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Expand your NAS with a third off this Seagate 8TB IronWolf HDD — 32% discount in Best Buy's 60th Anniversary sale
Storage prices are exceptionally high at the moment, with no end in sight to when the cost of a new drive will fall to the all-time lows of days gone by. If you still need to fill the drive bays of your NAS, though, there are some HDDs available that have received small discounts. Best Buy is currently hosting its 60th Anniversary sales event, with discounts across the board on various tech items, but the deal we're interested in today is on Seagate's 8TB IronWolf NAS Hard Disk Drive, which has had $167 chopped off the list price, making it now $349.99.
At this price, the drive works out to cost $43.74 per TeraByte, which is high compared to the price per TB of larger HDD drives, but you're looking at a lower cost per unit if you're going to purchase multiple drives for backup redundancy. 8TB may not seem the greatest size, seeing as you can get 28TB capacities, but those drives cost considerably more in the current economic climate.
This 8TB 7,200 RPM drive can store more than its fair share of data. It features 256MB of cache and is one of the fastest hard disk drives (HDDs) available, thanks to a 6GB/s SATA connection. Seagate's IronWolf HDD range is designed for 24/7 NAS server operation.
The Seagate IronWolf comes in a standard 3.5-inch metal chassis and is a CMR drive with a 256MB cache and 7,200 RPM disk spin speed. A SATA 6Gb/s interface delivers the fastest transfer speeds available for HDDs and makes plug-and-play exceptionally easy. The IronWolf HDDs have some of the fastest available speeds for NAS operation and are designed for 24/7 operation in a NAS storage environment, with lower noise and vibration.
If you're looking for a disk drive for use in a home server setup or media center, and want reliable, hard-working drives, then the IronWolf range of HDDs from Seagate is perfect for the job. Designed for durability and continued 24/7 operation, the IronWolf HDD comes with a 5-year limited warranty from Seagate.
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Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom's Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.
Tom's gets money from click-through purchases. This is a horrible deal. Price is still over double what it was a year ago. This isn't a "discount". Typical Tom's fake articles as ads.
I saw this price last night and thought "wow how out of touch and ridiculous" then I went to look at HDD prices...
Most 7200 RPM drives are $0.036/GB or higher so $0.043/GB isn't quite as ridiculous as I originally thought. That being said this deal isn't even the best price on this drive as both B&H (out of stock) and Newegg (in stock) have it available for $330 (may be OEM packaging). It seems like moving up to 10TB+ is the best choice for this performance tier of product since it will enable a better price vs capacity even though all pricing right now is nuts.
Tom's gets money from click-through purchases. This is a horrible deal. Price is still over double what it was a year ago. This isn't a "discount". Typical Tom's fake articles as ads.
I remember 8TB being around $100 a few years ago. Since such drives are neither high enough capacity nor fast enough for an AI data centre, I don't understand how the price got so expensive. Could there be some monopolistic price fixing?
I remember 8TB being around $100 a few years ago. Since such drives are neither high enough capacity nor fast enough for an AI data centre, I don't understand how the price got so expensive. Could there be some monopolistic price fixing?
