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expiredcmdauria posted Feb 09, 2025 12:20 PM
expiredcmdauria posted Feb 09, 2025 12:20 PM

20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

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$230

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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.

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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.

Thanks to community members cmdauria and petem9110 for sharing this deal.

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Written by qwikwit | Staff
No Longer Available:
  • B&H Photo Video has 20TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (SEKP20000400) on sale for $229.99Shipping is free.

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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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William.LEJA
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In case it helps anyone - I bought 3 of these last month from Best Buy and put them in a TrueNAS Scale server I have after error checking them. Transferred 18 terabytes onto a RAID-Z1 array and no issues reading and writing at normal speeds.

No clue if the drives are CMR, SMR or whatever. They work for me. I keep redundant backups. I wouldn't trust these or any drives without at least one other backup of the data somewhere. All drives fail sooner or later.
spriteuser
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Havnt seen a WD on sale for a long time

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Feb 09, 2025 06:43 PM
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PowerBuyerFeb 09, 2025 06:43 PM
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Quote from spriteuser :
Havnt seen a WD on sale for a long time
True that
Feb 09, 2025 06:45 PM
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longdiddyFeb 09, 2025 06:45 PM
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What's the consensus for these for a 5 Bay Synology NAS?
Feb 09, 2025 06:53 PM
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OmizzleFeb 09, 2025 06:53 PM
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This price comes every few weeks at this point. Picked one up last time it dropped. Good deal.
Feb 09, 2025 06:59 PM
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xlerateFeb 09, 2025 06:59 PM
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Shuckable? 🤔
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Feb 09, 2025 07:17 PM
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cmdauria
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Feb 09, 2025 07:17 PM
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Quote from xlerate :
Shuckable? 🤔
Yes. Mine is already in machine having a ton of data being transferred to it.
Feb 09, 2025 07:27 PM
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lattiboyFeb 09, 2025 07:27 PM
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Modern 3.5" drive performance has been basically static for 5-10 years now. Capacity has increased, but drives I purchased in 2017 still keep up fine with these new 16-24TB drives.

SMR drives should be avoided if possible, but I have 2x 8TB Seagate SMRs that have been working great in a QNAP NAS for many, many years.

The "puritanical SD commenter effect" is always in full swing with any HD thread.

Buy the most disk space you can afford, and have redundancy locally and online for super critical data. 20TB is an absolutely absurd amount of space. I have 2000+ 1080p and 4k movies and hundreds of seasons of TV shows and hardly crack 10TB.

Relatedly, X265 and AV1 10-bit encoding done well is essentially magic. I have 7GB 4k HDR rips that are so close to the 40-60GB remux stuff I will eventually be converting everything once I see which codec will be more supported.

I'm watching on a 110-inch screen with a 4k laser projector and have to really obsess over small differences in especially dark scenes to notice.
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Feb 09, 2025 07:30 PM
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Adam2004Feb 09, 2025 07:30 PM
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Quote from savagepagan :
If only if it were a Western Digital drive. I avoid Seagate. It's a good price anyway.
WD has way more failures than Seagate. YMMV.
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Feb 09, 2025 08:13 PM
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korpo53Feb 09, 2025 08:13 PM
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Quote from FrozenBeer :
not even close....

I save almost every YouTube video that I watch. Or more accurately, I always download and save the YouTube videos that I want to watch. I only watch them after they've downloaded to my hard drive using JD2. The files are even bigger because I choose 2160p setting whenever possible in JD2. Sometimes they are 1TB to 2TB per week. (dont' necessarily watch them all, of course)
I use an app called ytdlp-sub (in a Linux container) and it's great. You just configure channels that you want to watch regularly and it acts like a DVR. You can tell it keep a certain number of episodes, or going back however many months, or just keep them forever. It puts metadata in the files and such so that Plex picks them up and you can watch them like TV. It's really slick.
Quote from DmitriyM7540 :
Why do you download youtube videos before watching them?
I do it because the above-mentioned app can remove ads, both YouTube ads but also sponsors within the video. It also doesn't burn bandwidth if I want to watch a video again later for whatever reason.
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paliknight
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Feb 09, 2025 08:32 PM
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Quote from William.LEJA :
In case it helps anyone - I bought 3 of these last month from Best Buy and put them in a TrueNAS Scale server I have after error checking them. Transferred 18 terabytes onto a RAID-Z1 array and no issues reading and writing at normal speeds.

No clue if the drives are CMR, SMR or whatever. They work for me. I keep redundant backups. I wouldn't trust these or any drives without at least one other backup of the data somewhere. All drives fail sooner or later.
Were they exos or barracudas
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FrozenBeerFeb 09, 2025 09:00 PM
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Do you keep in touch with your exs after marriage also?
strange... you are not the first person to ask me that question. so I'm just going to copy and paste the answer that I gave about a year ago

while my ex-girlfriend/fiancee was still married to someone else, she did fly 2500 miles and visited me at my new house for about 2 months. my girlfriend at the time was in Europe on an extended business assignment. of course, we didn't do anything beyond what two college kids would do by themselves in a single house with nobody else around. we browsed Slickdeals and looked for hard drive deals. She left the day before my girlfriend returned from Europe.
Last edited by FrozenBeer February 9, 2025 at 02:03 PM.
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Feb 09, 2025 09:47 PM
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lattiboyFeb 09, 2025 09:47 PM
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Quote from paliknight :
Were they exos or barracudas
They're branded Barracudas, but seem to operate identically to Exos. Somebody did some digging and they appear to be re-binned drives that couldn't do 28-32TBs. Makes sense they'd use them as consumer externals. Pretty positive they aren't SMR as I ran a small file torture test and they didn't flatline like SMRs do
Feb 09, 2025 09:52 PM
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khauser86Feb 09, 2025 09:52 PM
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How does the rescue data recovery service work?
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Feb 09, 2025 09:52 PM
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khauser86Feb 09, 2025 09:52 PM
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Also, is there a way to make sure the drive stays mounted when putting Mac to sleep?
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CTRFK8
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Feb 09, 2025 10:34 PM
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Quote from DmitriyM7540 :
Why do you download youtube videos before watching them?
maybe he has a bunker and wants to enjoy youtube before the worlds ends?
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Feb 09, 2025 10:38 PM
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Feb 09, 2025 10:38 PM
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Quote from longdiddy :
What's the consensus for these for a 5 Bay Synology NAS?
they work fine.

once you get to the 12 bays you will have issues but they can be ignored . Synology loves their own branded hdds with firmware.


do synology SHR
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