I’ve never been more desperate for a Black Friday deal than this year.

[westrock2000]

I feel like a drug addict going through a year of withdrawals. I’ll take Seagate USB drives at this point. Anything!

I made it through the video card crypto mining era fairly well without buying a card. I can make it through the expensive memory phase. But the storage drought is hitting me differently.

 

[MrGuvernment]

Buy something used from one of the reputable drive sellers on Ebay or ServerMonkey?

 

[westrock2000]

Because last fall a 28TB usb drive was $330 direct from Seagate. They have been out of stock ever since and eBay is $1,000. Ya, drives exist. But I’m not paying that kind of money.

 

[peppergomez]

I bought 5 24tb drives about 1 year ago, smart me

 

[pendragon1]

friggin ai...

 

[Kardonxt]

I'm kicking myself for not picking up more of the used 14tb drives when they were ~$100. The sales were so frequent I just assumed they'd always be available.

 

[SticKx911]

Because last fall a 28TB usb drive was $330 direct from Seagate. They have been out of stock ever since and eBay is $1,000. Ya, drives exist. But I’m not paying that kind of money.

I got a 26 from them in January for 280. I guess I got in just in time. Those are gone too.

 

[Gigantopithecus]

Depending on your level of desperation, I've been somewhat consistently finding less-than-terrible prices at Walmart. In the last three months, I've picked up 10TB Toshiba N300 Pros for $238, 12TB Toshiba N300 Pros for $268, 4TB WD My Passports for $109, and 2TB WD Blues for $68. These were all on their website, but were local YMMV prices, and delivered from a local store. Again, not great, but certainly better than what I've been seeing elsewhere for comparable, new drives.

Edit: Seeing 4TB WD Red Plus drives for $139 this morning. As above, not great, but better than the 4TB options Newegg currently has - $160 for a janky Seagate SMR drive, $180 for a WD Ultrastar SAS drive, or $220 for a Synology disk.