![[ServerPartDeals] Western Digital Ultrastar 14TB 7200 RPM SAS “Refurbished” HDD, about $252 CDN / $18 per TB](https://www.sgdonlineshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/thread-happy-16-7.webp)
The price is $179.99 USD, which currently is about $252 CAD. (It was $254 last weekend, and just $250 an hour ago.)
So the price per TB is roughly $18 CAD + shipping + taxes.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Although it’s easy to connect an SAS drive to SATA cables using an adapter (the cables are wired the same), the controller needs to know how to talk to SAS drives. If you connect it to something that only understands SATA — like most motherboards — it won’t even be able to tell the SAS drive to “turn on.”
ServerPartDeals have other drives, including regular SATA drives, and drives with higher capacities.
Although it used to be recommended by Canadians to purchase from their ebay store, the website is currently better for pricing and offers more options for shipping.
No duty on these specific drives at all (you can check that for items here yourself), but you still have to pay the carrier’s extra profit a.k.a. clearance + handling fees. You can thumb your nose at their handling fee if there’s an office close enough to be worthwhile for you to clear it through customs yourself, but between gas and time I decided not to bother. (I live too far away from the only office we have here.)
I ordered four drives last weekend, when the price was $254 CAD, which came to about $302.17 each, all in, to me here in Winnipeg. Even got delivered a day early.
I somewhat nervously chose DHL express prepaid, because it was the cheapest all-in, even with their $30+ handling fees. I was worried it might not truly be a “fully landed price to your door,” but it actually was.
Personal story time…
I recently built a custom case for a new home NAS I’m building, to finally have a place to put all my spinning rusties so they aren’t scattered among all the PCs we use for various things. I was tired of having to go through so many hoops and hassles just to add or replace a drive in any of the PC cases, no matter how awesome some of those cases are in other ways. I wanted something where I could literally just stand the drive inside, attach the cables, done. So I made my first custom NAS case, with room for 40 hard drives, 3 x 140mm exhaust, and any size of ATX motherboard (technically even larger than EATX). It’s currently using an old AMD motherboard, from like 10+ years ago. Chosen because it uses very low watts even at full speed, through undervolting. Back then it was like AMD recommended voltages that would keep things working even if they were hugely overclocked. As a programmer/gamer/cheapskate I’ve done a lot of overclocking, but this NAS doesn’t need it. 
Why 14 TB? I wanted 14 TB to fit into an existing pool where the largest drives are 14 TB. I’ll use 2 x 14 TB drives for SnapRaid parity, and I have an HBA controller that supports SAS drives. Now I just have to wait for the SAS to 4 x SATA cable to get here, so I can add these new “refurbished” rusties to the 20 other hard drives in the case and try them out.
Statistics: Posted by Writer — Dec 13th, 2025 11:59 am
