Disk price comparison site

[stewleach]

I recently created a site to scratch an itch I had while trying to find the best value drives for my home NAS, and thought here would be an appropriate place to share it with the wider community who may also find it useful.

It's called List of Disks https://listofdisks.com/ and uses data from Amazon (currently limited to US and Australian markets) to provide a easy way to compare prices and features.

Let me know how you go, I'm always keen to get feedback to help make improvements.

 

[TempleHasFallen]

Hey, great tool and work. Hope you support Europe soon!

To start you off with some feedback:

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Classified with both wrong type and wrong size


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Many duplicates with exact same price and item and MDL, just different useful portions of the link.

You'll want to trim anything after the highlighted ? to avoid the duplicates. Also helps with removing tracking from the link itself.


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You may want to manually check/filter for "Internal"/"External" to avoid wrong classification.

 

[Ericloewe]

Amazon listings are very often wrong when it comes to parameters like Internal/External, even reputable stuff setup by the OEM and sold by Amazon. Might be worth having manual overrides for such things...

 

[NugentS]

https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MZQLB3T8HALS-00007-3-84TB-PM983-2-5inch/dp/B07Z46Q5SL/ref=sr_1_179?keywords=External+Data+Storage+SSD&qid=1706004832&refinements=p_89%3AHGST%7CHP%7CHitachi%7CLaCie%7CSamsung%7CSanDisk%7CSeagate%7CTOSHIBA%7CWestern+Digital&s=pc&sr=1-179&tag=listofdisks-20&linkCode=ur2

The Samsung 84TB HDD at $299 looks especially good value. OK so its only a 3.84TB PM983 - but you have it listed at 84TB - I think that a coding issue - you missed the "3."



I'd buy several of those - but I think the big data archivers would be snapping them up very very VERY quickly
Think Samsung would like to buy them as well!!

 

[NugentS]

Some more good deals - all showing the same issue

Good first attempt though

 

[somethingweird]

Suggestion: tooltip or title="" - with complete description for those truncated titles.

 

[rmccullough]

I would love to see this include drives from https://serverpartdeals.com/ or similar sites and then provide filters for New, Refurbished, Recertified, etc.

 

[Etorix]

Hey, great tool and work. Hope you support Europe soon!

Use geizahls.de

 

[stewleach]

Great feedback everyone, thanks so much for taking the time and effort to provide this.

I'll be attempting to address these issues to improve the quality of the results (some were already on my radar, but having it called out has provided extra incentive to get it fixed quickly ), its probably never going to be 100% perfect though due to the nature of scraping Amazon results which, as noted, is often incorrect.

My long term goal is to move off from scraping and use Amazons Product API directly (which I'm assuming provides improved data...it might not!) but that requires me to qualify for signup.

Thanks once again. I'll provide an update when a new version is available.

 

[MrGuvernment]

So this site looks identical to yours? Same template used...

https://diskprices.com/?locale=ca

Also a quick search brings up several existing sites..

price per TB disk site at DuckDuckGo

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Doesnt seem to auto update but uses newegg

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Does PCPartPicker have an API that could be used? Since it scrapes sites already

Know there is this old one..

GitHub - nynhex/PCPartPicker-API: An unofficial API to access & scrape data from pcpartpicker.com

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[stewleach]

So this site looks identical to yours? Same template used...

https://diskprices.com/?locale=ca

Also a quick search brings up several existing sites..

price per TB disk site at DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo. Privacy, Simplified.

duckduckgo.com

Hard Drive Prices per TB - HDD Prices Tracker

Looking for the most affordable HDD in terms of storage capacity per dollar? We compare prices from top brands to find the cheapest per TB options in 2024.

hddhunt.com

Doesnt seem to auto update but uses newegg

Price per TB

UK/US

HDD Price per TB

How to Use the Price Per TB Calculator: NOTE - Use the GREEN Bar (ideally for NAS users) to enter your number of bays, RAID failure protection level, budget and whether you want NAS optimized drives only NOTE - Use the YELLOW Bar to filter the results by b

nascompares.com

Does PCPartPicker have an API that could be used? Since it scrapes sites already

Know there is this old one..

GitHub - nynhex/PCPartPicker-API: An unofficial API to access & scrape data from pcpartpicker.com

An unofficial API to access & scrape data from pcpartpicker.com - nynhex/PCPartPicker-API

github.com

Yes, indeed, diskprices.com was the original inspiration. At the time the Aus site was removed due to a complaint from Amazon, but was then resolved and re-instated. I built this to try and plug that gap as I found it very useful. Unfortunately the issue was resolved on the same day I launched mine haha.

 

[MrGuvernment]

Yes, indeed, diskprices.com was the original inspiration. At the time the Aus site was removed due to a complaint from Amazon, but was then resolved and re-instated. I built this to try and plug that gap as I found it very useful. Unfortunately the issue was resolved on the same day I launched mine haha.

Go figure...

I would see if you can get API's from other sources besides amazon alone. Then like PCPart picker,. you could show the price across different sites..

 

[joeschmuck]

That is a funny link. Seeing those high density cheap drives, missing the leading digits. I will stick with my manual research.

 

[stewleach]

Thanks for all the help once again. There should be an updated version now that resolves some of those "quick fix" issues.

 

[joeschmuck]

What did you do? It looks like you removed any drive that had a fractional value so you only have whole TB values. Example: 4TB and any drive such as 3.84TB was removed. I like the idea or the lookup tool but it could be overlooking other good values. I'm sure fixing it is not an easy or at least obvious fix. I can relate.

 

[Davvo]

Amazon listings are very often wrong when it comes to parameters like Internal/External, even reputable stuff setup by the OEM and sold by Amazon. Might be worth having manual overrides for such things...

100% take for the model number and look for the official datasheet publiahed by the manufacturer.

 

[stewleach]

100% take for the model number and look for the official datasheet publiahed by the manufacturer.

That's an interesting idea. My initial reaction was that it would be a lot of work for my individual use case, but if one was created as a central resource, and was provided as a simple REST API, then anyone could have access to accurate and standardised specs.

I did a quick search to see if anything similar existed but came up empty. The PCPartPicker link previously provided appears more generic.

Any ideas if something like this already exists?

 

[Davvo]

Any ideas if something like this already exists?

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