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26TB Seagate External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive

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Best Buy has 26TB Seagate External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive with Rescue Data Recovery Services (STKP26000400) on sale for $299.99. Shipping is free.

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Best Buy has 26TB Seagate External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive with Rescue Data Recovery Services (STKP26000400) on sale for $299.99. Shipping is free.

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Adam2004
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These (26GB) are EXOS Enterprise drives not the crappy non-Pro Barracudas like the 20-24TB models with only 1-year warranty. Seagate doesn't make a 26TB Barracuda.
RikB
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I ordered one, says it'll arrive Thursday. I'll update this post with what I find inside.

Edit: ST26000DM000 mfg date 02/2025. Seagate website indicates the serial # on the drive is a Barracuda w/ 1yr warranty. Oh well, looks like the days of discount exos are gone, and I'll be returning this one.
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wiffleMar 17, 2025 08:41 PM
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Quote from jphilippon :
You can't say this with any certainty, because when the 24 deal came around "Seagate didn't make 24TB barracudas" either.
Can't you tell by the box?
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Quote from maxpopcorn :
Nobody thought there was 24TB barracuda prior to Seagate updating there tech sheets recently and people started reporting after running crystal info and/or shucking so I think same situation here.
Any hard evidence ie actual shucked label hd pic other than speculations?

I wasted two trips to Bestbuy to return barracudas.
Interesting. I bought the same 24TB drives from B&H Photo and they were Exos X24 24TB. They only have a one year warranty but otherwise they run well.
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al3xanderMar 17, 2025 08:43 PM
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Man... if only this was a WD My Book, I'd probably buy 4.
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Quote from jphilippon :
You can't say this with any certainty, because when the 24 deal came around "Seagate didn't make 24TB barracudas" either.
While that is true, seagate did just update their website at the end of february with model info on the new drives and they state that barracudas are now "available in up to 24tb". It would be unusual for them to suddenly expand that only a couple weeks later.

https://www.seagate.com/content/d...-en_US.pdf
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nitemareMar 17, 2025 08:50 PM
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Quote from al3xander :
Man... if only this was a WD My Book, I'd probably buy 4.

this.. I stopped trusting Seagate a long time ago..
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DastardlyAnomieMar 17, 2025 08:52 PM
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Oh no I want it
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Why are we arguing about shucking and what's inside? Why not use it as-is, connected to RPi5/PC? In a practical application, if you're storing a media (say, video file), it doesn't matter how it's connected to your NAS, speedwise, right? Trying to understand the itch to shuck
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Quote from cnmuranjan :
Why are we arguing about shucking and what's inside? Why not use it as-is, connected to RPi5/PC? In a practical application, if you're storing a media (say, video file), it doesn't matter how it's connected to your NAS, speedwise, right? Trying to understand the itch to shuck
Because most of us have NAS already that we put drives in. Using it as is with a Pi is not what majority of people are going to do. Either way you use it we want the best drive we can get.
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Quote from wiffle :
Can't you tell by the box?
Redditors determined (through crowdsourced info) that if the manufacturing date was in 2025 they would have Barracudas inside (for the 24tbs), but it doesn't explicitly state what's inside on the box.
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dirtbag88Mar 17, 2025 09:13 PM
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Quote from cnmuranjan :
Why are we arguing about shucking and what's inside? Why not use it as-is, connected to RPi5/PC? In a practical application, if you're storing a media (say, video file), it doesn't matter how it's connected to your NAS, speedwise, right? Trying to understand the itch to shuck
It's pretty clear that your use case isn't the same as our use case
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w0k7sm2-sfuMar 17, 2025 09:27 PM
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Someone convince me on why I need this. I don't nedd but I feel like I should need it
If they are not SMR that could screw up writes. I'd say everybody need one.
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chyeeaaMar 17, 2025 09:30 PM
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If they are not SMR that could screw up writes. I'd say everybody need one.
Sold !
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vns1Mar 17, 2025 09:30 PM
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Quote from Adam2004 :
These (26GB) are EXOS Enterprise drives not the crappy non-Pro Barracudas like the 20-24TB models with only 1-year warranty. Seagate doesn't make a 26TB Barracuda.
And yet it does come with a 1yr warranty (although other models come with 3yr)
Full specs at: https://www.seagate.com/content/d...-en_US.pdf
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Quote from cnmuranjan :
Why are we arguing about shucking and what's inside? Why not use it as-is, connected to RPi5/PC? In a practical application, if you're storing a media (say, video file), it doesn't matter how it's connected to your NAS, speedwise, right? Trying to understand the itch to shuck
If these are exos, it's significantly cheaper to shuck them over buying new when filling a NAS. You get a much shorter warranty this way, but a 26tb exos is $500+ for a brand new bare drive which really adds up when you're buying 4+ drives.

From my experience, drives tend to fail within the first few months or end up lasting past the warranty period, so I'm okay with the gamble.

Edit to add: also running multiple drives in a raid array with a NAS that has a 10gb NIC will be faster than a single drive via usb. Most shucking are not using just a single drive or JBOD setup.
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apbudhaMar 17, 2025 09:34 PM
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Quote from hw1234 :
Yes but there's a good chance these are unannounced Baracuda's given what happened with the 20TB and 24TB expansions.
I don't see existing disk enclosures (not sure about nas) saying they support greater than 20gb..

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