2 drives tracked from $41.87/TB. Prices updated about once a day.
32TB costs $41.87/TB right now against $24.76/TB at 4TB, today's best-value capacity - a 69% 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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| $41.87 Lowest $/TB | Seagate SkyHawk AI 32TB ST32000VE000 ST32000VE000 | 32TB SATA-6G | CMR | $1,339.99 | New | Buy on Amazon | |
Part number:ST32000VE000 RPM:— Cache:512MB Sector:512e Workload:550TB/yr DWPD:— Form factor:3.5" Series:SkyHawk AI ASIN:B0GF82V7L6 This offer, in its own words (the seller's note is verbatim): This offer: sold by QuickDealStore · Amazon says New / Unknown | |||||||
| $43.75 ~ 30d avg | 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 | |||||||
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Every listing we track at this size - 3 product pages, including ones with no current offer. Out-of-stock pages carry specs and in-stock alternatives, never a stale price.
One 32TB 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: 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.
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.
2 in-stock listings out of 2 tracked; the cheapest is the Seagate SkyHawk AI 32TB ST32000VE000 at $1339.99 ($41.87/TB). The table on this page is the live ranking.
All 2 in-stock listings are sold new, so the warranty is the manufacturer's own.
2 of the 2 tracked listings carry a manufacturer-sourced conventional (CMR/ePMR) recording value, including the Seagate SkyHawk AI 32TB ST32000VE000 and the Seagate IronWolf Pro 32TB NAS HAMR. 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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