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6TB SATA Enterprise HDD - Live Prices

28 drives tracked from $28.33/TB. Prices updated about once a day.

Best $/TB
$28.33
Average $/TB
$48.31
From
$169.99
Condition
Capacity
26 of 26 part numbers (28 offers)
  • $28.33/TB$169.99
    Seagate BarraCuda 6TB ST6000DM003
    ST6000DM003
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $29.17/TB$174.99
    WD Purple 6TB WD60PURZ
    WD60PURZ
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $30.00/TB$179.99
    Seagate SkyHawk 6TB ST6000VX0023
    ST6000VX0023
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $31.67/TB$189.99
    Seagate SkyHawk 6TB ST6000VX001
    ST6000VX001
    6TB · SATA-6G · 3 offers
    Refurb
  • $33.33/TB$199.99
    MDD 6TB SATA 6G 7200RPM 128MB Enterprise
    MD6TSATA12872E
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $33.33/TB$199.99
    WD Red Pro 6TB WD6003FFBX
    WD6003FFBX
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $33.83/TB$203.00
    WD Purple 6TB WD60PURX
    WD60PURX
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $35.00/TB$209.99
    WD Purple 6TB WD63PURZ
    WD63PURZ
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $38.18/TB$229.07
    Seagate BarraCuda 6TB ST6000DMZ03
    ST6000DMZ03
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $38.33/TB$229.99
    Seagate IronWolf 6TB NAS ST6000VN0041
    ST6000VN0041
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $41.50/TB$249.00
    Seagate BarraCuda 6TB ST6000DM003
    ST6000DM003
    6TB · SATA-6G
    New
  • $45.83/TB$275.00
    Seagate SkyHawk 6TB ST6000VX001
    ST6000VX001
    6TB · SATA-6G
    New
  • $46.67/TB$279.99
    Seagate IronWolf 6TB NAS ST6000VN001
    ST6000VN001
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $50.00/TB$299.99
    Seagate BarraCuda 6TB ST6000DMZ03
    ST6000DMZ03
    6TB · SATA-6G
    New
  • $50.00/TB$299.99
    WD Red Legacy 6TB WD60EFRX
    WD60EFRX
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $50.92/TB$305.49
    WD Purple 6TB WD60PURX
    WD60PURX
    6TB · SATA-6G
    New
  • $54.42/TB$326.50
    WD Purple 6TB WD60PURZ
    WD60PURZ
    6TB · SATA-6G
    New
  • $54.82/TB$328.90
    WD Purple 6TB WD63PURZ
    WD63PURZ
    6TB · SATA-6G
    New
  • $57.33/TB$343.99
    Seagate IronWolf 6TB NAS ST6000VN0041
    ST6000VN0041
    6TB · SATA-6G
    New
  • $58.17/TB$349.00
    Seagate IronWolf 6TB NAS ST6000VN001
    ST6000VN001
    6TB · SATA-6G
    New
  • $58.33/TB$349.99
    WD Ultrastar 6TB SATA
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $59.16/TB$354.93
    WD Red Pro 6TB WD6005FFBX
    WD6005FFBX
    6TB · SATA-6G
    Refurb
  • $65.74/TB$394.45
    WD Ultrastar 6TB SATA
    6TB · SATA-6G
    New
  • $69.92/TB$419.50
    WD Red Pro 6TB WD6005FFBX
    WD6005FFBX
    6TB · SATA-6G
    New
  • $88.58/TB$531.45
    WD Red Pro 6TB WD6002FFWX
    WD6002FFWX
    6TB · SATA-6G
    New
  • $95.00/TB$570.00
    WD Red Pro 6TB WD6003FFBX
    WD6003FFBX
    6TB · SATA-6G
    New

Guides for this capacity: ironwolf pro 32tb vs wd red pro 26tb · skyhawk ai 32tb vs wd purple pro 26tb · wd purple pro 26tb vs wd red pro 26tb · wd purple pro 26tb vs 24tb · seagate exos 36tb vs 32tb · wd gold 26tb vs ultrastar hc590 · wd gold 26tb vs wd red pro 26tb · hpe 26tb sas vs sata · the HDD price forecast · fill a NAS at today's prices

Every tracked 6TB SATA drive

Every listing we track at this size - 25 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 SATA 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

How much can 6TB store?

One 6TB 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: 173 camera-days - 8 cameras for 21 days. The arithmetic: 3.2 Mbps ÷ 8 = 0.4 MB/s × 86,400 s = 34.56 GB per camera-day; 6,000 GB ÷ 34.56 = 173 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.

  • Photos: 1,200,000 photos (our assumption: 5 MB per JPEG)
  • RAW photos: 200,000 frames (our assumption: 30 MB per frame)
  • 1080p films: 750 films (our assumption: 8 GB per film)
  • 4K HDR films: 100 films (our assumption: 60 GB per film)
  • TV seasons (1080p): 200 seasons (our assumption: 30 GB per season)
  • Lossless music tracks: 200,000 tracks (our assumption: 30 MB per FLAC track)
  • Office documents: 30,000,000 files (our assumption: 200 KB per file)

6TB SATA HDD Buyer's Guide

🏆

NAS Sweet Spot

6-12TB is the most popular NAS capacity range. IronWolf Pro and Red Pro dominate here with vibration sensors and multi-bay optimization.

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IronWolf Pro vs Ultrastar

IronWolf Pro includes IronWolf Health Management and AgileArray. Ultrastar offers higher workload rating (550 vs 300 TB/yr). Both are CMR and excellent.

📊

Helium Sealed

8TB+ SATA drives use helium-sealed platters for cooler, quieter operation with lower power draw. Failure rates on helium drives are among the lowest in the industry.

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Best $/TB Tier

This capacity range often delivers the best $/TB for SATA enterprise storage, especially on 8-12TB Exos and Ultrastar refurb units.

Frequently Asked Questions

28 in-stock listings out of 28 tracked; the cheapest is the Seagate BarraCuda 6TB ST6000DM003 at $169.99 ($28.33/TB). The table on this page is the live ranking.

Both are in stock: 12 new and 16 recertified or used. The cheapest new is the Seagate BarraCuda 6TB ST6000DM003 at $249.00, the cheapest recertified or used the Seagate BarraCuda 6TB ST6000DM003 at $169.99 - a 32% shelf gap between two different models, not a like-for-like discount. New carries the manufacturer's warranty; recertified a reseller's.

10 of the 28 tracked listings carry a manufacturer-sourced conventional (CMR/ePMR) recording value, including the Seagate SkyHawk 6TB ST6000VX001 and the Seagate SkyHawk 6TB ST6000VX001. 18 are not sourced either way - an unsourced drive is never assumed CMR here.

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

Monthly average $/TB (level)

$43
Aug
$44
Sep
$46
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

SATA enterprise HDDs offer the best $/TB for bulk nearline storage, backup targets and cold archive tiers.

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