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20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

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Features:

20TB Storage Capacity
USB 3.0 Interface
AC Powered
Rescue Data Recovery Services
Includes USB 3.0 Cable
Preformatted exFAT
Windows and Mac Compatible

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This comes out to just $12/TB
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20TB Storage Capacity
USB 3.0 Interface
AC Powered
Rescue Data Recovery Services
Includes USB 3.0 Cable
Preformatted exFAT
Windows and Mac Compatible

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Written by citan359 | Staff

This comes out to just $12/TB
Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Model: Seagate Expansion 20TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0, with Rescue Data Recovery Services (STKP20000400)

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FrozenBeer

while I have done my fair share of research in the last couple of years, I still haven't decided if it's wise to use one of these giant hard drives as a backup for my secondary backups of my old family photos, videos and other junk. (currently around 15TB of stuff... they are currently on the original media, two 10TB hard drives, on the cloud(both Google Drive and iCloud), as well as data Blu-ray discs.

My thinking is that I can NEVER have enough back-ups.(of back-ups of back-ups) because any one of them can and probably will fail several years down the road?

When big SSDs4TB or 8GB+ are cheap enough, I may also look into getting some of those as another form of back up?

Sound paranoid... well... yes... becuase while I was backing up stuff, two of my back-up drives died within a day of each other, (one WD and one Seagate) and I lost all of my converted film and photos between 1980 and 1985.

That's why everythying that I have currently has at least 3 different forms of back-ups on different medias or the cloud, at a minimum, and stored at different locations(my house or with my other family members)

dee-khan

By way of comparison of recent sales on external 20 TB drives, the WD Easystore was $250 on Black Friday and the WD Elements was $266 on Prime Day in the Fall.

TenderRiver160

I just bought four of these today and so far I've shucked one. It's branded as a Baracuda and uses HAMR.

Update: All four drives are the same.

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can use as internal? need to cover 3rd pin?

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Quote from purebishop

Sounds like you haven't actually researched HDDs in the past 10+ years. We all make dumb comments sometimes.

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By way of comparison of recent sales on external 20 TB drives, the WD Easystore was $250 on Black Friday and the WD Elements was $266 on Prime Day in the Fall.

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Quote from FrozenBeer

while I have done my fair share of research in the last couple of years, I still haven't decided if it's wise to use one of these giant hard drives as a backup for my secondary backups of my old family photos, videos and other junk. (currently around 15TB of stuff... they are currently on the original media, two 10TB hard drives, on the cloud(both Google Drive and iCloud), as well as data Blu-ray discs. My thinking is that I can NEVER have enough back-ups.(of back-ups of back-ups) because any one of them can and probably will fail several years down the road? Smilie

When big SSDs4TB or 8GB+ are cheap enough, I may also look into getting some of those as another form of back up? Sound paranoid... well... yes... becuase while I was backing up stuff, two of my back-up drives died within a day of each other, (one WD and one Seagate) and I lost all of my converted film and photos between 1980 and 1985. Frown

My backups go to a NAS, running RAID 10. With this, 2 drives can fail and I won't loose any data. Even with this, I still do backups to external drives that get stored elsewhere. You will probably be better suited going with a NAS.

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Why do people say not to buy segate? Need to setup a home NAS and NVR.

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Quote from dee-khan

By way of comparison of recent sales on external 20 TB drives, the WD Easystore was $250 on Black Friday and the WD Elements was $266 on Prime Day in the Fall.

Is this comparable from a performance perspective as well? I've had some other older Seagate's that were much slower than WD in the past.

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Has anyone purchased one of these very recently and shucked it? Any idea what drive is inside?

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Quote from misterv1

Why do people say not to buy segate? Need to setup a home NAS and NVR.

Boomer meme from 2001 when seagate made horrible deskstar (deathstar) drives that failed at an abnormally high rate.

Today they make the most reliable drives.

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Quote from weigle2

You are correct. But only if the 2 drives failed are from different pair. If they are from the same mirrored pair you still lost your whole array

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Kinda wanna buy to replace my loud ass 20tb WD that's been like that for about 3 years (since the beginning). I've bought a crap ton of high capacity WD hdd and never had one this annoyingly loud.

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Quote from RazorConcepts

Boomer meme from 2001 when seagate made horrible deskstar (deathstar) drives that failed at an abnormally high rate.

Today they make the most reliable drives.

Lol we just gonna skip Gen x.. Hm k

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Quote from RazorConcepts

Boomer meme from 2001 when seagate made horrible deskstar (deathstar) drives that failed at an abnormally high rate.

Today they make the most reliable drives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar

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Quote from Adelley

Lol we just gonna skip Gen x.. Hm k

Or you could look at reports of people actually using them and see that they are still pretty much garbage, even after all this time: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/ba...-for-2023/
fwiw I had every Seagate ~1tb drive fail. That is not deskstar boomer days. In the boomer days, Western Digital was garbage (caviar drives IIRC).

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