black friday deals havent been that great in 20 years. it used to be a major deal.
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black friday deals havent been that great in 20 years. it used to be a major deal.
This is bullshit.
Black Friday was insane for a handful of years following the Great Recession of 2008. Lasted till the very early 2010s. Retailers were desperate, desperate, to get you in the door or buying things on the website.
k, you obviously dont remember the 90s
Yeah back then it was legit 80% off old inventory as they dumped everything to make room. Online having sales 1+ weeks early and seemingly infinite storage for merchandise really changed this.
Like, wtf is going to wait in line for hours to get -15% on kohls brand tshirts?
When it comes to computing i would disgree, with the rapid leaps that were going on, it didnt make sense to buy the old super marked down stuff because the newer stuff already gave more performance/capacity per dollar spent. it might be great to see some old seagate 500 GBs marked down heavily from their original MSRP until you realize the 2TB one with the 20% discount is a lot cheaper per TB.
We have better price tracking tools now than we did 20+ years ago. There's plenty of websites that will tell me how good a sale price is without me having to skim through a bunch of old issues of Computer Shopper by hand.
Black friday in general is pretty lackluster lately, but keep in mind that you're looking for deals on items that don't really experience the seasonal variability that other consumer products do. People (generally, this sub aside lol) aren't putting HDDs under the christmas tree.
HD Sentinel is 55% off
Internals and SSDs aren't as sexy as externals. "I have to open my computer and install it? I've never done that!" And unlike externals, which are a way for the manufacturers to make money off their 2nd tier stock, internals are a commodity.
Keep an eye on Cyber Monday as retailers have been saving some of their best deals for that day.
Different customer base. I get that. I've used a few externals over my life, but prefer an external case with bays for multiple drives instead of the single casified external.
Did you not want the 22TB WD Red Pro for $335?
$15/TB isn’t quite the price point I was hoping for by now.
Thought that was a great deal. What's a good price per tb?
I bought two of those on 8/30/23 for $230.63 each, or $10.48/TB. As I mentioned above, get Keepa or TheCamelizer & you'll see the price history there. You can also setup price tracking, notifications, etc.
That's $100 more than what I paid for it not that long ago. Get a price tracking app. I prefer Keepa, but CamelCamelCamel (aka the camelizer) should work well also.
Yes. I use the Camel guy. Good app.
Seagate 14TB external hard drive at Costco $149.99
https://www.costco.com/seagate-14tb-expansion-desktop-hard-drive.product.4000203297.html
Are those as easily shucked as WD easystores?
thanks, bought one!
Not in Canada :( or at least where I am which is bullshit.
Always heard about drives at Costco but of course we don't get them.
As a deal addict I can confirm that, generally, if you haven't found a deal on something by Thanksgiving, it's unlikely anything good will surface on BF or CM. Many vendors try to get the jump on BF buy starting their discounts in early November. BF is so called because it's a big profit day for sellers, while it's really Red Friday for buyers.
There are 20 TB EXOS drives for $270 on Newegg.
serverpartdeals has a few refurb deals-
https://serverpartdeals.com/collections/black-friday-cyber-monday-deals
I might have to grab one of the 18tb refurbs for $165
I bought 3 seagate exos 16tb today, looks like quite a good deal but yours is better..
Unfortunately those 18TB drives were $165 for the last month or two tbh. So it's not really a black Friday "deal". Still a good price.
ah yeah that makes sense, serverpartseals doesn't really do sales that I know of
The real sales happened 3-5 weeks ago. Prices are actually up since then.
I don't know if it is a "Black Friday" deal but there are two 18TiB manufacturer refurbished options from goharddrive:
- $159.99 with 5 year reseller warranty ST18000NM003D
- $179.99 with 5 year reseller warranty ST18000NM000J
I bought the ST18000NM003D last weekend, it arrived Wednesday and it has been great so far. Let's see how many months or years it will last~
I still bought the two pack of 18tbs red pros from wdc. Worked out for my needs
I didn't see many deals, I did grab a couple 16tb's off serverpartsdeals.com in order to fill up the remaining 2 3.5" bays I have one server. That and a friend of who's giving up data hoarding sold me 7 slightly used 20tb wd essentials for a bargain, which I'm not going to even shuck those I'll keep them as offline backups.