Land 18TB of Seagate portable backup storage for $300 today (Amazon all-time low)
Amazon is now offering the Seagate Expansion 18TB External Hard Drive for $299.99 shipped. Regularly $500 like it typically fetches at B&H and Best Buy, although it is marked down to match Amazon at both retailers right now. As of late, this model has been bouncing between $330 and as much as $380 at Amazon and is now at a new all-time low there. While it certainly can’t run as fast as a more modern portable SSD, this 2021 release delivers a far better value on a per TB basis than a solid-state variant that will cost more than this with a fraction of the storage space. You’re looking at roughly $16.50 per TB here as opposed to $80 per TB on something like the SanDisk 4TB Extreme Portable SSD, to put things in perspective. The Seagate Expansion provides USB 3.0 connectivity and works for backups on Windows and Mac machines out of the box (a reformat is required for use as a Time Machine device). More details below.
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