The last half-year have seen few movements in spinning disk prices, and actually some have gotten a few coins more expensive. It is still the 8 TB SMR Seagate drive which give most storage for money, only with the exception of a special offer on an external 8 TB WD disk. In fact, several of the external offerings are now cheaper than their internal counterparts.

Also worth noting, is that Western Digital has deprecated their long time cheapest Green line, in favour of the Blue color. However, take care: The Blue line contains both 5400 and 7200 RPM drives. The ones listed here are all 5400 RPM.

On the SSD side, things have also not changed much. There were some promises, but not much in terms of concrete offerings this year.

Finally, many of the flash cards are getting more competitive. Indeed, the the Sandisk Ultra 256 GB key, as well as the 200 GB micro SD card are now pretty great offering for on-the-go storage. They'd fit very decent sized music collections, picture albums, etc.

Media Type Product Capacity Price CHF Price Euros Euros / GB GBs / Euro
External 3.5 Western Digital My Book 8TB, USB3 8000 GB 250.00 233.64 0.03 34.24
HDD-SMR Seagate ARCHIVE HDD 8TB 8000 GB 266.00 248.60 0.03 32.18
HDD Seagate Desktop 4TB 4000 GB 134.00 125.23 0.03 31.94
External 3.5 Western Digital My Book 6TB, USB3 6000 GB 202.00 188.79 0.03 31.78
External 3.5 Western Digital Elements Desktop 4TB, USB3 4000 GB 135.00 126.17 0.03 31.70
HDD Western Digital Blue, 5400 RPM 3TB 3000 GB 107.00 100.00 0.03 30.00
HDD Western Digital Blue, 5400 RPM 4TB 4000 GB 145.00 135.51 0.03 29.52
External 3.5 Western Digital My Book 4TB, USB3 4000 GB 149.00 139.25 0.03 28.72
SMR External 3.5 Seagate Backup Plus Desktop 8TB 8000 GB 300.00 280.37 0.04 28.53
External 3.5 Western Digital My Book 3TB, USB3 3000 GB 115.00 107.48 0.04 27.91
External 3.5 Western Digital Elements Desktop 3TB, USB3 3000 GB 118.00 110.28 0.04 27.20
HDD Western Digital Blue, 5400 RPM 6TB 6000 GB 244.00 228.04 0.04 26.31
HDD Western Digital Red 4TB 4000 GB 164.00 153.27 0.04 26.10
HDD Western Digital Blue, 5400 RPM 5TB 5000 GB 208.00 194.39 0.04 25.72
External 2.5 Western Digital My Passport Ultra 3TB, USB3 3000 GB 125.00 116.82 0.04 25.68
HDD Western Digital Red 3TB 3000 GB 126.00 117.76 0.04 25.48
HDD Western Digital Red 6TB 6000 GB 252.00 235.51 0.04 25.48
HDD Western Digital Blue, 5400 RPM 2TB 2000 GB 84.90 79.35 0.04 25.21
HDD-He Western Digital Red 8TB 8000 GB 345.00 322.43 0.04 24.81
External 2.5 Western Digital Elements Portable 2TB, USB3 2000 GB 88.00 82.24 0.04 24.32
HDD Western Digital Red 2TB 2000 GB 98.00 91.59 0.05 21.84
External 2.5 Western Digital My Passport Ultra 2TB, USB3 2000 GB 103.00 96.26 0.05 20.78
HDD-He Hitachi Ultrastar He6 6TB 6000 GB 361.00 337.38 0.06 17.78
HDD Western Digital Blue, 5400 RPM 1TB 1000 GB 61.70 57.66 0.06 17.34
External 2.5 Western Digital Elements Portable 1TB, USB3 1000 GB 62.00 57.94 0.06 17.26
HDD-He Hitachi Ultrastar He8 8TB 8000 GB 517.00 483.18 0.06 16.56
External 2.5 Western Digital My Passport Ultra 1TB, USB3 1000 GB 72.00 67.29 0.07 14.86
Blu-ray Verbatim BD-R SL 10 @ 25GB 250 GB 23.90 22.34 0.09 11.19
DVD-R Verbatim 16x DVD-R 100 @ 4,7GB 470 GB 46.00 42.99 0.09 10.93
Blu-ray Verbatim BD-R DL 10 @ 50GB 500 GB 49.00 45.79 0.09 10.92
DVD+R DL Verbatim 8x DVD+R DL 25 @ 8,5GB 213 GB 39.00 36.45 0.17 5.83
DVD+R DL Verbatim 8x DVD+R DL 50 @ 8,5GB 425 GB 95.40 89.16 0.21 4.77
SSD Crucial BX200 SSD, MLC, 480GB 480 GB 139.00 129.91 0.27 3.69
USB Flash SanDisk Ultra, USB 3.0, 256GB 256 GB 78.00 72.90 0.28 3.51
SSD Samsung SSD 850 EVO Basic, TLC, 500GB 500 GB 165.00 154.21 0.31 3.24
SSD Crucial BX200 SSD, MLC, 240GB 240 GB 81.00 75.70 0.32 3.17
SSD Samsung SSD 850 EVO Basic, TLC, 1TB 1000 GB 339.00 316.82 0.32 3.16
SSD Crucial MX200 SSD, MLC, 500GB 500 GB 175.00 163.55 0.33 3.06
SSD Crucial MX200 SSD, MLC, 1000GB 1000 GB 374.00 349.53 0.35 2.86
SSD Crucial MX200 SSD, MLC, 250GB 250 GB 95.30 89.07 0.36 2.81
SSD Crucial BX100 SSD, MLC, 500GB 500 GB 193.00 180.37 0.36 2.77
SSD Samsung SSD 850 EVO Basic, TLC, 250GB 250 GB 100.00 93.46 0.37 2.68
microSDXC SanDisk Ultra Premium microSDXC 90MB/s, 200GB 200 GB 85.00 79.44 0.40 2.52
USB Flash SanDisk Cruzer Edge Flash Drive 64GB 64 GB 27.80 25.98 0.41 2.46
SSD Samsung SSD 850 Pro, MLC, 1024GB 1024 GB 454.00 424.30 0.41 2.41
USB Flash SanDisk Ultra, USB 3.0, 64GB 64 GB 28.80 26.92 0.42 2.38
CD-R Verbatim CD-R 100 @ 700MB 70 GB 32.60 30.47 0.44 2.30
SSD Samsung SSD 850 Pro, MLC, 512GB 512 GB 239.00 223.36 0.44 2.29
SSD Samsung SSD 850 Pro, MLC, 256GB 256 GB 139.00 129.91 0.51 1.97
USB Flash SanDisk Cruzer Edge Flash Drive 32GB 32 GB 18.80 17.57 0.55 1.82
USB Flash SanDisk Ultra, USB 3.0, 32B 32 GB 19.50 18.22 0.57 1.76
SDXC SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I, Class 10/UHS 3, 95/90MB/s, 128GB 128 GB 82.80 77.38 0.60 1.65
SSD-NVM-M.2 Samsung SSD 950 Pro, M.2 2280, MLC, 2500/1500MB/s, 512GB 512 GB 361.00 337.38 0.66 1.52
SSD-NVM-M.2 Samsung SSD 950 Pro, M.2 2280, MLC, 2200/900MB/s, 256GB 256 GB 187.00 174.77 0.68 1.46
SDXC SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I, Class 10/UHS 3, 95/90MB/s, 512GB 512 GB 389.00 363.55 0.71 1.41
SSD Samsung SSD 850 Pro, MLC, 128GB 128 GB 99.70 93.18 0.73 1.37
SSD Samsung SSD 850 EVO Basic, TLC, 120GB 120 GB 95.70 89.44 0.75 1.34
SDXC SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-I, Class 10/UHS 1, 95/90MB/s, 64GB 64 GB 55.00 51.40 0.80 1.25
USB Flash SanDisk Cruzer Edge Flash Drive 16GB 16 GB 14.90 13.93 0.87 1.15
SDHC SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I, Class 10/UHS 1, 95/90MB/s, 32GB 32 GB 33.00 30.84 0.96 1.04
Compact Flash SanDisk Extreme 120MB/s, UDMA 7, 64GB 64 GB 75.00 70.09 1.10 0.91
Compact Flash SanDisk Extreme Pro 160MB/s, UDMA 7, 256GB 256 GB 347.00 324.30 1.27 0.79
Compact Flash SanDisk Extreme Pro 160MB/s, UDMA 7, 128GB 128 GB 175.00 163.55 1.28 0.78
Compact Flash SanDisk Extreme Pro 160MB/s, UDMA 7, 64GB 64 GB 98.50 92.06 1.44 0.70
USB Flash SanDisk Cruzer Edge Flash Drive 8GB 8 GB 12.90 12.06 1.51 0.66
Compact Flash SanDisk Extreme 120MB/s, UDMA 7, 32GB 32 GB 52.70 49.25 1.54 0.65
SDHC SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-I, Class 10/UHS 1, 95/90MB/s, 16GB 16 GB 27.00 25.23 1.58 0.63
SDXC SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-II, UHS 3, 280/250MB/s, 64GB 64 GB 117.00 109.35 1.71 0.59
Compact Flash SanDisk Extreme Pro 160MB/s, UDMA 7, 32GB 32 GB 60.10 56.17 1.76 0.57
Compact Flash SanDisk Extreme 120MB/s, UDMA 7, 16GB 16 GB 36.40 34.02 2.13 0.47
SDHC SanDisk Extreme Pro SDHC UHS-II, UHS 3, 280/250MB/s, 16GB 16 GB 52.70 49.25 3.08 0.32

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