The Massive 22TB Seagate External Hard Drive Is on Sale at Amazon: The Best Deal for Local Storage – IGN
If you’re shopping for a huge amount of local storage, this is one of the best deals available right now. For a limited time, Amazon is offering this massive Seagate Expansion 22TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive for $249.99 shipped. That averages out to just $11.36 per TB of storage. The drive is sold by a marketplace vendor – QuickDealStore – with an 85% rating out of 460 reviews over the past 12 months. Amazon, as always, has a 30 day guaranteed return policy.
Update: Seagate’s online store also has this drive for $239.99.
Seagate 22TB External Hard Drive From $239.99
Seagate Expansion 22TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive
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The Seagate Expansion boasts a single 22TB disk drive so it’s no bigger than any other desktop hard drive. It features a USB 3.0 interface, which won’t bottleneck traditional hard drive speeds, and a USB 3.0 cable is included in the packaging. It also includes recovery software and automatic recognition of both Windows and Mac computers.
Although SSDs are all the rage these days, traditional hard drives are still the superior choice for long term storage. For one, hard drives are significantly less expensive. Compared to this hard drive’s $11.36/TB cost, a solid state drive would run you at least $50/TB. Hard drives also have a much higher maximum capacity. Consumer SSDs generally cap out at 8TB, which pales in comparison to the 22TB capacity of this drive. Perhaps most importantly, although SSDs can equal HDDs in terms of lifespan, it’s much easier to recover data from a HDD than SSD if either one fails.
Looking for more alternatives? Check out the best external hard drives of 2025.
Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn’t hunting for deals for other people at work, he’s hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
