UNSPSC 43201803: Hard disk drives

A hard disk drive (HDD) is the mechanism that controls positioning, reading, and writing of data and furnishes the largest amount of data storage for a PC.

UNSPSC 43201803 Hard disk drives is a Commodity code under which state and local governments procure internal storage drives for data centers, specialized computing infrastructure, and forensic systems. Recent solicitations show purchasing focused on enterprise-grade NAS drives, SAS SSDs for mission-critical systems, and high-capacity RAID-configured drives for law enforcement digital forensics. Buyers include county departments of information technology services, city IT offices, state health agencies, and municipal police departments. The purchasing pattern reflects replacement of aging infrastructure, capacity expansion, and specialized performance requirements rather than commodity bulk ordering—drives are specified by model, interface type, RPM, capacity, cache, and form factor to match existing system architectures.

Gwinnett County, Georgia; the City of Pembroke Pines, Florida; the City of Austin, Texas; and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission represent recent issuing bodies across the Southeast, Southwest, and South-Central regions. Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners issued an IFB (PE77023NONST2027000000788) due October 29, 2026, for file servers and peripheral equipment including hard drives as part of a four-year blanket contract beginning January 1, 2027, requiring HP reseller status and pricing tied to Georgia state contract discounts. The City of Austin Purchasing Office requested quotations (IFQ8700JXS1037) due June 30, 2026, for eight Western Digital 26TB WD Red Pro NAS drives specified for the Austin Police Department's Digital Forensics Unit. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission issued an IFB (HHS0017083V3) due May 7, 2026, for Hewlett Packard Enterprise Non-Stop Itanium Self-Storage Disk Drives (400 GB capacity, SAS 12Gb/s) supporting Claims Engines in Austin and Dallas, with an anticipated contract value of $80,000 annually and optional one-year extension. The City of Pembroke Pines issued an IFB (TS2604) due May 19, 2026, for Cisco network infrastructure hardware including associated components, with estimated project value of $300,000 and local vendor preferences of 5 percent for Pembroke Pines vendors and 2.5 percent for Broward County vendors.