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.
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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