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New comment by deeddy in "Show HN: I built the NAS drive comparison table I couldn't find"

deeddy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:56:28 +0000

Thank you! Let me know if there's anything I can add to make the website more useful for you.

New comment by deeddy in "Show HN: I built the NAS drive comparison table I couldn't find"

deeddy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:39:04 +0000

Good news - it's already there! Check out the Deals page: https://www.nasdisks.com/deals/

Show HN: I built the NAS drive comparison table I couldn't find

deeddy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:19:57 +0000

For the past few years I've been building a huge NAS storage with over 1PB in size. As its growing over time, buying new drives is always a tedious process. It's hard to tell whether a drive is CMR or not. Some manufacturers are known for sneaking in SMR into their NAS line of disks. There's always multiple browser tabs open and very often they are in total disagreement.

So, first I built a table, which turned into this website. It fetches daily prices for all NAS disks from Amazon, and covers 8 different regions. It has price history, shows if a disk is a CMR or SMR, and its failure rates (I had to compile tons of raw data from Backblaze public Drive Stats).

It has both NAS hard drives and SSD, and you can see price per terabyte for each drive listed.

It is free and it needs no login. I worked hard to keep the data honest, so only new drives are listed and all scalpers and grey market was removed. The whole dataset is also available for free under CC BY 4.0 license on the Data page (Backblaze part is attributed as needed). It's also published on Github.

Your feedback is very welcome. If you notice anything missing or wrong, please let me know, and I'll fix it asap. Best features on the website were added because users asked for them, so any suggestions are welcome!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48830983

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New comment by deeddy in "Show HN: Chiptune Radio"

deeddy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:22:23 +0000

Omg, I haven't heard any MOD music in decades, and now I'm instantly addicted to listening to it again! Thank you for the good memories!

New comment by deeddy in "LineageOS Statistics"

deeddy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:12:32 +0000

Are theysaying that most installs are done on PC emulators and Linux STBs?

New comment by deeddy in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

deeddy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:09:56 +0000

I've seen it last night, and I was like wtf?! Frankly, if they tried to build in some backdoor, I bet they would have done it differently, not so obviously. This must have been some sort of stupidity done for testing purposes, and just got buried deep in the code and forgotten.

This is the main reason why you should always use OpenWRT or other opensource router OS. If it gets an issue, at least it would get patched in the next update.

New comment by deeddy in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

deeddy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:06:59 +0000

To be totally honest, I don't think I can live without ZFS anymore. Deduplication and snaphots in 2026 are a must.

New comment by deeddy in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

deeddy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:45:23 +0000

How come the same hardware that was $2000 is now packed under a different name and costs double - $4000?! It's literally the same PC that was twice as cheaper 6 months ago.

New comment by deeddy in "Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors"

deeddy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:43:27 +0000

The main reason is that they are based locally, they charge in EUR, you can get the VAT back, and they are much more affordable than AWS.