Seagate Expansion Desktop 26TB, Externe Harde Schijf, 3.5", PC & Laptop, USB 3.0, Data Rescue Service (STKP26000400)

Superior speed (I noted nearly double the rate - about 220 mb/s) over previous models and so much space to store backups! Worth every penny!

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.

All the storage ai will ever need to back up my media collection.

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.

As others have noted this drive runs pretty hot. Its temperature got up to 63C during the backup before I noticed something was off and 60C is its official upper threshold (50C is what the internet says should be the safe upper limit). The drive was operating next to a cold window in a cool room so the environment was not the issue. Were it not for the poor temperature control and the somewhat high price ($350 as of late Jan 2026) I'd have rated it higher. It might be fine as an internal drive or moved to an external enclosure with active cooling.

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!

VERY noisy, I hear it running 2 rooms away, VERY hot running, 59c compared to internal 36c. Think I shouldn't have bought this for wife's backup unit. Sure hope it lasts to at least end of warranty, but VERY doubtful!!!!

Works well as described