ULTRASTAR HC580 24TB PRICE INTELLIGENCE
Ultrastar HC580 24TB Price
Exact WUH722424ALE604 SATA pricing, real price history and enterprise array economics for the 24TB HC580.
Check the exact 24TB HC580 SATA listing before buying. Compare its current price, price per TB and recent history with HC590 24TB, WD Gold 24TB and other enterprise alternatives.
Price Trend
90-Day Price History
WD Deal Score
Live value by model or family
| Family / model | Capacity | $/TB | 30-Day | Historical position | Deal Score | Signal |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ultrastar HC580 24TBWUH722424ALE604 | 24TB | $46.58 | 0.0% | 0th percentile | 98Medium history | BUY |
| WD Gold 24TBWD242KRYZ | 24TB | $50.51 | -0.7% | 0th percentile | 98Medium history | BUY |
| WD Purple Pro 22TBWD221PURP | 22TB | $43.14 | 0.0% | History in progress | 71Early history | WATCH |
| WD Purple Pro 26TBWD260PURP | 26TB | $44.04 | 0.0% | 0th percentile | 98Medium history | BUY |
Historical position compares today’s price per TB with recent tracked prices for new drives. Renewed, recertified, refurbished and used offers are kept separate.
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Amazon Live
Current Ultrastar HC580 24TB offers
| Drive | Model | Capacity | Amazon price | $/TB | Checked | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Ultrastar DCNew · Provantage LLC | WUH722424ALE604 | 24TB | $1,117.84 | $46.58 | Last verified 2d ago | Buy on Amazon |
As an Amazon Associate, Cloudzat may earn from qualifying purchases. Prices, seller, selected variation and availability can change after the last check. Confirm the exact model, capacity and New condition before checkout.
Capacity Economics
22TB vs 24TB vs 26TB acquisition cost
| Capacity | 22TB | 24TB | 26TB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best current $/TB | — | $46.58 | $48.48 |
| 4-drive raw cost | — | $4,471.36 | $5,042.08 |
| 8-drive raw cost | — | $8,942.72 | $10,084.16 |
| Current model | — | WUH722424ALE604 | WUH722626ALE6L4 |
Raw acquisition cost only. Apply your RAID, RAIDZ, SHR, erasure coding, tax, shipping, spare and chassis costs separately.
Smart Alternatives
Better-value WD options to check
Decision table
What to compare before buying
| Decision factor | Ultrastar HC580 24TB WUH722424ALE604 | Ultrastar HC590 24TB | WD Gold 24TB | WD Red Pro 24TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | HC580 24TB SATA Base exact model | Separate Ultrastar generation | Enterprise SATA alternative | NAS-focused 24TB alternative |
| Price history | Exact WUH722424ALE604 only | Own exact-model history | Own KRYZ model history | Own KFGX model history |
| Best comparison | Enterprise 24TB buy timing | Generation and availability premium | Enterprise family price gap | NAS workload fit and price |
| Before checkout | Confirm E6 SATA suffix, seller and warranty | Confirm exact WUH model/interface | Confirm WD242KRYZ or intended revision | Confirm WD241KFGX and NAS support |
WUH722424ALE604 is the exact 24TB HC580 price target
Ultrastar DC HC580 is a family name, not a sufficient buying identifier. This page follows the 24TB SATA Base (SE) model WUH722424ALE604 because that exact suffix tells the buyer which interface and security variant is being priced. Marketplace titles often shorten the identity to HC580 24TB, and some listings combine several interfaces or security options under one parent product. A low price is useful only when it belongs to the intended variation. Cloudzat therefore keeps the Deal Score, price history and current offer table tied to WUH722424ALE604 instead of blending every product that mentions HC580 and 24TB.
Western Digital also documents WUH722424ALE6L1 as the 24TB SATA self-encrypting variant. It is discoverable as a separate product identity, but its observations do not become WUH722424ALE604 history. That separation matters because SED inventory, seller channels and availability can move differently from the Base (SE) model. Before checkout, compare the model number in the selected variation with the product label you expect to receive. If the listing does not reveal the full WUH model, treat the offer as incomplete evidence rather than assuming all 24TB HC580 units are interchangeable.
SATA and SAS HC580 listings must never share the same price benchmark
The HC580 platform was sold in both SATA and SAS forms. Western Digital's model scheme uses E6 for 512e SATA 6Gb/s and 52 for 512e SAS 12Gb/s. That difference is not a minor specification footnote. A SAS drive cannot be treated as a drop-in replacement for a normal SATA motherboard or SATA-only NAS backplane. Marketplace search results can surface both interfaces together because the family, capacity and enclosure dimensions are similar, so an apparently excellent price can be completely irrelevant to the buyer's host.
This page is deliberately SATA-only. An explicit SAS listing is rejected from the WUH722424ALE604 price view even if it contains the words Ultrastar, HC580 and 24TB. The same rule protects the Deal Score and recorded low from being distorted by another interface. If your system is built around a SAS HBA or enterprise backplane, price that exact SAS model separately. If your system expects SATA, verify the full model suffix and connector before ordering. Interface certainty comes before any conclusion about whether the current price is good.
Why a 24TB enterprise drive deserves buy-or-wait price intelligence
A single 24TB enterprise hard drive can represent a substantial purchase, but the real financial effect appears when a server, backup target or storage node needs several identical units. A modest movement in the unit price becomes four times larger across a four-drive set and eight times larger across an eight-drive set. That is why a simple current-price card is not enough. Buyers need to know whether today's price is near the recent normal range, unusually high, or attractive compared with observations for the same exact model.
Cloudzat combines the present price per terabyte with the price history collected for WUH722424ALE604 and a conservative BUY, WATCH or WAIT signal. When history is still short, the page does not pretend to know a mature fair value. Instead, it gives more weight to current $/TB, same-capacity alternatives and multi-drive acquisition cost. As the observed history grows, the recorded low, 90-day median and historical percentile become more useful. This makes the page helpful both on day one and after months of real market observations.
HC580 24TB specifications explain why a cheaper drive is not automatically equivalent
Western Digital positions the Ultrastar DC HC580 as a data-center HDD with a 24TB CMR option, 7200 RPM operation, SATA and SAS variants, a five-year limited warranty and a workload rating up to 550TB per year. The platform uses OptiNAND, HelioSeal, energy-assisted magnetic recording and ArmorCache. Those characteristics are part of the reason an HC580 offer should be compared with enterprise peers rather than treated as interchangeable with every 24TB consumer or NAS drive on the market.
The specification profile also gives Cloudzat useful guards against bad listings. A search result for an external desktop drive, enclosure, USB adapter, complete server, multipack or unrelated WD family should not enter HC580 price history merely because the seller inserted 24TB in the title. Likewise, the 550TB-per-year workload figure is not storage capacity. The matcher recognizes plausible drive capacities separately so a workload number cannot turn into a fake 550TB drive and corrupt price-per-terabyte calculations. Product identity remains the first filter, then price intelligence begins.
HC580 24TB versus HC590 24TB is a generation decision as well as a price decision
Cloudzat already tracks Ultrastar DC HC590 inventory, including 24TB and 26TB SATA identities. HC580 24TB should therefore be judged against the exact HC590 offer available at the same time rather than assuming the older or newer family label automatically wins. The practical questions are host compatibility, interface, sector format, security variant, warranty channel, current price and whether the buyer values the newer platform enough to pay a premium.
If HC580 is materially cheaper and the platform requirements are satisfied, the older enterprise generation can be economically compelling. If HC590 is close in price, the buyer may prefer the newer family or the capacity path available around it. The important point is that each model keeps its own price history. A temporary HC590 sale cannot make HC580 look artificially expensive inside its historical chart, and HC580 clearance stock cannot create a false recorded low for HC590. Cross-generation comparison belongs in the alternatives table, not inside one blended time series.
WD Gold 24TB is the closest WD-branded enterprise price comparison
WD Gold 24TB and Ultrastar HC580 24TB can appear in the same buying shortlist because both target professional or enterprise storage rather than entry-level desktop use. The correct comparison is not simply which product has the lower sticker price. Check the exact model, interface, warranty route, host qualification, security requirements and seller channel first. Once both options are technically acceptable, current price per terabyte and multi-drive cost can reveal whether the Gold premium or Ultrastar discount is meaningful for the deployment.
The new WD Gold 24TB page follows WD242KRYZ separately from the earlier WD241KRYZ revision, while this HC580 page follows WUH722424ALE604 separately from the SED alternative. That model discipline lets a buyer compare two trustworthy numbers rather than two family labels. If one drive is forty dollars cheaper, the difference becomes one hundred sixty dollars across four units and three hundred twenty dollars across eight. At enterprise capacities, exact-model price comparison can change the project budget without changing the capacity target.
New and recertified HC580 prices answer different risk questions
Ultrastar drives are widely sold through enterprise liquidation, recertified channels and secondary marketplaces. Those offers can be dramatically cheaper than new inventory, but they should not define the benchmark for a buyer intentionally shopping for a new drive. Warranty length, remaining service life, seller testing, return terms and firmware history can differ. A recertified bargain may be rational for a lab or cold spare and unacceptable for a production system, depending on the buyer's risk tolerance.
The main Deal Score on this page therefore uses New-condition observations only. A Renewed, Refurbished, Recertified or Used listing is not allowed to pull the recorded low downward and make normal new-drive pricing appear expensive. That does not mean non-new inventory is always bad. It means the comparison must be honest. When you evaluate a cheaper secondary-market HC580, compare its discount against the warranty and replacement risk explicitly rather than treating its price as proof that a new WUH722424ALE604 offer is overpriced.
Security and interface variants deserve a check before a bulk order
The HC580 model code carries more information than capacity. Western Digital documents separate Base (SE) and self-encrypting SATA models, along with separate SAS variants. WUH722424ALE604 is the 24TB SATA Base (SE) model associated with part number 0F62798, while other security or interface variants use different model and part-number combinations. Most buyers will never need to decode every character, but system builders should not assume that a similar-looking HC580 identifier represents the same drive configuration.
For a one-drive purchase, a mismatch is inconvenient. For an eight-drive deployment, discovering an interface or security-policy mismatch after delivery is much more expensive. Use the price page to shortlist the economical offer, then verify the exact part number against the server, HBA, backplane and security requirements before buying the full set. The lowest price earns attention, not automatic approval. Cloudzat's model-specific history is designed to help with timing after the technical compatibility decision has already been made.
Four-drive and eight-drive cost reveal the real impact of a price move
Enterprise storage is usually bought in multiples, so the unit price can hide the decision that matters most. Four 24TB drives represent 96TB of raw capacity before redundancy, while eight represent 192TB raw. A twenty-five-dollar movement per drive changes those purchase totals by one hundred or two hundred dollars. Larger market swings can change the budget by much more, especially when spare drives are purchased at the same time.
The Capacity Economics panel turns the current matching price into four-drive and eight-drive acquisition cost. Those figures are deliberately raw and do not pretend to know the buyer's RAID, RAIDZ, erasure-coding or replication layout. Use them to compare the cash cost of the media first, then apply the redundancy design separately. If a 26TB alternative costs only slightly more per drive, higher density may be worth it. If the 24TB HC580 is deeply discounted, it may deliver a better capacity-per-dollar result without consuming extra bays.
The Deal Score becomes more useful as exact-model history deepens
A price score is only credible when its evidence is clear. During the first several observed days, Cloudzat labels the history as early and keeps the signal cautious. Once the page has enough daily observations, the 90-day median, recorded low and historical percentile can begin to describe where the current WUH722424ALE604 offer sits within its recent range. The page never manufactures an earlier history simply to make the chart look complete.
That matters especially for enterprise products with uneven availability. A few marketplace listings can create sudden spikes, while a large seller restock can produce a sharp temporary discount. A mature history helps distinguish those events from the drive's more typical pricing. Even then, a strong Deal Score is not a command to buy. It is a timing signal to combine with inventory needs, seller quality, warranty requirements and the cost of delaying the deployment.
Seller, warranty channel and availability can matter more than a small price difference
Enterprise HDD listings often come from a mixture of authorized retail, specialist server suppliers and marketplace sellers. Two offers for the same model can therefore carry different warranty handling, return policies, packaging and delivery confidence. If the price difference is small, the stronger seller or clearer warranty path may be worth more than the savings. This is particularly true when several drives must arrive together for an array build and one missing or questionable unit can delay the project.
Use Amazon Live to inspect the exact selected listing, seller and current price, then verify the warranty route before checkout. If Cloudzat shows a last-verified price older than the normal current window, treat it as context rather than a promise that checkout will match. The Buy on Amazon link remains useful for confirming the live state, but the decision should be based on the price shown by the retailer at purchase time. Historical intelligence helps you judge the offer; it does not replace final checkout verification.
When BUY, WATCH or WAIT makes sense for HC580 24TB
BUY is most persuasive when the exact WUH722424ALE604 is technically suitable, current inventory is trustworthy, the price sits favorably within a mature history and the project actually needs the capacity now. WATCH fits the middle ground: the offer is not obviously bad, but the historical position or nearby alternatives give the buyer a reason to keep comparing. WAIT is strongest when the current price is high relative to a well-developed history and the purchase is discretionary rather than operationally urgent.
Urgency can override a perfect price. A failed drive in a production pool, a migration deadline or a capacity shortage may justify buying at a merely average price. Conversely, a planned expansion six months away does not need to chase today's inventory. The point of this page is to make that trade-off visible. Exact-model identification prevents bad data, price history provides timing context, and multi-drive economics show how much the decision changes the total deployment cost.
Questions people ask
Ultrastar HC580 24TB FAQs
What exact model does this HC580 24TB price page track?
The main page tracks WUH722424ALE604, Western Digital's 24TB HC580 512e SATA Base (SE) model associated with part number 0F62798.
Is WUH722424ALE6L1 the same drive for price history?
It is also a 24TB SATA HC580, but it is the SED security variant. Cloudzat keeps it as a separate product identity so its prices do not become WUH722424ALE604 history.
Does this page include SAS HC580 offers?
No. The price benchmark is SATA-only. Explicit SAS HC580 models use a different interface code and are rejected from the main 24TB SATA history.
How is HC580 24TB price per TB calculated?
Cloudzat divides the latest verified new-drive price for the exact 24TB target by 24. Unpriced listings and non-new conditions do not create a numeric $/TB observation.
Why can the page show Last verified instead of a fresh price?
The normal current-price window is 24 hours. If a later refresh fails, the last successfully verified price can remain visible with its age so useful product identity and buying access do not disappear.
Should I buy HC580 24TB or WD Gold 24TB?
First verify host, interface, security and warranty requirements. If both exact models fit, compare their current $/TB, historical position and four-drive or eight-drive acquisition cost.
Price methodology & sources
How Cloudzat compares WD prices
Cloudzat matches WD offers by family, capacity and model number before including them. Price per TB is the current new-drive price divided by capacity. Price history uses the prices Cloudzat has tracked over time, while renewed, recertified, refurbished and used drives are kept separate from new-drive comparisons.
The Deal Score combines current price per TB with the available price history. When history is limited, the signal stays conservative. The score is a purchase-timing aid, not a reliability rating or compatibility guarantee.
If a newer Amazon check does not return a replacement price, Cloudzat can keep the last successfully verified price visible with its age for reference. Always confirm the live checkout price, selected model, capacity, seller and condition before ordering.