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Great job! Could someone explain what's SAS and what's the difference between SAS and HDD? I know I can google it but I value people experience.
Are you like serious? How "experience" can be applicable storage interface type?
How is it different from https://diskprices.com/ ?
Neither allow filtering for CMR (vs SMR) or TLC (vs QLC). Neither have a column for Endurance (TBW), or power consumption (load watt, idle watt, RPM...). Both list disks not actually available for purchase (fake prices). Very limited usefulness.
Amazon doesn't expose this data
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Are you like serious? How "experience" can be applicable storage interface type?
Could not the content of your words been better spent answering the question.
This is like asking what's the difference between JavaScript and React. ish (some hand waving on the analogy)
The question you've asked can't really be answered? Idk what you're asking exactly.
SAS is comparable to SATA. Both can be used for HDDs. For individuals it doesn't really matter. For building huge-ass disk arrays, you might want to use SAS.
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Could not the content of your words been better spent answering the question.
> Could someone explain what's SAS and what's the difference between SAS and HDD? This is like asking what's the difference between JavaScript and React. ish (some hand waving on the analogy) The question you've asked can't really be answered? Idk what you're asking exactly. SAS is comparable to SATA. Both can be used for HDDs. For individuals it doesn't really matter. For building huge-ass disk arrays, you might wan…
How is it different from https://diskprices.com/ ?
It's different in that diskprices doesn't make money for the OP, while it only costed the OP 15$ in claude credits to slopvibe a competitor.
If users won't find anything useful, I will simply put it offline and run it on demand whenever I need a new drive.
As many users pointed out, neither DiskPrices' idea nor mine is unique; there are many alternatives with different product listings.
It is only a benefit for the users if they have more choice
ie, if I have a budget of 100$, I would rather get the best out of it. (ie. Highest GB/TB)
Man even spinning rust has inflated. In mid 2024 I got a 8TB WD Blue for $115 and now the cheapest 8TB I see on PcPartPicker is $160... isn't that like 30% increase in a year or so? :/ We didn't know how good we had it.
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.
Then get the cheapest. The differences don't matter to you.
Man even spinning rust has inflated. In mid 2024 I got a 8TB WD Blue for $115 and now the cheapest 8TB I see on PcPartPicker is $160... isn't that like 30% increase in a year or so? :/ We didn't know how good we had it.
I treat the average disk price for new disks as $20/TB, so while we had a couple of years of good deals, it's now back to normal.
You might be interested in the list of similar services to this, from my own similar service (see the list at the bottom) https://listofdisks.pages.dev/ Note, this is painfully out of date, I no longer maintain it. How did you get the data? I went the scraping route after having difficulty qualifying for access to Amazons API as I didn't generate enough purchases via the affiliate links. Would be interested in hearin…
The rate limit is a bit low, so I mixed that with scraping too.