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24TB Seagate Expansion External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive

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$270

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Seagate has 24TB Seagate Expansion External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive (STKP24000400) on sale for $269.99. Shipping is free.

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About this product:
  • 24TB Storage Capacity
  • External Desktop Drive
  • USB 3.0 Interface
  • USB-C (USB 3.0 Gen 1)
  • Rescue Data Recovery Services
  • PC/Mac Compatible

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Seagate has 24TB Seagate Expansion External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive (STKP24000400) on sale for $269.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to Community Member WittyShoe8039 for sharing this deal.

About this product:
  • 24TB Storage Capacity
  • External Desktop Drive
  • USB 3.0 Interface
  • USB-C (USB 3.0 Gen 1)
  • Rescue Data Recovery Services
  • PC/Mac Compatible

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Written by ValPal2011 | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • This price is $10 less than the previous FP deal.
  • About this store:
    • Details of Seagate's return policy (here)

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By the way, if you don't mind PayPal credits/cash back, there's a instacart offer of 30% off.

Must use instacart and activate the offer on PayPal.

The 24TB on sale via Best Buy for 285.98 [instacart.com], which comes about 300.97 with service fee, pre-tax.

With the PayPal instacart discount it goes to 210.68 or about $8.78 per TB
I was already web researching this because some 3rd party Amazon seller (shipped by Amazon) had it for $10 more. Glad I didn't bite on the Amazon deal.

From what I gathered, these are Barracuda HAMR drives. HAMR drives are not suitable for use in large arrays - something about the laser tech not liking the vibrations of being with a bunch of drives. These particular drives are also not "rated" for 24/7/365 use and only have 2 year warranties. They're probably fine for backup or shucking for a desktop, but maybe not for shucking to toss into your multi-drive NAS box.
According to crystaldiskinfo, my recently purchased 24TB is a barracuda

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Victor-Wei-YinC
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This looks like the lowest $ per TB recently. Any red flags?
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Whats inside?
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My guess is baracudas, although i bought some from BB months ago and both were exos. Since that deal, i've read they've switched to being baracudas so some of us got luck with the exos drives.
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Quote from Victor-Wei-YinC :
This looks like the lowest $ per TB recently. Any red flags?
I just did some research and from what I can tell, this is a good quality drive. I haven't seem many people discussing any QA issues.
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Quote from ZaghloulS :
Whats inside?
According to crystaldiskinfo, my recently purchased 24TB is a barracuda
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Quote from ducksoup18 :
My guess is baracudas, although i bought some from BB months ago and both were exos. Since that deal, i've read they've switched to being baracudas so some of us got luck with the exos drives.
Almost certainly Barracudas [seagate.com], especially considering their large size. It seems that the smaller 14TB–18TB models have a decent chance of being Exos—at least based on what I've heard online and the limited evidence available to make a reasonable inference.

If you end up with a Barracuda and lose the Seagate lottery, I wouldn't recommend shucking it—given its paltry one-year warranty and low MTBF rating [seagate.com]. However, these large external drives are decent for storing relatively worthless and ubiquitous video media, such as easily replaceable TV shows and anime.

I have the 20TB version and used it for about four months now. It has performed superbly for my needs—primarily as an affordable way to stream and store video media for my Plex server. Read/write speeds average around 250MB/s, and the drive powers down quickly and smoothly when not in use. Initially, the external drive was quite noisy when it was empty during initialization/startup. However, now that it's full, it's as noisy as any other external drive I've used.
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Quote from ZaghloulS :
Whats inside?
I was already web researching this because some 3rd party Amazon seller (shipped by Amazon) had it for $10 more. Glad I didn't bite on the Amazon deal.

From what I gathered, these are Barracuda HAMR drives. HAMR drives are not suitable for use in large arrays - something about the laser tech not liking the vibrations of being with a bunch of drives. These particular drives are also not "rated" for 24/7/365 use and only have 2 year warranties. They're probably fine for backup or shucking for a desktop, but maybe not for shucking to toss into your multi-drive NAS box.
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Quote from zippyzap :
These particular drives are also not "rated" for 24/7/365 use and only have 2 year warranties. They're probably fine for backup or shucking for a desktop, but maybe not for shucking to toss into your multi-drive NAS box.
The loose Barracudas come with a two-year warranty [seagate.com], while the external Expansion type has only one year [seagate.com].

However, in the Asia-Pacific region, the warranty is three years, and in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, it is two years. This bodes well and could suggest that Seagate is merely taking advantage of the USA's weak consumer rights and protections, rather than indicating poor build quality. The 20TB external seems relatively well-built and trustworthy. I've used it extensively for four months now, and in my opinion, it's pretty decent.
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Quote from zippyzap :
I was already web researching this because some 3rd party Amazon seller (shipped by Amazon) had it for $10 more. Glad I didn't bite on the Amazon deal.

From what I gathered, these are Barracuda HAMR drives. HAMR drives are not suitable for use in large arrays - something about the laser tech not liking the vibrations of being with a bunch of drives. These particular drives are also not "rated" for 24/7/365 use and only have 2 year warranties. They're probably fine for backup or shucking for a desktop, but maybe not for shucking to toss into your multi-drive NAS box.
Yes, these are not Exos but Barracuda drives. I bought these on the previous SD, shucked them anyway and -so far- no issues in my TrueNAS setup. Had I known then that these were 'Cudas I would not have purchased them.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...tb_amazon/

this person shucked a 22TB drive and testing shows it's similar to an exos even though it's labeled barracuda. apparently it doesn't match up with any official barracuda model #s

i also got a recent 22TB deal just to try it out with unifi protect and it's been working fine for a few days so far
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Most of the 18s that people have purchased recently were all Exos.
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Yeah few days ago I saw this deal but price was 249.99 from Newegg n Walmart at least with this deal you get two year warranty no need shuck and vold warranty
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Are these 5400 or 7200 rpm ? I am sensitive to noise and prefer the 5400.
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Quote from Victor-Wei-YinC :
This looks like the lowest $ per TB recently. Any red flags?
The lowest $ per TB I've seen are the 22TB for $239+10% coupon. It comes about 3-4 weeks.
It goes to $9.82/TB.

I think as backup/secondary backup drive, they're great.
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