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Looking for refurbished enterprise HDD (10-20TB) (not buying, just searching)
Trying to see what’s in stock atm, since eBay/Amazon are crazy expensive right now, like $200-800 per 10-24TB. Where do you guys find cheap refurbished enterprise HDDs for backups n such? I currently run a 12TB refurb enterprise HDD (6+ yo and still running) and a 14TB (a year or two old) in my home server, and they work fine. I remember paying less than $100 on eBay for them. jfc, is there any cheap enterprise HDD nowadays? SATA preferred. Northern California, US. Shipping within the US only.
Is it still Expenisive?
- Enterprise HDD5 votes
- yes80.00%
- no20.00%
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It's still expensive.
It's getting expensive now because of surging AI storage demand.
So expect storage server prices to go up as well.
https://www.trendforce.com/news/2026/10/02/news-toshiba-to-double-ai-data-center-hdd-capacity-by-fy2027-with-380m-expansion-as-ai-storage-demand-surges/
I've seen most eBay business sellers (non p2p) have them crazy expensive, if you can refine what drive brand/size you want to look for and wait for someone to put one up, ask for smart stats and maybe best offer and pray it's not some smart reset drive. I got a 18TB on eBay in june for $350 for reference, just took some waiting.