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What’s going on with HDD drive prices on Newegg?! (Canadian Dollar Prices) (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm planning to add a few more 18TB IronWolf Pro drives to my current array and I noticed a dramatically odd set of pricing for this year‘s Black Friday sales since I currently have 18 TB drives I’m not looking to spend on 20 TB drives but looking at the other priced hard discs I am very astonished to see that certain drives are priced incorrectly when somebody were priced a lot lower a few months ago! (Example: 10TB Ironwolf Pro’s used to go for $310 Canadian Dollar a few months ago now is over $400!)

I noticed that American sites have these for far cheaper, but the import fees and shipping just seems to be too expensive for me. I’m planning to probably wait until server Park deals runs a black Friday sale (from some of the communities opinions it seems like they don’t often do a massive one…) someone’s starting out with their media server and have a few cold storage discs. I kind of find it hard to believe that these are the best prices these storefront can give us…

Do any canadian data hoarders have any better ideas on where I should purchase from? I just can’t believe that these discs are so expensive!

(Re-posted due to some errors & not being able to add an image to my post)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What part of supply and demand don't you get? The U.S. has nearly 10X the population of Canada so 10X the number of potential buyers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

in Southwestern USA, I can pick up that 20TB Seagate EXOS for about $279

Edit: $269! WOOOO

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Have you considered EXOS instead of iron wolf?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

What part of supply and demand don't you get? The U.S. has nearly 10X the population of Canada so 10X the number of potential buyers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm in Canada as well. Best prices I've found were Newegg and sometimes Amazon although I've only bought 10 & 12tb Ironwolf Pro's.

Normally around the $280 mark when they had deals. Lately I've went to WD PRO's because of the lower prices. Positive thing is they seem to run cooler.

I'm at 170tb's of raw storage and 95% full I just don't have money to upgrade anymore.

Neweggs prices have always seemed to be weird from my experience. Sometimes they make no sense at all. You'll have the same product in two different places on the website both sold by Newegg at different price points as well as the multiple sellers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I'm in Canada as well. Best prices I've found were Newegg and sometimes Amazon although I've only bought 10 & 12tb Ironwolf Pro's.

Normally around the $280 mark when they had deals. Lately I've went to WD PRO's because of the lower prices. Positive thing is they seem to run cooler.

I'm at 170tb's of raw storage and 95% full I just don't have money to upgrade anymore.

Neweggs prices have always seemed to be weird from my experience. Sometimes they make no sense at all. You'll have the same product in two different places on the website both sold by Newegg at different price points as well as the multiple sellers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Newegg is consistently absurd, I gave up on them for drives ages ago.

I'd just suggest looking past Seagate, WD's 'buy 2' bundle deals are consistently among the lowest I can find on new drives up here. 2x 18TB Red Pro are on for $375 CAD/drive right now (20.83/TB).

But they run different bundles all year, I picked up 4x 20TB this year with those deals. Those were $410 (20.5/TB) in June or July, then $420/drive a couple weeks ago ($21/TB).

Ships from the US, but it's via UPS Worldwide Saver that avoids brokerage fees. Paid nothing extra both times.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

in Southwestern USA, I can pick up that 20TB Seagate EXOS for about $279

Edit: $269! WOOOO

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Not sure where you’re looking, seeing a lot better prices than what you have.

Try

https://diskprices.com/?locale=ca&condition=new&disk_types=external_hdd,external_hdd25,internal_hdd,internal_hdd25,internal_sshd,internal_sas

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Not sure where you’re looking, seeing a lot better prices than what you have.

Try

https://diskprices.com/?locale=ca&condition=new&disk_types=external_hdd,external_hdd25,internal_hdd,internal_hdd25,internal_sshd,internal_sas

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve always found the 10-15 tb external Hdd less expensive than internal ones.

I’ve bought so many externals and just take them out the enclosure before being used and install into my computer , I never understood why it’s more expensive to get a single internal hdd the exact same hard drive wrapped in plastic enclosure and using a usb pass board plus a wall charger is less expensive..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Last time I shucked some drives people recommended all over, I had 4/5 drive be SMR and never got the performance I needed. Wasted so much money on that project...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I’ve always found the 10-15 tb external Hdd less expensive than internal ones.

I’ve bought so many externals and just take them out the enclosure before being used and install into my computer , I never understood why it’s more expensive to get a single internal hdd the exact same hard drive wrapped in plastic enclosure and using a usb pass board plus a wall charger is less expensive..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Newegg is consistently absurd, I gave up on them for drives ages ago.

I'd just suggest looking past Seagate, WD's 'buy 2' bundle deals are consistently among the lowest I can find on new drives up here. 2x 18TB Red Pro are on for $375 CAD/drive right now (20.83/TB).

But they run different bundles all year, I picked up 4x 20TB this year with those deals. Those were $410 (20.5/TB) in June or July, then $420/drive a couple weeks ago ($21/TB).

Ships from the US, but it's via UPS Worldwide Saver that avoids brokerage fees. Paid nothing extra both times.