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The Seagate Expansion is a 3.5-inch desktop hard drive with 28 TB of capacity, connected over USB 3.2 Gen 1 (USB 3.0). It is a plug-and-play drive for Windows and macOS, with its own power supply rather than drawing power from the USB port. The appeal is capacity: 28 TB holds very large photo, video and backup libraries in one enclosure, and it undercuts most high-capacity NAS drives and multi-bay setups on simplicity. It is a conventional spinning drive, so expect hard-drive transfer speeds, not SSD speed, and no hardware encryption or backup software beyond what the OS provides.
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Lowest price we've seen: $1,102.99 on Nov 12 at Amazon. Tracked across 1 store since Nov 12.
Owners of the Expansion line generally report easy setup and reliable everyday storage, and the high-capacity versions are popular for backups and media archives. The common complaints are the external power brick, the bulk of a 3.5-inch drive and speeds that are ordinary for a mechanical disk.
The Seagate Expansion is an external hard drive with 28 TB of storage in a 3.5-inch format. It connects over USB 3.2 Gen 1 (also called USB 3.1 Gen 1). The drive is black.
It works with Windows and Mac. It has no Wi-Fi. It does not draw power from the USB bus, so it runs from an external power adapter.
