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ListofDisks – hard drive price index across 7 retailers not just Amazon

ListofDisks – hard drive price index across 7 retailers not just Amazon

by listofdisks·Feb 12, 2026·4 points·0 comments
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Multi-retailer drive pricing when others just scrape Amazon APIs.

Strengths
  • •Ingests from 7 retailers instead of lazy Amazon-only wrappers; real differentiation.
  • •Smart canonicalization via retailer-specific parsers clusters same SKU across stores.
  • •Useful signals: 90-day median $/TB, historical lows, trust-scored marketplace sellers.
Weaknesses
  • •Coverage gaps acknowledged: CMR/SMR and warranty data only partial, limits confidence.
  • •No clear moat—depends on parsing brittle retailer pages; maintenance burden as sites change.
Category
Data
Target Audience

Storage enthusiasts, NAS builders, data hoarders, IT procurement specialists

Similar To

PCPartPicker (multi-retailer pricing, but broader category) · Camelcamelcamel (price tracking, but Amazon-only) · StorageReview price tracking (for storage pros, less consumer-friendly)

Post Description

I decided to build this after looking for drives for my own new DS1525+. I realized that existing storage price trackers were mostly lazy Amazon API wrappers that ignored other retailers.

ListofDisks tracks offers across Amazon, B&H, Best Buy, Newegg, Office Depot, ServerPartDeals, and Walmart, then normalizes listings into canonical products so the same drive can be compared side-by-side.

Current approach:

Normalization: Retailer-specific parsers + canonical mapping to group listings by actual model Trust Scoring: Filters out low-rated marketplace sellers and mystery listings Context: 90-day median $/TB and historical-low tracking to spot fake sales

Stack: Next.js frontend TypeScript/Node ingestion worker Postgres (Supabase) for DB

CMR/SMR and warranty are included when available but coverage is still partial.

This is a zero-revenue project right now. I just want to make the data accurate and get feedback. I am also considering expanding to memory shortly given the pricing issues with those components currently. Thanks for checking it out!

https://www.listofdisks.com

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