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26TB Seagate Expansion Desktop USB 3.0 External Hard Drive

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Newegg has 26TB Seagate External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive (STKP26000400) on sale for $259.99. Shipping is free.

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About this product:
  • Easy-to-use desktop hard drive—simply plug in the power adapter and USB cable
  • USB 3.0 allows fast file transfers for efficient data management
  • Drag-and-drop file saving right out of the box
  • Automatic recognition of Windows and Mac computers for simple setup (Reformatting required for use with Time Machine)
  • Enjoy peace of mind with the included limited warranty and Rescue Data Recovery Services

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Newegg has 26TB Seagate External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive (STKP26000400) on sale for $259.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to staff member DesertGardener for finding this deal.

About this product:
  • Easy-to-use desktop hard drive—simply plug in the power adapter and USB cable
  • USB 3.0 allows fast file transfers for efficient data management
  • Drag-and-drop file saving right out of the box
  • Automatic recognition of Windows and Mac computers for simple setup (Reformatting required for use with Time Machine)
  • Enjoy peace of mind with the included limited warranty and Rescue Data Recovery Services

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Written by megakimcheelove | Staff
  • Please see the original post for additional details and/or view the Wiki and forum comments for further helpful discussion if available.

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Anticrawl
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Their enterprise drives have a negligible difference in failure rate after 5 years vs HGST/Western Digital. Basically nothing. A majority of drives we have in my datacenter (manage/design/maintain for a large organization) in our 1.4PB (petabyte) of storage that isn't solid state is Seagate. I've replaced maybe 7 drives in 5 years at our datacenter: 3 were Toshiba at least, and the rest were likely Seagate. Typically 4, 6, and 8TB capacity. It really doesn't matter. If your goal is protecting data I would highly recommend against buying this drive unless you are buying 2 or 3 of them. You should be able to lose at least 1/3rd of your drives without losing any data for your primary storage but ideally 1/2 of them. So more smaller drives in an array or pool is the way to go. My home storage cluster (maintained by my wife) is primarily 4-16TB drives in an unRAID storage pool with 220TB of usable storage. We can only lose 1/3rd of our drives before data loss but we have an off-site on the other side of the world in my mother-in-law's condo for our critical data at about 80TB of usable space but it can lose 2/3rds of its drives. All synchronized up to the minute over tailscale. We also host our own "cloud" sync service like "OneDrive" for keeping the photos and documents on our phones backed live (and because it is a bitch offloading photos from modern phones via USB).

Up until Linus ruined everyone's good time by telling every jerkoff about serverpartdeals (I will never forgive him for this) it has gotten much more expensive to have such a beefy system but we primarily still buy refurb drives. We lose about 1 drive a year at home. We use a mix of anything that is up-to-spec including Seagate at home. There is a measurable brand difference in quality for Enterprise but is the percentage point increase in possible failure worth getting a drive for 40% cheaper than the competition? Backing up data is a numbers game so absolutely not but your call. Your money - your data.

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I bought this same one, 26TB expansion at best buy from the last deal recently and seatools showed it is a barracuda.

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lgrullonbbYesterday 01:17 PM
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any deals on 28TB or 30TB?
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Limit 5 per customer.
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Anyone uses this as part of their 3-2-1 backup plan? 2 media, one this, the other NAS?
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Quote from cheakrisna :
Anyone uses this as part of their 3-2-1 backup plan? 2 media, one this, the other NAS?
Sure, but obviously for it to really be 3-2-1 you need one of those offsite.
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CMR or SMR?
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sprousaYesterday 04:37 PM
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Quote from shieldspc :
cmr or smr?
Typically HAMR
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Exos or barcuada?

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I bought this same one, 26TB expansion at best buy from the last deal recently and seatools showed it is a barracuda.
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cheung.jefferyYesterday 08:17 PM
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Is this a solid deal?
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Quote from cheung.jeffery :
Is this a solid deal?
It's been $250 a bunch of times before, and even cheaper with a 10% discount but Seagate blocked the discount so $250 might be the best we get this year.. Maybe something cheaper tomorrow durung prime day or BF next month
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cheung.jefferyYesterday 08:24 PM
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Quote from gen2 :
It's been $250 a bunch of times before, and even cheaper with a 10% discount but Seagate blocked the discount so $250 might be the best we get this year.. Maybe something cheaper tomorrow durung prime day or BF next month
ahh thanks for letting me know. I ended up buying it and we will see how primeday is.
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Quote from ShieldsPC :
CMR or SMR?
CMR

Quote from sprousa :
Typically HAMR
It is guaranteed to be a HAMR drive, as 24TB is the largest non-HAMR CMR drive Seagate makes. BTW, LMR/PMR/HAMR is totally separate from CMR/SMR. Every drive will be a combination of those aspects.

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Exos or barcuada?
Barracuda.
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BAnder7192Yesterday 11:33 PM
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Buy Seagate once and learn your lesson once!
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Buy Seagate once and learn your lesson once!
Their enterprise drives have a negligible difference in failure rate after 5 years vs HGST/Western Digital. Basically nothing. A majority of drives we have in my datacenter (manage/design/maintain for a large organization) in our 1.4PB (petabyte) of storage that isn't solid state is Seagate. I've replaced maybe 7 drives in 5 years at our datacenter: 3 were Toshiba at least, and the rest were likely Seagate. Typically 4, 6, and 8TB capacity. It really doesn't matter. If your goal is protecting data I would highly recommend against buying this drive unless you are buying 2 or 3 of them. You should be able to lose at least 1/3rd of your drives without losing any data for your primary storage but ideally 1/2 of them. So more smaller drives in an array or pool is the way to go. My home storage cluster (maintained by my wife) is primarily 4-16TB drives in an unRAID storage pool with 220TB of usable storage. We can only lose 1/3rd of our drives before data loss but we have an off-site on the other side of the world in my mother-in-law's condo for our critical data at about 80TB of usable space but it can lose 2/3rds of its drives. All synchronized up to the minute over tailscale. We also host our own "cloud" sync service like "OneDrive" for keeping the photos and documents on our phones backed live (and because it is a bitch offloading photos from modern phones via USB).

Up until Linus ruined everyone's good time by telling every jerkoff about serverpartdeals (I will never forgive him for this) it has gotten much more expensive to have such a beefy system but we primarily still buy refurb drives. We lose about 1 drive a year at home. We use a mix of anything that is up-to-spec including Seagate at home. There is a measurable brand difference in quality for Enterprise but is the percentage point increase in possible failure worth getting a drive for 40% cheaper than the competition? Backing up data is a numbers game so absolutely not but your call. Your money - your data.

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Quote from Anticrawl :
Their enterprise drives have a negligible difference in failure rate after 5 years vs HGST/Western Digital. Basically nothing. A majority of drives we have in my datacenter (manage/design/maintain for a large organization) in our 1.4PB (petabyte) of storage that isn't solid state is Seagate. I've replaced maybe 7 drives in 5 years at our datacenter: 3 were Toshiba at least, and the rest were likely Seagate. Typically 4, 6, and 8TB capacity. It really doesn't matter. If your goal is protecting data I would highly recommend against buying this drive unless you are buying 2 or 3 of them. You should be able to lose at least 1/3rd of your drives without losing any data for your primary storage but ideally 1/2 of them. So more smaller drives in an array or pool is the way to go. My home storage cluster (maintained by my wife) is primarily 4-16TB drives in an unRAID storage pool with 220TB of usable storage. We can only lose 1/3rd of our drives before data loss but we have an off-site on the other side of the world in my mother-in-law's condo for our critical data at about 80TB of usable space but it can lose 2/3rds of its drives. All synchronized up to the minute over tailscale. We also host our own "cloud" sync service like "OneDrive" for keeping the photos and documents on our phones backed live (and because it is a bitch offloading photos from modern phones via USB).Up until Linus ruined everyone's good time by telling every jerkoff about serverpartdeals (I will never forgive him for this) it has gotten much more expensive to have such a beefy system but we primarily still buy refurb drives. We lose about 1 drive a year at home. We use a mix of anything that is up-to-spec including Seagate at home. There is a measurable brand difference in quality for Enterprise but is the percentage point increase in possible failure worth getting a drive for 40% cheaper than the competition? Backing up data is a numbers game so absolutely not but your call. Your money - your data.[IMG]https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/19_Aging.png[/IMG]
Is the Barracuda inside of this considered an enterprise drive?

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