Expansion 22TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0, with Rescue Data Recovery Services (STKP22000400)

I read one article that suggested a 7.3% failure rate within three years for Seagate Expansion drives. Well then lucky me - ordered 2 and one was a brick 24 hours later. Here's the problem. By that time I had already copied 4-5 TB of confidential project data to the drive - the drive that now just clicks and will no longer mount. So .. there is every buyers dilemma with a drive that dies - the sellers expect you to either send back drives with platters full of data or eat the costs and keep the dead ones. The ethical thing to do would be to send a replacement drive and let the user destroy the dead drive - i would have been happy to send pics after introducing the drive to a sledgehammer. Seagate however wanted me to send some parts to satisfy their certificate of destruction process but would provide no documentation as to what parts they needed to satisfy their COD nor any timeframe for replacement - can't make this up. Further, to start the Seagate COD process you have to agree to accept a used drive as a replacement - as someone that paid for a new drive that died within 24 hours you might imagine my reply to that requirement. Update Apr28/26 - After some considerable back and forth between seller and Seagate the seller stepped up and took responsibility and replaced the dead drive. Translation - the seller provided better customer service than the manufacturer was willing to provide. Fair. Thank you. Takeaway - buy from this seller - but stay well away from Seagate.

Large size DataSafe! I have 3 of these (Two from Amazon, one from a brick and mortar) in the 22TB form for data backup, which seems to be what they're designed to be. A piece of advice from a data hoarder: Always have 3 backups of your data, one offsite. I have ~20TB of media and other data that I need to keep safe and purchased these before the price went crazy. Two I have on site and keep them up to date, backing up monthly or if there's a big change, and the other one I update bi-annually that lives in a safety deposit box at the bank and rotate every six months. To me, the data I have is priceless. If the price comes down I'll definitely buy another one in a size or two larger just because losing all my data gives me the heebie jeebies, it gives room to grow, and I'd just put that one away long term. These drives, to me, seem to be designed as somewhere you put your important data, put the drive back in the box, and only open it again when you're backing up, or when the unthinkable happens and you need to rebuild a hefty NAS, and for that, they're phenomenal. It doesn't seem to be designed as a constant use drive as some here are using it for. Unit comes with a somewhat cheesy USB to MicroB, which is... short but adequate. Buy one of the near bulletproof braided metal covered cables and toss that into the box for long term storage and forget about it. Additionally it has power adaptors for just about every possible and unpossible power solution, so if you need to take a backup to shores unknown, from downtown Anyplace Earth, you can set it up anywhere, do your file transfer, put it back in the box, and be happy. Stay DataSafe!

22TBとありますが、実質は20TB使用可能でした。

Llegó antes de la fecha. Es más pesado y ancho que el modelo anterior probablemente por la capacidad en terabytes. Espero que la durabilidad vaya acorde.

Just got the HD today. It is doing what it's supposed to do. The speed is fast, but a bit of rumbling when in use. Nothing too major, just put it on a piece of cloth and it should absorb some noise. The LED light is bright (from the inside), so if you have the HD in your bedroom, it might disturb your sleep. I got a 22TB HD at about $400 after tax. So it was about $18CAD per TB, pretty inexpensive compared to what I've bought before, 8TB for $200. Now I don't have to worry about insufficient storage for my photos (JPG and RAW).