Seagate's 22TB External Hard Drive Now on Sale at Amazon: Unbeatable Local Storage Deal

If you're in the market for a substantial amount of local storage, this deal is one of the best currently available. For a limited time, Amazon is offering the massive Seagate Expansion 22TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive for just $249.99, including shipping. That works out to an impressive $11.36 per TB of storage. The drive is sold by a marketplace vendor, QuickDealStore, which boasts an 85% rating from 460 reviews over the past year. As always, Amazon provides a 30-day guaranteed return policy.

Update: Seagate's online store also has this drive listed for $239.99.

Seagate Expansion 22TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive

$299.99 save 17%
$249.99 at Amazon
$299.99 save 20%
$239.99 at Seagate

The Seagate Expansion features a single 22TB disk drive, making it no larger than any typical desktop hard drive. It comes equipped with a USB 3.0 interface that ensures you won't experience any bottlenecks with traditional hard drive speeds, and it includes a USB 3.0 cable. Additionally, the package includes recovery software and automatic recognition for both Windows and Mac computers.

While SSDs are currently very popular, traditional hard drives remain the preferred option for long-term storage. Hard drives are significantly more cost-effective, with this model offering storage at $11.36 per TB, compared to at least $50 per TB for SSDs. Moreover, hard drives boast much larger maximum capacities; consumer SSDs typically top out at 8TB, which is dwarfed by the 22TB capacity of this drive. Perhaps most crucially, although SSDs and HDDs may have similar lifespans, data recovery is far simpler from a HDD than from an SSD if either fails.

Interested in other options? Be sure to check out the best external hard drives of 2025.

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