If you’re shopping for a huge amount of local storage, this is one of the best deals available right now. For a limited time, Best Buy is offering this massive Seagate Expansion 24TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive for only $279.99 shipped. That averages out to just $11.67 per TB of storage and the best route for anyone who wants to stack tons of storage and doesn’t want or need to pay extra for SSD speeds.
Seagate 24TB External Hard Drive for $280
Seagate Expansion 24TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive
The Seagate Expansion boasts a single 20TB disk drive so it’s no bigger than any other desktop hard drive. It features a USB 3.0 interface with roughly up to 100MB/s transfer speed, which is in line with what you’d expect from a traditional hard drive. It also includes recovery software and automatic recognition of both Windows and Mac computers.
Although SSDs are all the rage these days, traditional hard drives are still the superior choice for long term storage. For one, hard drives are significantly less expensive. Compared to this hard drive’s $11.67/TB cost, a solid state drive would run you at least $50/TB. Hard drives also have a much higher maximum capacity. Consumer SSDs generally cap out at 8TB, which pales in comparison to the 20TB capacity of this drive. Perhaps most importantly, although SSDs can equal HDDs in terms of lifespan, it’s much easier to recover data from a HDD than SSD if either one fails.
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Originally posted:
Mar 5, 2025 1:55 am
