New PC storage purchasing web site solely cares about value per gigabyte

When you purchase storage like the best way you purchase bottled water — by getting probably the most to your cash no matter model — a brand new web site known as BuyPerUnit.com is perhaps price watching.

Established by former Microsoft and Docusign exec Jon Levesque, the origin of BuyPerUnit got here when he was attempting to purchase exhausting drives in bulk. As an alternative of specializing in the tip value (as we do), the positioning merely organizes SSDs and exhausting drives by the quantity you’ll pay per gigabyte or terabyte.

Proper now, Levesque notes that the positioning is in its early phases — “a tough V1,” as he places it. As an alternative of paying for API entry, BuyPerUnit has been scraping websites like Greatest Purchase and Amazon for the very best costs, which isn’t at all times probably the most environment friendly means of continuing.

Nonetheless, the positioning favors a barebones strategy, merely providing a listing of filters for varied merchandise (at press time: 332 exhausting drives and SSDs, 108 SD playing cards, and 79 USB drives) by dimension, kind issue, and different standards. You possibly can kind by value per terabyte or value per gigabyte, see what you’ll pay in bulk, after which hyperlink again to the positioning to make the acquisition. One factor that the positioning has taught me already is {that a} refurbished SSD would possibly really be the very best guess in maintaining prices low, in the event you’re purchasing aggressively for bulk storage.

BuyPerUnit.com performs a helpful service to counter the continuing storage shortages that at the moment plague the PC business. Nonetheless, the positioning doesn’t (at the moment) make any provisions for standards that lovers would possibly discover helpful akin to learn/write efficiency or simply which interface an exterior USB drive makes use of, past USB-A or USB-C. You’ll must carry out such analysis your self.

As commenters level out, there are different competing websites to take a look at such because the extremely-responsive DiskPrices.com, which updates costs each 4 hours, however appears to completely pull from Amazon alone. Levesque says that he’s soliciting recommendation, so right here’s mine: separate “exhausting drives” into separate classes for SSDs and rotating drives, and take into account increasing the positioning into reminiscence modules. Efficiency needs to be measured. Levesque has a roadmap in retailer, although, so presumably these options will arrive some day.

Both means, BuyPerUnit simply got here on-line inside the previous few days. It already seems to be like one thing to bookmark in the event you’re available in the market for added storage.