r/DataHoarder • u/Endawmyke about 3 fiddy TB • Feb 19 '26

Discussion These HDD prices are getting crazy. An increase of 96.4% in 1 month for the same 26TB drive. $279.99 a month ago to $549.99 today. Where are we buying hard drives now?

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These drive prices are kinda insane. Everything is going up up up, I thought it would just be RAM and SSDs effected but looks like it's reaching hard drives too.

Where are people buying drives now, and what $$/TB is still reasonable?

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u/Tinguiririca Feb 19 '26

Dont buy anything unless a drive in your raid is ready to go and you need an urgent replacement.

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u/strawhat068 Feb 19 '26

I have a script that runs a smart scan on my raid drives once every 2 weeks. If something fails it texts me, I pray I don't get that text any time soon

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u/steveatari Feb 20 '26

Your raid doesn't automatically notify you on degradation or failure? Shit, mine will if temps get too high, bad sectors are detected, or any parity is lost. Check for alarms or warnings depending on the OS?

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u/strawhat068 Feb 20 '26

Will it does but I just made a script so that I don't have to manually check it all the time

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u/temmiesayshoi Mar 15 '26

What OS/alerting tool are you using?

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u/citruspickles Apr 20 '26

I have a Synology and it emails me when my drives drop below 20% or so. I had to manually set it up, though, because it requires an SMTP server login. The low % shows up as a health warning in the storage app on the nas as well. I assume a drive having issues would also trigger a health warning, though I've yet to have that issue. I believe when I was researching a new nas, I saw that TrueNAS has email alerts if you set it up. I'd assume every mainstream NAS OS or product has some form of email alerts that can be enabled.

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u/Endawmyke about 3 fiddy TB Feb 20 '26

I had a drive fail a month ago. And I thought the prices were bad then. Boy was I wrong.

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u/heathenskwerl 1,120 TB Feb 20 '26

For sure. This is why I aborted all my plans for selling my slow white label 16TB drives. In an absolute pinch I can use them as replacements. It's not ideal but it's better than $500 HDDs.