1 drives tracked from $50.00/TB. Prices updated about once a day.
26TB costs $50.00/TB right now against $22.22/TB at 18TB, today's best-value capacity - a 125% premium per terabyte. See the full value-frontier curve for the arithmetic, including when the premium is still the right buy for a fixed bay count.
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| $50.00 Lowest $/TB | WD Red Pro 26TB NAS WD260KFGX WD260KFGX | 26TB SATA-6G | CMR | $1,299.99 | Refurb | Buy on Amazon | |
Part number:WD260KFGX RPM:7200 Cache:512MB Sector:— Workload:— DWPD:— Form factor:3.5" Series:WD Red Pro ASIN:B0DYQH1N48 Warranty:not stated by a source This offer, in its own words (the seller's note is verbatim): This offer: sold by Rippid (S/N Recorded) · Amazon says Used / LikeNew · Rippid (S/N Recorded)'s note: ITEM COMES IN ORIGINAL PACKING - MISSING SCREWS AND MANUAL- ITEM IS NEW- NO DAMAGES OR SIGN OF USE | |||||||
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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.
One 26TB SATA hard 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: 752 camera-days - 8 cameras for 94 days. The arithmetic: 3.2 Mbps ÷ 8 = 0.4 MB/s × 86,400 s = 34.56 GB per camera-day; 26,000 GB ÷ 34.56 = 752 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.
These pages cover exact model families and recording-technology decisions that a generic capacity table cannot settle.
22TB+ capacity is enabled by HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) on Seagate Exos and conventional PMR on WD Ultrastar. Both are production-qualified for hyperscale.
These drives are designed for cloud service provider deployments. Minimum order quantities may apply for the best pricing on 30TB+ models.
Highest-capacity drives (30TB+) may have extended lead times. Check stock status carefully - out-of-stock listings can take weeks to fulfill.
A single 2U 12-bay server with 24TB drives = 288TB raw. Plan your density target and compare against multiple smaller drives for redundancy.
1 in-stock listing out of 1 tracked; the cheapest is the WD Red Pro 26TB NAS WD260KFGX at $1299.99 ($50.00/TB). The table on this page is the live ranking.
All 1 in-stock listings are recertified or used, so the warranty comes from the seller rather than the manufacturer; each row shows its own claim.
1 of the 1 tracked listings carry a manufacturer-sourced conventional (CMR/ePMR) recording value, including the WD Red Pro 26TB NAS WD260KFGX. 0 are not sourced either way - an unsourced drive is never assumed CMR here.
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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