The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/SLJ7 on 2025-06-19 17:13:47.
Bought a 22 TB Seagate external recently when it was on sale for roughly $250 USD from Amazon. I discuss this here. That post was more than 2 months ago, and the drive is working well. I see those same drives are on sale directly from Seagate for CAD $350 (just over 250 US).
My old tower recently crapped out on me, and I had to shuffle a bunch of data from a Windows Storage Space onto spare drives. I realized the three 8 TB Storage Space drives I had in there are at least five years old. They're probably fine for non-critical data, but it seems like it might be smart to replace them. Should I just get another of these? Is there a better deal elsewhere?
I also notice 24 TB drives are $40 CAD more (about $30 US), which brings the price/TB up from $15.90 CAD to $16.25, but still seems like a fairly good deal. No idea if the drives inside the 24 TB models are different.
I'm thinking of getting more than 1. So thoughts are welcome.
I don't know if either of these links will work properly for non-Canadians. I think they'll just show local prices until you change countries.