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Seagate has 22TB Seagate External USB 3.0 Expansion Desktop Hard Drive (STKP22000400) on sale for $229.99. Shipping is free.
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About this product:
- Requires only a power adapter and USB cable to get started (included)
- USB 3.0 allows fast file transfers
- Compatible with most Windows and macOS systems
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- This offer matches the previous Frontpage Deal.
- At the time of this posting, our research indicates that this is $20 lower than the next best comparable online prices starting from $249.99.
- This deal works out to ~$10.45/TB storage space.
- 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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Seagate has 22TB Seagate External USB 3.0 Expansion Desktop Hard Drive (STKP22000400) on sale for $229.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member SplendidSeed435 for sharing this deal.
About this product:
Thanks to Community Member SplendidSeed435 for sharing this deal.
About this product:
- Requires only a power adapter and USB cable to get started (included)
- USB 3.0 allows fast file transfers
- Compatible with most Windows and macOS systems
Editor's Notes
Written by citan359 | Staff- About this Store:
- Seagate Returns Policy can be found here.
- Additional Information:
- This offer matches the previous Frontpage Deal.
- At the time of this posting, our research indicates that this is $20 lower than the next best comparable online prices starting from $249.99.
- This deal works out to ~$10.45/TB storage space.
- 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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Source: [seagate.com]
Source: [seagate.com]
Technically, that workload rating is for the Barracuda, as the Expansion lacks that spec entirely. As for the claim that shucking activates a 5 year warranty, that's just totally absurd.
I think you need to get a new friend. BTW, the drive may still be adequate for your purposes, just please don't spread misinformation.
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FYI I just learned that the workload rating for drives is based on writes and not reads from our good friend Grok. If this is not the case and someone knows differently please let me know.
Workload Rating = Writes Only (Not Reads)
Workload Rating Definitions
Seagate - "Annualized Workload Rate" = Total TB written per year (reads do not count)
WD - Same — "Workload Rate = TB written/year"
Reads are unlimited.
Streaming 100 TB of movies via Plex? Doesn't count.
Copying 50 TB of new movies once per year? That's your write workload.
The Barracudas in this have a workload rating of 55 TB/year, but if you're only adding to the drives once and then reading from that point on, it should be all good for a Plex use case versus an IronWolf Pro or similar NAS certified drive.
Also per Grok:
Warranty Note: Shucking voids the external drive's 1-year warranty but activates the internal drive's full 5-year Seagate warranty (register via serial number on the drive label).
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FYI I just learned that the workload rating for drives is based on writes and not reads from our good friend Grok. If this is not the case and someone knows differently please let me know.
Workload Rating = Writes Only (Not Reads)
Workload Rating Definitions
Seagate - "Annualized Workload Rate" = Total TB written per year (reads do not count)
WD - Same — "Workload Rate = TB written/year"
Reads are unlimited.
Streaming 100 TB of movies via Plex? Doesn't count.
Copying 50 TB of new movies once per year? That's your write workload.
The Barracudas in this have a workload rating of 55 TB/year, but if you're only adding to the drives once and then reading from that point on, it should be all good for a Plex use case versus an IronWolf Pro or similar NAS certified drive.
Also per Grok:
Warranty Note: Shucking voids the external drive's 1-year warranty but activates the internal drive's full 5-year Seagate warranty (register via serial number on the drive label).
Source: [seagate.com]
I think you need to get a new friend. BTW, the drive may still be adequate for your purposes, just please don't spread misinformation.
Source: [seagate.com]
Source: [seagate.com]
Technically, that workload rating is for the Barracuda, as the Expansion lacks that spec entirely. As for the claim that shucking activates a 5 year warranty, that's just totally absurd.
I think you need to get a new friend. BTW, the drive may still be adequate for your purposes, just please don't spread misinformation.
Similarly, if anyone can verify or refute what you had posted (outside of the warranty for the drive which I take to be true since you're a second commenting source about that) then it would add more weight to those points since we've both posted information we've gathered from one place or another. I'm just trying to help out.
No tone on the above either just thinking it through.
*EDIT Was on mobile and didn't see the links to your sources until I switched to desktop mode.
Not looking to spread disinformation, just relaying information as it was gathered from Grok who had used several anecdotal sources from various forums such as the datahoarder subreddit regarding the warranty on the shucked drive. I also stated my source and if it was incorrect asked someone to say so.
Similarly, if anyone can verify or refute what you had posted (outside of the warranty for the drive which I take to be true since you're a second commenting source about that) then it would add more weight to those points since we've both posted information we've gathered from one place or another. I'm just trying to help out.
No tone on the above either just thinking it through.
*EDIT Was on mobile and didn't see the links to your sources until I switched to desktop mode.
There is so much misinformation around storage like if you don't have DRAM in your SSD your experience will be crap, once your drive hits its TBW limit it will turn into a pumpkin, etc.
The big thing for mechanical drives is limiting risk and to limit risk you raid, backup in the system and if you have the availability get a drive with a long warranty-- say 5 years. They exist in used drives and for new enterprise ones.
If you buy a drive like this you may have a 1 year warranty, but you can get a used enterprise drive for less and a 5 year warranty.
So buying these isn't necessarily the best financial move, however they are "new".
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Consistent with this person's experience: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...are_
Haven't shucked yet but based on the read/write numbers I'm seeing, it's probably exos.
Consistent with this person's experience: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoar...are_
Haven't shucked yet but based on the read/write numbers I'm seeing, it's probably exos.
Similarly, if anyone can verify or refute what you had posted (outside of the warranty for the drive which I take to be true since you're a second commenting source about that) then it would add more weight to those points since we've both posted information we've gathered from one place or another. I'm just trying to help out.
No tone on the above either just thinking it through.
*EDIT Was on mobile and didn't see the links to your sources until I switched to desktop mode.
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