Seagate 28TB Expansion Desktop Hard Drive | USB 3.0 (STKP28000400)

Ordered late in the evening of Tuesday 6th Jan & delivered during the afternoon of Saturday 10th Jan. It seem physically robust as do its PSU, cables & connectors. Its LED read-write indicator works correctly. Nominally 28TB, it formats to 25TB in Windows [diagram enclosed]. It's on my desk and I can hear it ticking as it writes/reads. It took a day to write 12-13TB to it from my older, smaller external HDDs [which are now its backup drives, I use a RoboCopy batch script]. Its average write speed was about 100-150MB/sec. The included PSU output is 12V 1.5A - hence 18W [diagram enclosed]. I opted for the 4 year extended warranty for £10. Its terms include a pre-paid return should that prove necessary [which is better than Samsung-Seagate offer in their warranty]. - I have nine other Samsung-Seagate external HDDs, aged up to twenty years, and none of them have ever malfunctioned. Whilst writing this review, I've dug out & re-checked two twenty year old ones to make sure they still worked. - I started backing up my data as soon as I'd copied my files to it. Data recovery services may not succeed; they are not a substitute for backups.

This drive is pretty decent, i did have issues to start with the drive losing connection quite a lot, but I worked out pretty quick to plug it straing into my socket and not extension cable, storage wise this is pretty big! Not bad for £407

Very easy to set up and use. Recommended.

Un poco grande pero necesario por su capacidad!

Tudo certo

Tenho muitos HD's de alta capacidade, inclusive 2 de 28TB, infelizmente o preço atual está abusivo, mesmo assim preferi arriscar e pagar, pois o cenário tende a piorar. Infelizmente a Seagate reduziu a garantia dos seus HD's externos, antes era 5 anos, agora apenas 1. Certamente fizeram isso na tentativa de inibir a prática de remover os drives das carcaças e "torná-los internos". Os HD's externos costumam ser mais baratos do que as unidades puramente internas, mas para usuários comuns a diferença de preço não compensa. Tenho vários há muitos anos e nenhum apresentou problema até hoje.

Item arrived yesterday. Played around with it. It is working quite well right now. Here are some of my findings: 1. Warranty until 2027-01-08, checked from Seagate website by serial number. So it's not two years as described in the Item Detail. 2. Disk is ST28000DM000, both reported by CrystalDiskInfo and HWiNFO. 3. RPM 7200, by CrystalDiskInfo and HWiNFO. So it's not 5400 as said in the spec in the Amazon page. 4. I tried to find the Data Recovery Service status with the serial number, it's been spinning forever. 5. After registered the product, I tried to create an account in their website. It gave me error. Their website is really garbage. Add-on, I chatted with the product support, he said warranty is 2 years, from invoice day. Website report is calculating from manufacturing date, that is wrong. Data Recovery Service is also valid for two years.