Why are hard drive prices so random?

The under $50 ones are used and failing

>SSD shortage causing inflation
>new spying powers and holiday sales causing inflation
>artificial inflation because of muh fire
This is why we need communism.

>>58038033
Size isn't the only factor that's important when choosing a hard drive. Not to mention a hard drive with same/similar specifications made in say, 2007 probably will have some sneaker bullshit compared to one made in 2015.

> are under $50 listed with the same specs. Am I an idiot, or is there a reason for this.

Yeah its a some sort of scam, these drives are not sold by amazon, but instead some 3rd party with a just launched store typically.

Occasionally established buyers get hacked and then people alter the prices to stupid low levels to catch greedy jews

>>58038100
lol

>>58038142
>hack causes prices from reputable seller to drop by 90%
>stumble upon the "hack" and get a new drive for next to nothing

If getting "caught" means getting a great deal, then whatever.

>>58038033
Get a HGST, Toshiba or WD though

Don't fall for the scams and hope that it will arrive well, else you will pay more for returning that shit (god bless warranty)

>>58038100
Communists countries can't even develop SSD's.

>>58038179
I think /csg/ would say otherwise.

>>58038100
not only that, but now so many HDD manufacturers have scaled back production (due to the projections of SSDs taking over) that HDD prices are more or less done dropping; the market for consumer-grade HDDs is shrinking

>>58038173
This isn't some pricing error, you will get squat.

>>58038173
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aag/main/ref=olp_merch_name_1?ie=UTF8&asin=B00KFS3MY8&isAmazonFulfilled=0&seller=A2NT0L28R48EVP

go nuts

>>58038173
>thinking they're going to ship it

>>58038317
Oh they will ship it. But the drive will actually be a 500 GB drive formatted to look like 6 tb

>>58038195
China is not communist fag

>>58038033
What are you using the drive for?
The Seagate 8TB Archive drives are great for media servers etc, but not for where there's a lot of data churning.