1 NAS drives tracked from $36.25/TB. Prices updated every 4 hours.
| $/TB ▲ | Brand / Model | Cap | Interface | Tech | Cache | Sector | Wty | Price | Cond. | 90D | Buy | |
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👑$36.25 ~ 30d avg | Seagate IronWolf Pro 32TB NAS HAMR ST32000NT000 CMR · 5yr | 32TB | SATA-6G 7,200 RPM | CMR | 512MB | 512e | 5yr | $1,159.99 | new | Buy →Details | ▼ |
Nothing at 32TB has a buyable offer right now, so there is no live rate to quote. The table above shows what we track at this capacity; it fills in on its own when stock returns.
A NAS buyer is choosing a configuration rather than a drive, and the number that decides it is usable capacity after parity. At 32TB per drive that works out as follows, before filesystem overhead and before you leave the headroom a pool needs to stay healthy:
Those totals are drives only. The enclosure, the memory and the drive bays you leave empty for a future expansion are separate costs, and the last of those is the one people forget: filling every bay on day one means the next upgrade is a full replacement rather than an addition. Our RAID planner works through the configurations properly, and replacing drives with larger ones covers the upgrade path when you get there.
We have not verified the recording technology for the current 32TB stock, so the column above reads unverified rather than guessing. For an array that is worth resolving before you buy - a shingled drive can turn a rebuild into a multi-day event. Paste the exact model into our CMR or SMR resolver and it will answer from the manufacturer's own documentation.
At 32TB the rebuild window is the constraint worth planning around. Resilvering a drive this size takes many hours and often more than a day depending on how busy the pool is, and for the whole of that window a single-parity array has no redundancy left. That is the argument for RAID 6 or RAIDZ2 at this capacity rather than RAID 5, and it is an argument about time exposed rather than about any particular drive being unreliable.
The general rule is that cost per terabyte improves as you go up the ladder until it does not, and where it stops improving moves with the market rather than sitting at a fixed capacity. Comparing the live rate on this page against the neighbouring rungs is the only reliable way to find that point on the day you are buying.
These guides cover drive-family and recording-technology decisions that matter before a NAS buyer substitutes enterprise drives into a multi-bay system.
Nothing at 32TB has a buyable offer right now, so there is no live price to quote. The page updates itself when stock returns.
96TB in RAID 5, 64TB in RAID 6, and 64TB in RAID 10, before filesystem overhead. RAID 6 costs you one more drive of capacity and buys the ability to survive a second failure during a rebuild.
Every in-stock 32TB listing we can verify is conventional recording, which is what an array needs. Any shingled drive that appears is badged SMR in the table.
Larger drives usually improve cost per terabyte, but rebuild windows lengthen with capacity, and at 32TB and above that is the constraint rather than the price. RAID 6 or RAIDZ2 rather than single parity is the standard answer at this size.