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20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

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Best Buy has 20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (STKP20000400) on sale for $229.99. Shipping is free.

Alternatively, B&H Photo Video has 20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (SEKP20000400) on sale for $229.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member Minexus for finding this deal.

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  • About this Deal:
    • This matches the previous +126 Frontpage Deal and is roughly ~$11.50/TB.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and give the WIKI and forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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Best Buy has 20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (STKP20000400) on sale for $229.99. Shipping is free.

Alternatively, B&H Photo Video has 20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (SEKP20000400) on sale for $229.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member Minexus for finding this deal.

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Written by Corwin | Staff
  • About this Deal:
    • This matches the previous +126 Frontpage Deal and is roughly ~$11.50/TB.
    • Please see the original post for additional details and give the WIKI and 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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dealseeker50
These are not shitty shingle SMR drives. SMR write speed is less than 80 MB/s. People are reporting 200 MB/s for these seagate drives.
hinchy
I bought two last time this was on sale and shucked them into my nas. I ran a stress test and secure wiped them followed by a extended smart test, both ran it fine without issues. Temps were good for me, lower than my wd reds
WiseSeagull238
That's literally EVERY thread on SD. Most of the content is just two factions trying to prove the other is wrong. If you don't believe me, head on over to the recent lululemon jogger thread, same thing, different product.

Anyway, that's why using a strong sense of filtration and due diligence helps with these comments. Once in a while you get a good nugget of info/wisdom which makes it worth the effort if you actually need said item.

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I bought 5 from the last deal, no regrets. Sequential transfer rates are about 180-230MB/s which you can't really beat for non SSD. I chose not to open any of them to keep the warranty for now. I may after a year or so decide to crack them open and install internally.

I'm not sure why there is such a heavy debate about HAMR, SMR, CMR. I don't know what this is - no one seems to for sure but I do know that the user experience is equally as good as my other 15 Easystore drives. I am finding noise and heat levels to be on par.
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I bought two last time this was on sale and shucked them into my nas. I ran a stress test and secure wiped them followed by a extended smart test, both ran it fine without issues. Temps were good for me, lower than my wd reds
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Any idea why this is rated 3.0 stars but the 14TB is 4.4 stars?

I need more storage for my Plex server (mini PC with portable hard drives) but don't necessarily need 20TB yet.... But do need to get more storage in the next couple weeks
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Quote from galewskj :
My recollection is that these drives were mostly trashed in the previous threads. Shingle Magnetic Recording + Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording.
These are not shitty shingle SMR drives. SMR write speed is less than 80 MB/s. People are reporting 200 MB/s for these seagate drives.
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I bought one from the last deal and it died 3 weeks later. Now I have to deal with a defective drive with no easy way to wipe my data before sending back for a refund. Save yourselves a headache.
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Quote from hinchy :
I bought two last time this was on sale and shucked them into my nas. I ran a stress test and secure wiped them followed by a extended smart test, both ran it fine without issues. Temps were good for me, lower than my wd reds
What seagate drives were they? Barracuda? Ironwolf?

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Bought one from the last deal.

It's noisy.
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Quote from kluong2 :
What seagate drives were they? Barracuda? Ironwolf?
Label says Barracuda
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Quote from axemexa :
Bought one from the last deal.It's noisy.
It's not bad for me. I have Wd Red Plus and Wd Red Pro's. They're louder than the Plus's but quieter than the Pros, at least in my Nas.
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Why is it whenever a Seagate deal is posted there's basically two types of comments? That the drives are fine with good temps, speeds, and reliability and that Seagate is the literal devil and will sell you a brick (not a bricked drivean actual brick) and then burn your house down when you try to ask for a new one.
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Quote from AlphaDag13 :
Why is it whenever a Seagate deal is posted there's basically two types of comments? That the drives are fine with good temps, speeds, and reliability and that Seagate is the literal devil and will sell you a brick (not a bricked drivean actual brick) and then burn your house down when you try to ask for a new one.
That's literally EVERY thread on SD. Most of the content is just two factions trying to prove the other is wrong. If you don't believe me, head on over to the recent lululemon jogger thread, same thing, different product.

Anyway, that's why using a strong sense of filtration and due diligence helps with these comments. Once in a while you get a good nugget of info/wisdom which makes it worth the effort if you actually need said item.
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Quote from Lilyly :
what you need is a reliablewith such reliable reputation brandname. seagate has never had a good reputation since the last worst ratings decades ago.

Really? Because if they didn't have a good reputation, or had abnormally high failure rates, then they would go out of business.

Seagate relies upon enterprise sales... not SDers and general consumers looking for external hard drives at Amazon/BB/Costco/etc.

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