I’m sketching the idea of building a NAS in my home, using a USB RAID enclosure (which may eventually turn into a proper NAS enclosure).

I haven’t got the enclosure yet but that’s not that big of a deal, right now I’m thinking whether to buy HDDs for the storage (currently have none) to setup RAID, but I cannot find good deals on HDDs.

I found on reddit that people were buying high capacity drives for as low as $15/TB, e.g. paying $100 for 10/12TB drives, but nowadays it’s just impossible to find drives at a bargain price, thanks to AI datacenters, I guess.

In Europe I’ve heard of datablocks.dev where you can buy white-label or recertified Seagate disks, sometimes you can find refurbished drives in eBay, but I can’t find these bargain deals everyone seemed to have up until last year?

For example, is 134 EUR for a 6TB refurbished Toshiba HDD a good price, considering the price hikes? What price per TB should I be looking for to consider the drives cheap? Where else can I search for these cheap drives?

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    21 hours ago

    I haven’t bought HDDs in a while, but back in the day you could find deals on stuff like WD My Books on sale and just shuck them.

    • xinayder@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      I see some WD Elements external HDDs and they seem to be cheaper than internal HDDs. I don’t know if they’re worth it, though. For example, a 5TB one is about $130.

      • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        12 hours ago

        Some other higher end selfhosters may not approve of them, but I’ll tell you that shucked WD externals are mostly what I run on my computers/servers.