Seagate Expansion 16TB Desktop External HDD – USB 3.0 for Windows and Mac with 3 yr Data Recovery Services, Portable Hard Drive (STKP16000400), Black

Bought to replace multiple smaller external hard drives for back up storage of photos and videos etc. has been running for some time now with no failure and takes up very little room near the PC and can be easily removed and taken elsewhere to plug into other laptops or PCs.

Great brand, great product

Appena arrivato l’ho messo subito al lavoro per un backup da 4Tbyte, ci ha messo 5 ore circa senza fare una piega. Alla fine del lavoro era leggermente caldo, ottima la dissipazione del calore che effettuano le forature sotto e di lato. Per sentire il rumore del disco e della testina di scrittura devi avvicinare l’orecchio all’involucro. Ora bisogna aspettare per collaudare l’affidabilità nel tempo, comunque ho già da tempo altri due dischi interni della Seagate che non mi hanno dato alcun problema.

It’s highly unusual that Amazon clubs the entire product stack into one review. Which means if you buy a 10TB and a 16TB, you can still only post one review. Extremely strange.

Anyway I’ve already reviewed the 16TB version back in January, and the full text of that review is below this one. I purchased the updated 10TB unit in the new chassis. Unlike the picture, the logo is static and does not glow. The indicator light is now a small white dot instead of the soft blue light from earlier. The 2.5″ drives use the same LED, so it makes sense for Seagate to use the same part.

The chassis is heavily vented, unlike the earlier, mostly closed-off design. This is a welcome change but also allows for much more dust ingress. Small insects can also comfortably enter and breed. Speeds are good, probably because of the 4-platter (?) design. It is close enough to the 16TB to comfortably recommend it, even though a 5- or 6-platter unit would be a little quicker.

I’ve posted the R/W speeds for this drive (the 16TB was already heavily reviewed so I didn’t bother). I also have the hub version of the 10TB unit that’s been in service for two years now and that is a little slower. Would really recommend using an aftermarket cable as Seagate supplies very poor quality USB cable that normally is the first part to fail. The 3.0 micro-B type connector is part of the problem, they should have switched to C long ago or retained the larger form factor B type, which is infinitely more reliable.

For Linux, the GPT table shows up corrupted and need to be fixed with gdisk. As expected, you get a bit over 9TB of formatted space (HDD manufacturers are allowed to use B but it’s actually b, so you’ve to divide by 1.024 every thousand).

There is every sort of plug you would want – an unnecessary expense and a lot of unusable plastic. Given that the 16TB cost about 26k when I got it, this is considerably lower value but after Chia and with the Chinese power crisis, prices aren’t going to drop soon.

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This is the original 16TB review:

It’s a very noisy drive, and not very portable. As a long-term archive it’s unmatched, and the very fast transfer speeds from the Exos drive within make it far less tedious to fill than most other drives.

The shipped USB cable will die in a few months because Seagate supplies a piece of string with all their external drives, so when it looks your drive is dying it’s probably the cable.

The seek noise and detection time is awful. Enterprise drives like the Exos are not designed to be turned off and noise is irrelevant in those applications, so while you get the very good speeds and assumed reliability, you also get the noise and heat that these drives produce.

The controller does shut the drive off in accordance with your power management settings, so that’s something. I will probably invest in another one soon, these are particularly good value when they’re below 25k.

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easy plug play for use