Seagate Expansion 28TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0, with Rescue Data Recovery Services (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.

Bon disque dur qui fait le job, mais comme d'habitude sur ce genre d'appareil, l'alimentation externe est un petit bloc médiocre, pas assez de filtrage et de condensateurs, d'où une extrême sensibilité aux micro coupures du secteur. Si vous manipulez des fichiers au moment d'une micro-coupure, les données sont souvent perdues, et pire, cela abîme le disque dur. Ce n'est pas que Seagate, c'est pareil pour toutes les marques. Il faut donc impérativement un onduleur ! Le risque est énorme !

I have a 5 TB that is on its last legs. So I’m transferring al my files. I keep getting errors or the transfers will stop. But I’m sure it’s mostly my bad drive. But my brand new Seagate keeps making sounds. Like I can hear it through the dresser. But I’m guessing it normal. So Chat GPT tells me to use crystalDiskInfo, it gives you info on your drives like the health and temperature. So I’m seeing my bad drive is obviously bad. I knew that. But my seagate is in good health but the temperature is like 56! So GPT say it’s not getting enough airflow and I’m like Duh. They put the vents on the bottom with like a centimeter little stub legs. So I put it on its side and it didn’t really help. GPT says lift it. So that’s why you see the photo of it in on the bottles. But still hot. GPT says it needs a fan for airflow. So I remember I have neck fan. BINGO. Temp drops imminently. So that is my drawn out way of saying what a horrible design. Now everything is normal. So if you’re having issues with your drive you might want to see if it’s overhead. It will be ok for a while at high temperatures, but a few months and your drive will go bad. I actually remember why I never got anything above 5 TB. Because if something goes wrong. You’re in trouble. Hence why I got a bad drive now. But my other 5 TB is still good. Oh well. Too late now. But now that I know how to cool my device. I’m hoping it last for a long time. It is a good deal if the device can actually cool itself. I was wondering my my room was so hot. Even my mom was like why it’s so hot in here. I’m like I don’t know. How can this little hard drive make so much heat 🤣🤣 Anyway, I just wanted to help others if they had issues. But it’s plug and play for PC. I wish the plug was smaller or just USB plug and start.

Great value per gigabyte. I recommend replacing the included USB (type B micro connector to USB type A) with type B micro connector to USB C for faster performance. The downside is the drive can be very loud when spinning up so you don't want to be using this drive in a quiet area like a bedroom. There is an included utility to keep the drive awake this but it only works on Windows. I have several of this model and all have had the same issue--it's a design flaw in the logic board not a defect in the drive itself. As others have pointed out, these drives do have an almost guaranteed failure rate. But, in my experience it is always a logic board failure and not a drive failure. Placing the drive in a new enclosure always gets the drive running again with zero data loss and fixes the noise issues as well. If you are thinking of buying this drive to shuck it's a great value but otherwise know you will most likely be replacing the enclosure due to failure about year two or three.

I was able to get the 28TB version in December of 2025 for around $280. For that price it’s incredible. I already have 2 NAS units running enterprise drives, but wanted something small I could store offline and offsite. This is perfect for that use case. It’s insane that this much storage is available now on a standard sized drive. Can’t speak to the durability, but so far, so good!