TerabyteDeals
Shares rank 5 of 6 price comparison sites by recommenders
Compares storage prices by $/TB across retailers; people find it useful, but critics say prices often disagree with retailer pages.
Compares storage prices by $/TB across retailers; people find it useful, but critics say prices often disagree with retailer pages.
19 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 14
- approval share
- 26%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Useful for personal storage shopping
“I just shared something I use myself, hoping it could help someone else.”
Comment from 22 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB” “it's already been helpful to me even with the often inaccurate scraping”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Prices often wrong or unavailable
“Every price i checked on Amazon.de was wrong on your website, this is totally useless!”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB” “it's unfortunately already demonstrably wrong with its first two suggestions”
Comment from 22 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB” “none of the prices on your site agree with the actual item pages on Amazon.”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB” - Comment from 22 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB”
- Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB”
- Comment from 22 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB”
- Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB”
- Comment from 22 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB”
- Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB”
- Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB”
Missing countries such as India
“Unfortunately not, I can see a bunch of other EU countries and Japan, but not India”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB” “none of them support Indian services”
Comment from 21 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB”
Other price comparison sites people recommend
The four most recommended other price comparison sites, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| diskprices.com | 12 | 5 | 71% | 5 | — | Approved |
| camelcamelcamel | 8 | 2 | 80% | 5 | — | — |
| MiniPCs.zip | 7 | 1 | 88% | 2 | — | — |
| Price Per Ball | 7 | 3 | 70% | 1 | — | — |
| TerabyteDealsThis page | 5 | 14 | 26% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
All 20 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“I just shared something I use myself, hoping it could help someone else.”
“it's unfortunately already demonstrably wrong with its first two suggestions”
“Neither allow filtering for CMR (vs SMR) or TLC (vs QLC).”
“Every time I open this site, it firstly shows in dark mode and then switches to light mode after 0.x seconds.”
“all prices I checked were accurate”
“all of the prices are widely off”
“The prices just seem completely wrong from the links I clicked.”
“Sometimes I get prices for items that are unavailable or completely off”
“the value add from a price comparison site like this is minimal to the end user”
“Great! Looking forward to giving it another go once the data has refreshed.”
“Unfortunately not, I can see a bunch of other EU countries and Japan, but not India”
“it's already been helpful to me even with the often inaccurate scraping”
“the prices are less accurate”
“none of the prices on your site agree with the actual item pages on Amazon.”
“Changing the sort by column seems like bare minimum UI feature in 202X.”
“top 5 prices are wrong or the product is not available on Amazon US”
“none of them support Indian services”
“Every price i checked on Amazon.de was wrong on your website, this is totally useless!”
“prices are wildly innacurate”
“The prices don't seem accurate on the ones I checked.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.