Seagate Expansion 26TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive STKP26000400 Black

Love this, easy to use and a metric ton of memory, i put everything I had on it and still have lots of room for more!

26tb Expansion drive, Dec2025, purchased for $309. Transfer speeds holds steady at 100-220mb/s over usb3, which is about as fast as the internal spin drives could push data. The case is a little thin and flimsy feeling compared to historical analogs, but there's plenty of vent holes, it doesn't matter at all to me that it's a bit thinner. It's plenty strong. I liked that it was formatted in advance, it plugs into my windows machines and Linux mint and Ubuntu machines seamlessly when unencrypted. Diag tool says it was a brand new drive, not a refurb.

I shucked the external chassis to get a cheap 26TB bare drive. It's a Seagate Exos something or other on the inside. So far as I can tell, it has similar characteristics to other 20TB+ Exos drives I own; a little louder than I'd like, capable of sustaining roughly 220MB/sec file transfers and big enough to be a meaningful upgrade for my 5 year old 16TB drives. I'm not worried about losing the warranty but I do think Seagate should warranty the drive by itself rather than the drive specifically in the enclosure.

Works well as described

Horrible. The equipment never worked. It came with old USB input boards, and the seller was not trustworthy.

This is a lightning fast drive IF you chuck the case and attach it directly to your PC's motherboard with a SATA cable. In my opinion, that's the only practical option. You can keep the USB board and a cable handy, just in case you need to bring the drive to another place and transfer files. Cases trap heat which throttles transfer speeds down and shortens drive life too, so do yourself a favor and strip it (once you're confident it's not faulty, and you're pretty sure you won't have to return it).

26tb version is good, drive is new, however according to the smart data even in idle being connected to the computer it gets past 135 within 30 minutes so the enclosure isn't great. That's at 72 degrees room temperature. I struggle to understand if my housing is faulty or if this is intended for obvious reasons.

Very slow rate of transfer. Also it "fills up" at less than 20 TB despite being rated as 26 TB. DO NOT recommend this.

best product

muito bom!

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Dysk nie jest cichym dyskiem ale używam go jako kopia wiec mi to nie przeszkadza ze potrafi dosyć słyszalnie "chrobotać" Jednak dla mnie sprawuje się bardzo dobrze nie mam z nim żadnych problemów. Przychodzi dobrze zapakowany. W środku u mnie był Exos ale podobno trafiają sie też Barracudy. Dysk był nowy. Po weryfikacji SMART nie był wyczyszczony przez producenta, nie jest to refubrished jak sugerują opinie z innych krajów. Przynajmniej mój. Żałuje trochę że nie kupiłem dwóch. Kupiony za 800zl. Polecam w tej cenie bardzo

Works great and is very easy to set up. Quite noisy and you can feel the ticks within my desk. You have to use the enclosed PSU (not a generic 12v HDD PSU) because it uses a lot more power than other HDD's, but of course, 26TB means you can give away all those old units! The PSU comes with a variety of pin adaptors for every plug on the planet, including EU, UK, Oz and US. I have purchased this purely to backup my main file server and store it off site. To initially copy 21TB took about 30 hours and once initially copied, the weekly update takes about 15 mins, so quite nifty and perfect for my application. I personally, would not use this as a permanently connected drive, its a bit too big, noisy and clunky (and of course 26TB is way beyond a USB connection!), a built in drive is better for speed, power, ventilation, vibration proofing etc. and this drive is probably the ultimate for being able to transport that data in a safe secure manner. You will need something with lots of memory to connect to it because chances are that 26TB of data will probably be over a million files! Make sure windows is set to 'Not indexed' and your anti virus scanner is configured to 'not check' when connected because something this large in capacity takes hours not minutes (and my PC is 5.6 Ghz, 32G RAM so no slouch!)