Drive market

This page lists current pricing for ZFS-grade drives across the tiers Bucket recommends. The interesting column is $/TiB-yr (modeled) — the same number Bucket's calculator produces, applied to each row's observed price band under default drought-resistant assumptions (3-way mirror, 1 cold spare, treading workmode). The table sorts by that column. Sort by raw $/TB if you want; the point of Bucket is that raw $/TB is the wrong unit.

Prices are hand-curated — verified manually each quarter against eBay sold-listings, Amazon, Seagate-direct refurb, and a small set of reputable recert sellers. No real-time scraping; no display ads. See /about for the publication model.

v0.3 initial publication: pricing pending the first refresh. The page structure (which tiers, which sources) is final; the price column will populate after the first curation pass per /about's refresh procedure.

← back to the calculator

How to read this table

• Observed price band — the typical range, not the cheapest auction. Eyeball-low and eyeball-high from the spread.
• $/TiB-yr (modeled) — the price band run through Bucket's decision math. Lower is better. Sort by this column.
• Where to buy — eBay sold-listings, Amazon, and Seagate-direct refurb where applicable. Affiliate-tagged links are marked (aff); non-affiliated competitors are listed alongside as the honesty marker.