Seagate.com Hard Drives - 4TB & 6TB IronWolf, 14TB IronWolf Pro, 6TB & 20TB Expansion Externals

[mindless1]

Was browsing around bottom feeding for HDDs, came across a few deals direct from Seagate with free S/H on $100+ orders. While supplies last.

IronWolf 6TB ST6000VN006 $109.99 -or- 4TB $84.99

Seagate IronWolf NAS Hard Drives (NAS Storage) | Seagate US

Seagate IronWolf® NAS hard drives deliver reliable, high-capacity storage with 24×7 performance, built-in RV sensors, and AgileArray™ for optimal NAS compatibility.

www.seagate.com

IronWolf Pro 14TB ST14000NT001 $229.99

https://www.seagate.com/products/nas-drives/ironwolf-pro-hard-drive/?sku=ST14000NT001&store=1

Expansion 6TB $109.99

Expansion Desktop Hard Drive | Seagate US

Enhance your storage capacity with the Seagate expansion desktop external hard drive, which is perfect for adding space, consolidating files, and freeing up your computer’s drive.

www.seagate.com

Expansion 20TB $229.99

Expansion Desktop Hard Drive | Seagate US

Enhance your storage capacity with the Seagate expansion desktop external hard drive, which is perfect for adding space, consolidating files, and freeing up your computer’s drive.

www.seagate.com

Hard to guess how these compare to potential Black Friday deals and not everyone likes Seagate, but it's definitely a different market today than it used to be. Never before do I recall paying ~25% more for the same drive than I did two years prior.

 

[Steltek]

Seagate has been selling the 14TB at that price since at least 10/30/25. They jacked up the MSRP to make the discount look larger; however, it is the best price for a decent new high-ish capacity NAS drive that I've seen going currently.

From what I understand, Newegg is supposed to be selling 24TB Seagate Barracuda drives for $240 beginning on 11/20/25. That said, Barracudas are junk drives these days that I wouldn't trust any of my data to.

 

[mikeymikec]

Newegg is supposed to be selling 24TB Seagate Barracuda drives for $240 beginning on 11/20/25; however, Barracuda drives are junk that I wouldn't trust my data to.

General FYI/PSA: According to the specs, all current Seagate Barracuda 3.5" drives below 16GB capacity are SMR and 5400RPM too.

https://www.seagate.com/content/dam/seagate/en_gb/content-fragments/products/datasheets/barracuda-3-5-hdd/barracuda-3-5-hdd-DS17-1-2501US-en_GB.pdf

I kind of expected it to be the other way around to be honest (higher capacities with SMR), but maybe there's an issue with a relatively large amount of data that such a large SMR drive would basically never get done ('never' relative to realistic time frames that say a 9 to 5 PC is kept running for).

Personally I think the notion of 5400RPM + SMR is so problematic that I wonder what would be quicker to write to: a 4TB HDD or a reasonably decent USB flash drive (the sort I pay about £10-£20 to get say a 128/256GB drive)!

 

[manly]

Data center AI, the gift grift that keeps on giving.

 

[mindless1]

Personally I think the notion of 5400RPM + SMR is so problematic that I wonder what would be quicker to write to: a 4TB HDD or a reasonably decent USB flash drive (the sort I pay about £10-£20 to get say a 128/256GB drive)!

I have a few 5K4 SMR drives, with large file writes around 150MB/s but to a NAS with only 1GbE connection, ~105MB/s.

I don't mind because it's mostly WORM video files and for the externals, offline redundant backup at that.

Anywhere I need performance it's SSD source and destination drives, but redundantly backing up tens of TB of data to SSDs is cost prohibitive for my purposes.