I’m sketching the idea of building a NAS in my home, using a USB RAID enclosure (which may eventually turn into a proper NAS enclosure).
I haven’t got the enclosure yet but that’s not that big of a deal, right now I’m thinking whether to buy HDDs for the storage (currently have none) to setup RAID, but I cannot find good deals on HDDs.
I found on reddit that people were buying high capacity drives for as low as $15/TB, e.g. paying $100 for 10/12TB drives, but nowadays it’s just impossible to find drives at a bargain price, thanks to AI datacenters, I guess.
In Europe I’ve heard of datablocks.dev where you can buy white-label or recertified Seagate disks, sometimes you can find refurbished drives in eBay, but I can’t find these bargain deals everyone seemed to have up until last year?
For example, is 134 EUR for a 6TB refurbished Toshiba HDD a good price, considering the price hikes? What price per TB should I be looking for to consider the drives cheap? Where else can I search for these cheap drives?
I bought 4x12tb Seagate refurbished for around 500€ and 2x8tb WD red pro for 300€. Note the four drives were bought 1 year ago through Amazon and the WD reds were bought in August of 2025, although the site has shut down, but they still have WD warranty. Those people on reddit either found crazy good deals or speak out their ass.
That being said make sure the drives are CRM and that the shop you buy from offers warranty and that it will be around long enough to honour it in case of defects.