Looks like this is the cheapest place you can buy 16tb nas drive on the market now. Every local outlets are charging over 900 for the same thing.
CamelCamelCamel.
Terrible price. (profanity) AI and price gouging.
What was it before the AI crap? I hope it's going down like it is with RAM…
Hopefully, but the US economy has a significant amount of B2B spending in the tech sector so I'm not sure they can afford to slam the brakes on before this AI thing is done. If agentic AI is successful at stealing our jobs then we have even bigger problems.
Roughly half this. Almost a 3rd if you timed it right…
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/822641 300 for 14tb
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/756788 402 for 16tb
Other brands/skus were even cheaper.
Interesting - Camelx3 show 6 month lowest average was ~580, or all tiem low as 487. The older model ST16000NE000 is only 699 via UMart.
Simple search shows newer model has better TBW and warranty, but unless you need enterprise grade, surely theres better $/TB options brand new.
I'm still rocking my Refurbs from Eastdigital 3 years in.
Even refurbs at Eastdigital have increased massively. Pls share if you know of any placees to buy better $/TB.
I'm considering buying some pulls from Eastdigital but worried they won't be as good as they factory refurb stock.
wow awesome link mate, thanks
Wow this link is amazing!!
Yeah it's (profanity) gross they've upped their prices too. I rate them as a company but that's just too obviously price gouging.
Agreed, just noticed Eastdigital latest pricing. Been out of touched, glad i bought a spare at the time thinking these may had early failure, still sitting in its box.
Depending on needs -Amazon Renew Exos seems better deal; Exos X22 22TZB at 723 - sold via Seagate ~33/tb
Do you get any specific commitments from Eastdigital on the pulls like drive hours and stuff or is it a blind gamble?
My understanding at the time is that these are factory recertified by the manufacturer, when scanned didn't have any SMART data, all values were reset. Coming from mostly datacentres with consistent workload, controlled environments, the risk was something i could consider.
I did run the drive under mini partition to verify any bad sectors, and ran data recovery to see any bits left over, but drive pretty much came like brand new, so unless you're able to open up the drive and inspect the physical disc.
A few weeks ago, they kept the $ number the same, but they changed the currency to USD for everything they sell. They're now more expensive on average than ebay/Amazon.
e.g. Seagate IronWolf Pro 18TB ST18000NE000 went from 483AUD to 483 USD
Oh wow. Those sneaky (profanity). Glad I bought mine a couple months ago now.
Between me and my mates we have about a dozen east digital pulls.
Packaging was overkill. Stats are as expected (and not cleared). Almost 3 years power on, no errors.
All brilliant. No notes.
Now they're in USD, so price isnt great.
wow I can’t believe they simply changed price from aud to usd and no adjustment?! Damn I’m a few weeks too late.
This makes me feel ill.
Everything today is becoming more and more expensive.
Everything goes up increasely,
Work: Here is your 2% increase, thank you for your hard work, above and beyond.
2%? Lucky
Jesus
yikes, almost double what it was a few years ago.
In good old days we were buying 20Tbs for 350ish
Yup, so glad we got a couple of those back then.
Unfortunately, people are spending money like crazy, no matter the price. They will like this for a long time unless something crashes.
$45 a TB alone should make this unsellable. And yet many people are buying. Consumers are terrible.
Unfortunately when you need a drive, you need a drive. And 90% of people buying in these capacities will buy at any price.
"Consumers are terrible" - not like people have too much choice at the moment. Buy (at this price) or don't buy.
And if you need a drive right now the answer is simple.
Also, it is not like holding out for a couple days, week, month you likely will get better pricing - at the moment it seems the only way is up, like it or not.
Yeah exactly. And I think realistically if you refuse to buy at this price, you're likely not going to get even this good of a deal in future, so you're only ripping yourself off by waiting.
Unless you don't actually need it, obviously, in which case an impulse buy isn't going to be necessarily sensible anyway; although it is the ozbargain way haha
it's usually not consumer paying these prices. it's businesses.
Everyone's boss can afford it, while they pay us peanuts.
Basically everyone who isn't right at the bottom of the ladder is a boss of someone, so it can't really be all bosses, or else that means most people haha
This is looney tunes pricing
This is nuts. Paid $580ish at the start of the year and even then it was crazy.
Nope, nope, nope. Can't see myself paying that much…. time to delete things.
For me a $200 intel Arc GPU and an encode into a better compression (av1) is my next step, before deleting.
I’m holding out but even WD red pro 14tb’s been $530, ironwolf pro 8tb $420 at lows that I’ve been watching.
I need two ideally 14Tb +- thereabouts drives but also don’t want to get ripped, anyone got any tips on what to look into - factory refurbs maybe?
8TB Ironwolf's are $388 shipped from US Amazon. That's about the best I've found.
U art has 10tb ironwolf pros for $350 about a week ago. Only sow the price for a day though, probably a price error.
I caught this and put in an order for click and colour, picked it up the next morning and they honoured it without any fuss.
I did see that later that day the price returned to a more normal number and out of stock. I suspect they had the drives on order for a while and that was the old price.
They were 10TB Seagate IronWolf Pros for $348 ea ($34.80 per TB), Model ST10000NT001.
I regret not buying more
Yeah I bought 2, regret starting to kick in aswell
where was the ozbargain post?
Have a look at the pricing for 2tb Samsung M.2 drives … I bought 2 at Christmas 2025 for $270/each which was the cheapest at the time but still inflated like $100 each from several months earlier. They're now selling for $1k+. It's obscene.
I had a 24tb WD Red Pro on order in December from Amazon US stock for around $730 and then in February it had supposedly arrived in Sydney at which point Amazon decided they could make more money by putting it into local AU stock, so they cancelled my order. I then found a 24tb WD Gold for the same price, ordered it, and a month later it arrived from the US and it was knackered. That then took me 6 weeks to get my money refunded … and I still don't have my 24tb drive. A 24tb drive is now well over $1.5k … so I'm just living with what I already have in my NAS and deleting things that I know I'll never watch.
It's beyond insane. I pity anyone trying to build a PC right now with both hard drives and RAM prices at bs levels.
698 for Samsung 2tb on Amazon
Yeah the ones I got were the heatsink versions which are more exxy. Amazon haven't had stock of them for a bit and places like PLE are saying hey we've got these on sale for only $999 instead of the usual $1249 … real good offer /s
Wow.. won't be upgrading my Plex server anytime soon
I've just started my Plex journey - at exactly the worst time!
It's hard to justify the current prices, so for now I've got a bunch of old external HDD's hanging off my homelab. Not that waiting seems like it will help…
If it works it works!
I got a 28TB refurb from the east digital store for $594 end of October.
Been working great, I think that extra density and 512MB cache really helps it stay above 250MB/s more often than expected. Might be double the price now tho.
Windows 11 ltsc iot enterprise gets updates until 2032 (massgrave activation).
It only requires SSE4.2 cpu instructions, which Intel even gave to celerons starting from 2014.
With 28TB finally breaking past 2004 SATA2 speeds, and 44TB releasing now, I feel there’s a gap forming where home-NAS only makes sense when aiming for 10gbps now.
Having just 1 main drive, with free space, which you can also backup, game from, and share as a network drive anyway…
It’s nice.
Mortal Kombat thrashes to only load matches at 28MB/s, so it disqualifies from online play.
But I can just transfer the game to SSD at over 250MB/s before hitting open.
tldr; All recent NAS drives are substantially faster than this 17TB.
I feel it’s starting to limit the need for an extra NAS device at home altogether, due to the new occurrence of 2.5gbps network speeds being achievable and deliverable from a single drive.
I have X16 and HC550, which hit around ~260 MB/s and almost saturate 2.5GbE. I have upgraded everything to 10 GbE with AliExpress used parts, but it is only useful with shared NVMe drives or different HDDs at once.
I checked my last purchase of HDDs around 2022 during those Group buys arranged by neology.
USD175/PCS for 14TB enterprise drive.
4 years later and this insanity is actually a deal? Wow.
I thought AI ruined the RAM and NVME prices. Didn't realise HDD was expensive as well now. Far out!
I got new X16 16TB for $300 back then, but now this :/ I was looking for pulled X16 16TB, but even the cheapest was US$350
who remembers the x18 and x20 TB drives going for $350 a few years back
oh how the tables have turned
Inflation sucks, everything is 45% on average more expensive these days
Take me back to pre-covid days where the world was semi fair
The sooner this AI bubble burst the better.
I am re-commissioning 13 yr old Seagate NAS disks (before they are known as Ironwolf)
But you peeps have to stop subscribing paying any money for AI. Let them go bankrupt with zero business model.
Agreed, feels like the novalty is wearing off lately
Only so much AI you can shove down your throat before you're like (I miss the old days where I could afford stuff)
lol i bought x2 18tb for $700 3 years ago
I NEVER buy hard drives from Amazon anymore since my last experience:
Few yrs ago I bought a WD Red 12 TB from Amazon Germany (I think, it was overseas anyway). It arrived with ONLY in the antistatic bag just THROWN in the (relatively bigger) cardboard box WITH NO PADDING WHATSOEVER!!! Imagine how it just bounced in that box along it’s (long) journey.
I tried to do some surface testing at the time but it got so long that I gave up.
Anyway after some toing and froing with amazin support, I managed to get a full refund and keep the drive. Now I do use it from time to time for non-critical data, still paranoid that I may lose something critical if I use it regularly.
It is really unforgiveable how they send electronic equipment as if they don’t have a brain…
I've only bought from Amazon US and AU for drives. Everytime they come securely packaged with boxes and padding. I would have bought probably 10 drives from Amazon - WD and Seagate. Never had any issues with packaging or damages to drives from shipping. Think the key point is to stay away from Amazon Germany then.
So, stay away from Amazon Germany but Amazon Australia and US alright and worth the risk? What about Amazon Japan?
I bought a Wd Red pro 16tb for around this price yesterday, had to because I had a failing volume pool on my nas :(
I think those are pretty similar drives though anyway right? Unless yours was a recertified?
Just sharing an anecdote, not mad at the price at all or comparing
Where did you buy it?
Local Msy/UMart
I have 16TBx4 HD plus 1 back up thats 14tb for my plex/jellyfin server.
God I will be in shambles the day one of the HD dies and I have to replace em…
Just have them in a sufficient RAID and there's no worry at all aside from the price when one inevitably does die
Prices are insane. The only way it makes sense is if you need storage and try claim it as a tax deduction.
when internet speeds are fast enough, and hard disks are expensive enough, you reach a point where you have to make a call:
do I go for a stremio setup, or do i depend on an *arr stack running a usenet setup?
stuff is stored "in the cloud" already… if you can get it fast enough (or stream it instantly), does is really matter that it's not on your local hard drive?
(meanwhile, you wait and hope $/tb goes down, so you can stop pretending and buy a few more hdds for your mad NAS and go back to boasting on r/datahoarders with the rest of the enlightened)
Terrible time to be buying a hdd. Anyone found any deals for cmr sata stuff, even refurbished etc? Best I can find atm is $506 for WD Red Pro 14TB Amazon US. But saw some talk on past threads about not honouring 5 year warranty and instead providing oem drives or banged up on delivery :/ link
Bad time for buying almost all computer gear
If you take your time on the Facebook marketplace there's some OK prices, bought a new sealed ironwolf pro 20TB in march for $700, and this week i bought a WD ultrastar 14TB for $420 with 350days power on. Currently there's a 6month old 20TB ironwolf pro for $700 listed in canberra.
$45/Tb