From what the poster says, it appears that the HDD prices vary extremely inside USA, so you must be careful from where you buy.

The poster says that the 28 TB Seagate HDDs have been bought from Best Buy and B&H for around USD 330.

If I look right now at Amazon USA and Newegg, I see much higher prices, in the range of $600 to $700, so buying from there would be a mistake.

However, the reported price seems too good to be true, because looking now at both the B&H & Best Buy online shops I see prices double in comparison with the claimed $330, and which are in line with Newegg and Amazon USA.

So perhaps the poster was extremely lucky and has succeeded to take advantage of some price that was so low only for a short time.

For comparison, last week I have also bought a 28 TB Seagate Expansion HDD, but in the European Union, for USD 550, which is much lower in comparison with the UK price of almost $770 quoted by the Reddit poster, and also much lower than the prices that are listed today on Amazon USA, Newegg, B&H and Best Buy, which are higher by about 10% than what I paid.

On the other hand the Reddit poster has succeeded to buy 10 such HDDs for a price of only 60% of mine, raised after that to about 74% by the import VAT.

Good for him, but taking into account the prices that I see today at 4 US online shops and the continuous price increases in HDDs, it seems that not many, if anyone, will repeat soon such an achievement.

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Aurornis 2 hours ago | parent [-]

HDD prices spiked in the past few days: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1r8swim/holy_h...

2026 production from many of the big manufacturers is already completely sold.

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adrian_b 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, this explains it.

I have also been triggered to buy the 28 TB HDD last week, even if I do not need it yet, but I will need it later this year, after reading the reports that both WD and Seagate have sold out their yearly production.

The price that I paid was already much higher than some time ago.

	▲	Aurornis 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's a lot of panic buying going on. Both at the data center level and the consumer level. My recommendation is that if someone doesn't strictly need the hardware in the next 12 months, it's better to wait it out.