wrote: post #34

A graph could be fun. Also sources other than Amazon, especially https://serverpartdeals.com/ .

I was thinking about including additional stores at some point, but mainly from the EU.

Once Amazon's pricing issues stabilize, I will try including some more sources!

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

vektor888 wrote: post #43
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Unfortunately not, I can see a bunch of other EU countries and Japan, but not India

Hm is there any definite reason for this? Perhaps I can try a hand at it but can you please tell me what's the thing which stops you maybe?

No worries about it tho I am just curious and good luck for the project!

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

vektor888 wrote: post #43
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Unfortunately not, I can see a bunch of other EU countries and Japan, but not India

Edit: looks like diskprices does support India, I may have missed the spot as I wasn't wearing glasses!

https://diskprices.com/?locale=in

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by alessandroberna »

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.

The thing that makes the most difference is a drive being CMR vs an SMR one. CMR ones are recommended if you are ever going to write large-ish amounts of data in one go or if you ever plan to make a raid 5/ raid 6 arrays.

SMR drives are now what you find on most consumer drives between with capacities 1Besides the recording technology, the color of the label and the product line name are mostly marketing and won't make too much of a difference for simple usage.

Re: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB

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Post by jollymonATX »

SuperKlaus wrote: post #28

I filtered for ssd only, minimum 2tb, top 5 prices are wrong or the product is not available on Amazon US

These sites all suffer from the same defect, amazon pa-api pricing is NOT consistent in any region with the carted values an end user will be shown. This is a well known thing if you have worked with that api before and you are essentially just dropping the authors 24 hr amz cookie for them to earn off all other sales. Not to say thats bad, but the value add from a price comparison site like this is minimal to the end user as you will very likely not get that shown price.
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