Seagate's 24TB BarraCuda is back in stock for just $0.01 per gigabyte — the storage steal of the weekend returns, still great value
Seagate's monster 24TB BarraCuda hard drive is back on sale for nearly the same price that we last saw it at. The 7200RPM high-capacity champ is on sale for $260 at Newegg. It still isn't as cheap as it was previously, costing just $240, but even at its elevated $260 price point, the drive costs just $0.01 per gigabyte and is still a bargain deal.
The last time we saw this drive on sale, stock ran out pretty quickly, so don't sleep on this deal if you are shopping for a high-capacity hard drive right now.
Seagate's Barracuda lineup is one of the most well-known names in storage, and we've reviewed a lot of them. It may not win any awards, but when we tested the 8 TB variant, it had very low power consumption, the least among all drives in most benchmarks. Regardless, the 24 TB variant we're highlighting today spins at 7200 RPM and uses the SATA 6 GB/s interface, enabling transfer speeds of up to 190 MB/s. That's possible in part due to the 512 MB of onboard cache, which makes this drive a bit faster than the bare-bones offerings.
With 24TB, that is enough to store a thousand movies, depending on the quality of said movies. You can't beat the price of Seagate's 24TB BarraCuda right now; equivalent drives from other vendors cost over $400, including 24TB drives from Toshiba, Western Digital. Essentially, you are getting over 50% off on Seagate's BarraCuda compared to other drives with the same storage capacity.
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Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.
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