Huge 28TB Seagate external HDD just hit an all-time low price — data hoarder's dream Black Friday storage upgrade for less than $11 per TB

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If you're looking for a big storage upgrade for Black Friday, then this Seagate external HDD deal is the one for you. A whopping 28TB of HDD storage space is on offer, leaving you plenty of room to store a massive collection of photos, videos, and documents.

Amazon has dropped the price of this Seagate Expansion Desktop 28TB HDD to just $289.99, slashing it by 24% to a new record low. This Black Friday discount means you'll be getting a traditional 3.5" hard disk drive, contained in its own external enclosure with a separate power source that connects to your PC via USB 3.0 for simple setup and file transfer. The deal also comes with Seagate's Rescue Data Recovery service thrown in, just in case your drive does the unthinkable and fails.

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These kinds of external storage drives are ideal for the kind of data that don't require extremely fast transfer rates, offering a convenient solution for saving your files if you're not looking for a full-blown NAS. While some of these external HDD enclosures have Exos drives that are good for shucking the drives out of, it's a bit of a minefield determining what drive is actually contained inside. You'll need to research what drives do actually contain if this is your aim, as shucking the drive will almost certainly lead void the warranty.

This 28TB Seagate Expansion HDD is housed in a rugged black plastic case, measuring 7 x 2 x 5 inches, with small rubber feet on the bottom of the chassis. Power and USB cable connections are located at the rear of the drive, and the drive is powered using an external AC power adapter. You can't power this chunky drive just over USB, sadly.

Luckily, it does come with an 18-inch USB 3.0 cable, so you've got some length to play with if you don't have a spare outlet nearby. It should work as soon as you plug it into your PC or laptop, as long as it has power. If the drive does fail at any point, you can use the supplied Seagate Rescue Data Recovery service, which guarantees you a single in-lab attempt by professionals to recover the data.

Just over $10 per TB, especially for this amount of storage, really isn't a bad deal for this $289.99 28TB Seagate Extension Desktop HDD. This Black Friday deal is the cheapest we've seen this drive so far, so if you're tempted, make sure to pick it up before the stock runs out.

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Ben Stockton is a deals writer at Tom’s Hardware. He's been writing about technology since 2018, with bylines at PCGamesN, How-To Geek, and Tom’s Guide, among others. When he’s not hunting down the best bargains, he’s busy tinkering with his homelab or watching old Star Trek episodes.

24 Comments Comment from the forums

bit_user

@Paul Alcorn , I think it's not polite to use the term "data hoarder". Just because some people have embraced the term doesn't mean everyone is going to be okay with it. I can think of other examples of terms that some people have embraced but others definitely are not okay with.

Furthermore, it's totally unnecessary to the article. I don't know what Future's style guide might say on the matter, but it seems to me that most publications avoid the use of terms potentially causing offense unless it's necessitated by straight-forward and accurate reporting of the story.
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Allen_B

bit_user said:
@Paul Alcorn , I think it's not polite to use the term "data hoarder". Just because some people have embraced the term doesn't mean everyone is going to be okay with it. I can think of other examples of terms that some people have embraced but others definitely are not okay with.

Furthermore, it's totally unnecessary to the article. I don't know what Future's style guide might say on the matter, but it seems to me that most publications avoid the use of terms potentially causing offense unless it's necessitated by straight-forward and accurate reporting of the story.
If we eliminate every word or phrase with the potential to cause offense, we’ll have no words left. Sometimes you just have to toughen up a little bit.
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JRStern

I'm pretty sure the original 10mb disk for the IBM/XT cost more than $289, not to mention 10x inflation since that period.
Probably about the nominal price of a 5mb 14" disk cartridge circa 1975 with inflation about 20x.
I wonder if 28tb is more than the total spinning disk storage on the planet as late as 1970.
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bit_user

Allen_B said:
If we eliminate every word or phrase with the potential to cause offense, we’ll have no words left.
Nope. I've read this publication on a pretty much daily basis for about 15 years. This term is the first time I recall ever having such a complaint.

I'm also not the only one who's complained about this.

Allen_B said:
Sometimes you just have to toughen up a little bit.
Certainly, the publication has a right to decide what kind of tone it wants to have, and that's hopefully based on what sort of audience they want to attract. If that's what they decide, so be it.

To me, it would suggest a shift in the market segments targeted by the publication that perhaps doesn't align with my interests. However, that would seem slightly at odds with the audience they're trying to attract with the content in the Premium subscription service.
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bit_user

JRStern said:
I'm pretty sure the original 10mb disk for the IBM/XT cost more than $289, not to mention 10x inflation since that period.
10x inflation since 1981??? According to this, it's only 2.57x
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
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PBme

bit_user said:
Nope. I've read this publication on a pretty much daily basis for about 15 years. This term is the first time I recall ever having such a complaint.

Certainly, the publication has a right to decide what kind of tone it wants to have, and that's hopefully based on what sort of audience they want to attract. If that's what they decide, so be it.

To me, it would suggest a shift in the market segments targeted by the publication that perhaps doesn't align with my interests. However, that would seem slightly at odds with the audience they're trying to attract with the content in the Premium subscription service.
Congrats on reading tech site and being so stunningly ignorant about a commonly used phrase to describe anyone with larger amounts of storage. No one in the world, apparently except for you, finds 'data hoarder' concerning. I suppose your sensibilities are really going to be offended when you find out what the largest and oldest community about hard drives and data storage on Reddit is called.
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USAFRet

People...let's keep this on track, and a little less bitching about terms in the article. Whether you consider them offensive or otherwise.
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PBme

I picked up one (from Amazon - 3rd party seller for the $289 mentioned, not Seagate where I saw afterwards they are currently on BF for @279 with free shipping) as I didn't see that there were any 28tb barracuda drives for sale. So I gambled that it was an Exos, and if so I'd buy a ton more as they are cheaper than the used prices. But it was a Barracuda. On the plus side, it has the same top speed, transferring a 40GB sequential file at ~260MB/s (via USB, still in the enclosure).
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John_Turner

Happy Christmas to me, Happy Christmas to me.
I got my sister a toaster and...
Bought this beasty for me.
Mememe MEEEE!
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wwenze1

Allen_B said:
If we eliminate every word or phrase with the potential to cause offense, we’ll have no words left. Sometimes you just have to toughen up a little bit.
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick

PBme said:
I picked up one (from Amazon - 3rd party seller for the $289 mentioned, not Seagate where I saw afterwards they are currently on BF for @279 with free shipping) as I didn't see that there were any 28tb barracuda drives for sale. So I gambled that it was an Exos, and if so I'd buy a ton more as they are cheaper than the used prices. But it was a Barracuda. On the plus side, it has the same top speed, transferring a 40GB sequential file at ~260MB/s (via USB, still in the enclosure).

Waitwaitwaitwaitwaitwait... 3rd party seller... as in Seagate, or some account called txyghkjs?

Doubt anybody has encountered an actual EXOS for 26-28TB yet, it is usually Barracuda with HAMR. However as some as suspected this could be an EXOS-remade-into-Barracuda and shares performance numbers with EXOS rather than Barracuda (which are 24TB max currently).

It would be interesting to check using Seagate's own tool, it tells you what drive you have inside without shucking. I have always suspected the tool may not match the sticker and the tool may be more accurate, but I haven't had the chance to confirm.
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