A UK redditor flew to New York City to buy 280 TBs worth of HDDs to avoid 'literally ridiculous' pricing, declares it was 'worth it in the end'

A UK redditor flew to New York City to buy 280 TBs worth of HDDs to avoid ‘literally ridiculous’ pricing, declares it was ‘worth it in the end’ | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these Memory ‘As DRAM prices continue to rise, protecting product authenticity has become increasingly important’: Corsair changes Vengeance DDR5 packaging in bid to deter scams Memory Relief that the worst is over or just the calm before the hurricane continues? Some reports suggest that DRAM prices have plateaued or even fallen Memory Explainer: The RAMpocalypse is making memory, SSDs, and even GPUs much more expensive, and it’s all down to AI Memory And I thought DDR5 prices were bad: Samsung is apparently charging $700 for its latest AI-empowering HBM product Storage Old school hard drives are getting more reliable according to a new survey but good luck buying one later this year thanks to AI demand Memory Yes, Chinese DRAM is fine for gaming but don’t think for one moment that any of it is a bargain Storage Microsoft says its glass-based storage project now works with ‘the same material found in kitchen cookware and oven doors’ and can hold data for 10,000 years SSDs Best SSD deals for gaming today Gaming Laptops HP has a gaming laptop subscription service, where you pay monthly to borrow a rig but never get the option to own it Gaming PCs Holy RAMpocalypse! Here’s an RTX 5070 Ti gaming PC with a load of RAM and SSD storage, all inexplicably at last year’s price SSDs Best external SSDs for gaming in 2026: These are the portable drives I’d use for backups, game libraries, and travel storage SSDs Unfortunately, all of that doomsaying last year was correct and SSD prices are surging as a result of the memory crisis Gaming PCs I have to ask what this prebuilt gaming PC is doing with 32 GB of DDR5 RAM—but for only $1,235, I can afford to ask fewer questions Memory Redditor scores $500 worth of DDR4 at local dump and now I’m wondering if every landfill is actually a goldmine HDDs Best external hard drives in 2026: the storage media I’d take on my own gaming adventures PopularNEW: PC Gamer Clips!Arc RaidersBest PC gearFalloutGame Quizzes Hardware Storage A UK redditor flew to New York City to buy 280 TBs worth of HDDs to avoid ‘literally ridiculous’ pricing, declares it was ‘worth it in the end’ News By Andy Edser published 23 February 2026 I would fly several thousand miles, and I would fly several thousand more… When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Manfred Rutz via Getty Images) Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter PC Gamer Get the PC Gamer Newsletter Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brands Receive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. You are now subscribed Your newsletter sign-up was successful Want to add more newsletters? Every Friday GamesRadar+ Your weekly update on everything you could ever want to know about the games you already love, games we know you’re going to love in the near future, and tales from the communities that surround them. Signup + Every Thursday GTA 6 O’clock Our special GTA 6 newsletter, with breaking news, insider info, and rumor analysis from the award-winning GTA 6 O’clock experts. Signup + Every Friday Knowledge From the creators of Edge: A weekly videogame industry newsletter with analysis from expert writers, guidance from professionals, and insight into what’s on the horizon. Signup + Every Thursday The Setup Hardware nerds unite, sign up to our free tech newsletter for a weekly digest of the hottest new tech, the latest gadgets on the test bench, and much more. Signup + Every Wednesday Switch 2 Spotlight Sign up to our new Switch 2 newsletter, where we bring you the latest talking points on Nintendo’s new console each week, bring you up to date on the news, and recommend what games to play. Signup + Every Saturday The Watchlist Subscribe for a weekly digest of the movie and TV news that matters, direct to your inbox. From first-look trailers, interviews, reviews and explainers, we’ve got you covered. Signup + Once a month SFX Get sneak previews, exclusive competitions and details of special events each month! Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletter The good folks over at the r/DataHoarder subreddit take storage seriously. This, I would imagine, is obvious. One user, however, took their desire for silly amounts of hard drive space to the extreme when they flew from the UK to New York City in order to purchase ten 28 TB external hard drives, all in an effort to avoid inflated prices (via Videocardz).Redditor cgtechuk recounted their adventure to the group over the weekend, and while the lengths they went to to get their hands on such mega-sized drives seems excessive, it looks like their experience was a remarkably positive one.Decided to fly to the US to buy some hard drives from r/DataHoarder”Having been watching the prices of 28 TB drives go literally ridiculous in the UK, I decided to book a short trip to New York just after new year to stock up on some 28 TBs,” says our intrepid storage explorer. “And given that the prices were only going up I decided to buy 10 of them.” Related articles Redditor scores $500 worth of DDR4 at local dump and now I’m wondering if every landfill is actually a goldmine Running Factorio from over 1,000 floppy disks is a masochistically manual process that surely sets a new record for game load times This Cyber Monday might be the perfect time to invest in a quality home NAS, so you don’t have to rely on iffy cloud storage for your crucial documents “The 2 main issues were that they were in and out of stock in both Best Buy and B&H Photo and [I] didn’t want to risk getting orders cancelled by ordering 2 x 5 drives from the same place as they both have a max purchase limit of 5. So [I] found a day when they were in stock in both places.”After arriving in the US, cgtechuk says they were worried about “being scammed”, so they reco