3TB SAS Enterprise HDD - Live Prices

11 drives tracked from $15.13/TB. Prices updated about once a day.

Best $/TB
$15.13
Average $/TB
$23.41
From
$45.39
Condition
Capacity
10 of 10 part numbers (11 offers)
  • $15.13/TB$45.39
    HGST HUS724030ALS640 3TB SAS 6G
    HUS724030ALS640
    3TB · SAS-6G
    Refurb
  • $16.00/TB$48.00
    Seagate Constellation ES.2 3TB SAS Enterprise
    ST33000650SS
    3TB · SAS-6G · 2 offers
    Refurb
  • $18.33/TB$55.00
    HGST Ultrastar HUS723030ALS640 3TB SAS 6G
    HUS723030ALS640
    3TB · SAS-6G
    Refurb
  • $19.84/TB$59.53
    HP MB3000FBUCN 3TB SAS 6G
    MB3000FBUCN
    3TB · SAS-6G
    Refurb
  • $20.00/TB$59.99
    MDD 3TB SAS 6G 7200RPM
    MD3TSAS12872E
    3TB · SAS-6G
    Refurb
  • $23.00/TB$69.00
    Seagate ST3000NM0023 3TB SAS 6G 7.2K
    ST3000NM0023
    3TB · SAS-6G
    New
  • $26.33/TB$79.00
    Seagate 3TB Enterprise Capacity SAS 6G
    ST3000NM0023
    3TB · SAS-6G
    Refurb
  • $29.34/TB$88.02
    Seagate Constellation ES.2 3TB SAS Enterprise
    ST33000650SS
    3TB · SAS-6G
    New
  • $33.00/TB$99.00
    HGST HUS724030ALS640 3TB SAS 6G
    HUS724030ALS640
    3TB · SAS-6G
    New
  • $39.58/TB$118.75
    HP 653959-001 3TB SAS 6G
    653959-001
    3TB · SAS-6G
    New

Guides for this capacity: the HDD price forecast · fill a NAS at today's prices

Every tracked 3TB SAS drive

Every listing we track at this size - 9 product pages, including ones with no current offer. Out-of-stock pages carry specs and in-stock alternatives, never a stale price.

Reference pages for these SAS drives

Part numbers - what each field in the number means, and the sibling variants it is confused with
CMR or SMR - the recording technology, with the manufacturer document it rests on

3TB SAS vs 3TB SATA → (coming soon)

3TB SAS HDD Buyer's Guide

⚡

10K SAS Value Play

Small-capacity 10K RPM SAS drives are the cheapest way into low-latency enterprise storage. OEM pulls from Dell and HP often come with caddy trays included.

📦

OEM Pulls Are Fine

Dell, HP, and IBM OEM-branded drives are the same Seagate or HGST mechanisms with custom firmware. They work in any SAS controller and are significantly cheaper.

🔧

Check Sector Size

512n drives are universally compatible. 512e drives emulate 512-byte sectors on 4K physical sectors. Both work, but 512n avoids alignment edge cases on older controllers.

📊

OLTP vs Nearline

10K 2.5" drives suit small-database IOPS workloads. 7.2K 3.5" nearline drives at this capacity are ultra-cheap bulk storage for dev/test or cold data.

Frequently Asked Questions

11 in-stock listings out of 11 tracked; the cheapest is the HGST HUS724030ALS640 3TB SAS 6G at $45.39 ($15.13/TB). The table on this page is the live ranking.

Both are in stock: 4 new and 7 recertified or used. The cheapest new is the Seagate ST3000NM0023 3TB SAS 6G 7.2K at $69.00, the cheapest recertified or used the HGST HUS724030ALS640 3TB SAS 6G at $45.39 - a 34% shelf gap between two different models, not a like-for-like discount. New carries the manufacturer's warranty; recertified a reseller's.

None of the 11 tracked listings (including the HGST HUS724030ALS640 3TB SAS 6G) has a manufacturer-sourced recording value yet, so this page states none - an unsourced drive is never assumed CMR.

HGST, Seagate, HP, MDD - that is what has live or recently-live listings, not the manufacturers' full line-ups.

Monthly average $/TB (level)

$22
Aug
$21
Sep
$23
Oct

Monthly average of every listing tracked that month, new and used together. A level, not a price change: it moves when the mix of listings changes.

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Workload Fit

Nearline / Warm
Cold Archive
Backup Target
Mixed OLTP
Mission Critical

SAS enterprise HDDs suit nearline and backup workloads requiring dual-port multipath and high sustained throughput.

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