1 NAS drives tracked from $43.75/TB. Prices updated about once a day.
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| $43.75 Lowest $/TB | Seagate IronWolf Pro 32TB NAS HAMR ST32000NT000 | 32TB SATA-6G | CMR | $1,399.99 | New | Buy on Amazon | |
Part number:ST32000NT000 RPM:7200 Cache:512MB Sector:512e Workload:550TB/yr DWPD:— Form factor:3.5" Series:IronWolf Pro ASIN:B0GBYM5GS9 Warranty:5 yr - not confirmed by a vendor document This offer, in its own words (the seller's note is verbatim): This offer: sold by QuickDealStore · Amazon says New / Unknown | |||||||
One 32TB NAS drive, in decimal units (1TB = 1,000GB), before file-system and RAID overhead. Each line is a division you can redo; the per-file sizes are our assumptions and say so.
Security cameras, recording continuously: 925 camera-days - 8 cameras for 115 days. The arithmetic: 3.2 Mbps ÷ 8 = 0.4 MB/s × 86,400 s = 34.56 GB per camera-day; 32,000 GB ÷ 34.56 = 925 camera-days. The bitrate is WD's reference figure for one stream (single stream, 1080p, h.265, 25fps), from WD Purple / WD Purple Pro data sheets (footnote 3); the 8-camera count is our example. A camera set to a higher bitrate fills the drive proportionally faster.
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Every listing we track at this size - 1 product page, including ones with no current offer. Out-of-stock pages carry specs and in-stock alternatives, never a stale price.
We can currently price 1 in-stock 32TB NAS drive from Seagate. The best rate is $43.75 per terabyte, against a $43.75 median across the same capacity - a spread worth noticing, because at this size the gap between the cheapest listing and the middle of the market is real money rather than rounding. The lowest ticket price on a single drive is $1,400.
Everything in stock at this capacity is new, so each drive carries the manufacturer's own warranty rather than a reseller's. If recertified stock appears later it will show in the condition column and should be read as a different purchase rather than a discount on the same one.
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.
All 1 in-stock 32TB drive we can verify use conventional recording, which is what an array needs. Shingled drives overlap their tracks to gain density, and the cost of that is rewrite behaviour that can turn a RAID rebuild into a multi-day event or make it fail outright. At this capacity the stock we track is clean.
Warranty terms in stock run 5 years, and workload ratings run 550TB/year. That rating is the manufacturer's statement about sustained annual writes, and a NAS serving a household rarely approaches it - it matters when the array is a backup target or a surveillance recorder rather than a media library.
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.
The cheapest in-stock 32TB NAS drive we track works out at $43.75 per terabyte. Prices refresh about once a day, so the table above is the current answer rather than this sentence.
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.