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26TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

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$250

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BH Photo Video has 26TB Seagate External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive (STKP26000400) on sale for $249.99 (pricreflected when added to cart). Shipping is free.

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BH Photo Video has 26TB Seagate External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive (STKP26000400) on sale for $249.99 (pricreflected when added to cart). Shipping is free.

Thanks to Deal Editor iconian for sharing this deal.

Note: Must add to cart for the sale price.

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  • This offer is $50 lower than a Frontpage Deal from March; max of $100 Off/discount
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  • Please see the original post for additional details & give the forum comments a read for helpful discussion.

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jbrin90
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Barracuda drive inside, not EXOS
Pulvarize63
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Good deal, under $10 per TB. I was also able to use Discover offer for $20 back on GPay transaction over $200 with virtual number since BHPhotovideo allows Google pay transactions from chrome.
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The 3-2-1 backup rule is a data protection strategy that involves creating three copies of your data, storing them on two different types of media, and keeping one copy offsite. This approach provides redundancy and helps safeguard against various data loss scenarios like hardware failure, accidental deletion, or natural disasters.

3 Copies: Maintain three copies of your data: the original and two backups.

2 Different Media: Store these copies on two different types of storage media, such as hard drives, SSDs, or cloud storage. This helps mitigate the risk of a single point of failure affecting all copies.

1 Copy Offsite: Keep one of the backup copies in a separate physical or cloud location, away from your primary storage. This ensures data availability even if your primary location is affected by a disaster or other incident.

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Quote from Ride_The_Sky :
I agree, but only if synology wasn't too darn expensive.. At this price, if you have a good internet connection, you can easily get 2 of these and couple that with cloud storage for important documents (after encrypting them) you all should be set, but honestly I wish they had like 10TB drives for $100 each. I'd get 4 of them, 2 sync each other on site, 2 off site.
This is a very good deal for the amount of space you are getting, really insane to think we can get this much space for less than $10/TB. No wonder tech companies can store zettabytes of data and not even care about space, but somehow charge $5/TB per month.
use an old PC and buy an unraid license. more functionality, better performance, and cheaper than wasting money on synology
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Quote from TarleyT :
This may be obvious, but if you want to follow this advice do not buy two of the same identical products at the same time to mirror your data. If there is a manufacturing issue with the internal HDD you'll likely lose both at a similar time scale.

Bro! This is very important information, thanks for your input!
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Quote from Marthisdil :
use an old PC and buy an unraid license. more functionality, better performance, and cheaper than wasting money on synology
Is it easy to manage. My main purpose with synology was to move all my pictures there and use their face and object detection.
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Quote from FredB81 :
The real question is, is it actually a barracuda as in from a different line or is it an exos with a barracuda label slapped on it. I remember it was either the 22 or 24 had a barracuda label on it but when looking up the serial number of the drive itself it came back as exos

The 24tb I just got is barracuda thru and thru.
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someone0
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Quote from pants_b :
goharddrive has their 20tb MDD (store brand with 5 year warranty) for $200 refurbished. You don't know what you're going to get there, but if you plan on building an array and running each drive through a full test cycle you get cheaper tb/$ and a longer warranty. The external 26tb however is perfect for a minipc home server or for your home laptop docking station. Just make sure you follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy. If you're planning to shuck, then I'd only go for this if you really need the storage density and plan to upgrade after 3 years.
The off-brand like these, not only do they have specialize firmware. They are likely to have less spare sector and also because of custom firmware, the drive serial number may not be unique also. I think I have seen a screenshot of something like that. This may or may not affect you, depend on your usage and the OS using it. If using multiple of such drives (NAS/DAS usage) in an OS where the OS identify drives based on their unique serial number then this could create a hugh problem as such OS would be confuse as to no drive is unique.
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Probably CrystalDiskInfo can read it
Yub, done that before.
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Cart limit is 4. How can I buy more than 4?
Is the Payboo card worth it? Says they will refund the tax so anywhere from 4-10% depending on your state.

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Quote from robotom :
There's two separate offers, one is Google Pay and the other is Virtual Card Number.
I cannot see Gpay option in my laptop Chrome browser , i only see paypal or creditcard. I have Discover Gpay 20$ off deal .
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Quote from arooni :
Cool great timing, just had a Costco purchased 5TB Seagate drive USB drive fail today. I actually have been having trouble with the other one I use as Time Machine so I'm going to return both ($100 each) and consider this a 26TB drive for $73 after tax. Not bad!

If my samsung promo credit hits from that botched q990d sound bar cancelled order and raising a stink with the BBB/FTC/State AG/etc, I should have enough for a 4TB 990 Pro NVME drive for about $10.

30 TB of storage for $83 after tax. LET'S GO!

I hate how frugal B&H Photo are, no cashback sites work. OH WELLS.

If you have the Citi Rewards+ card it adds two years of warranty to your purchase at no cost. One of the few cards that still offers +2 years of warranty coverage.

Do you always post your personal life story details to SlickDeals? Jfc dude.
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Quote from srp6888 :
I cannot see Gpay option in my laptop Chrome browser , i only see paypal or creditcard. I have Discover Gpay 20$ off deal .

Do you have a discover credit card or debit card. I have only the debit card and wonder if this exists for me.
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lots of ways to use these hugh hard drives. And some others have explained how they use them. And over time you might switch from one way to another way. So you might be interested in my current way, and that is ok, because in the past I used these in NAS, PC's, DAS, and for different purposes.

I say all this because of the "bombers" in these threads are always looking for ways to give "thumbs down" for any post they don't agree with 100 percent. Slickdeals in the past NEVER had thumbs up and thumbs down for individual posts , so we all were EQUAL, and we just gave our experience. With the "bombers" that really are trying to ruin Slckdeals (I have told them to change their policy on this, but I guess they like the "bombers".


So my current way is just to plug this drive in when I am backing up stuff or transferring stuff to SSD/nvme/Thumb drive/microSD card/smartphone. Then turn the drive off and unplug it. Doing this will put very few hours on drive. So should last 10-20 years. Many of us have advanced to much faster methods of accessing our data.

DATA Centers and NAS's /DAS's might be turned on 24/7, which in the past I did use. Also, I do put copies of my stuff on other media, so I don't get too upset if one backup "stops working". Peace of Mind. I do use my DAS/NAS/portable 5TB portables the same way I use the drive in this thread... turn on for a few minutes and then turn off.
Last edited by AquaGalley8616 June 18, 2025 at 09:05 AM.
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Glad I never ordered this drive directly from Seagate since they currently have it on sale for $290: Expansion Desktop Hard Drive 26TB [seagate.com]; The OP is more my alley.
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Do you always post your personal life story details to SlickDeals? Jfc dude.

Might be time to change your poopy diaper.
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1 year limited warranty 👎

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Quote from Marthisdil :
use an old PC and buy an unraid license. more functionality, better performance, and cheaper than wasting money on synology
I have four of these in two mirror VDEVs for around 50 TB total space. Blows away my AMD Zen based Synology.

Test results at the link below.
I did shuck the drives.

https://imgur.com/a/5QuSTnb

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