Expansion 26TB USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive STKP26000400 Black

Love this, easy to use and a metric ton of memory, i put everything I had on it and still have lots of room for more!

26tb Expansion drive, Dec2025, purchased for $309. Transfer speeds holds steady at 100-220mb/s over usb3, which is about as fast as the internal spin drives could push data. The case is a little thin and flimsy feeling compared to historical analogs, but there's plenty of vent holes, it doesn't matter at all to me that it's a bit thinner. It's plenty strong. I liked that it was formatted in advance, it plugs into my windows machines and Linux mint and Ubuntu machines seamlessly when unencrypted. Diag tool says it was a brand new drive, not a refurb.

Works well as described

I shucked the external chassis to get a cheap 26TB bare drive. It's a Seagate Exos something or other on the inside. So far as I can tell, it has similar characteristics to other 20TB+ Exos drives I own; a little louder than I'd like, capable of sustaining roughly 220MB/sec file transfers and big enough to be a meaningful upgrade for my 5 year old 16TB drives. I'm not worried about losing the warranty but I do think Seagate should warranty the drive by itself rather than the drive specifically in the enclosure.

This is a lightning fast drive IF you chuck the case and attach it directly to your PC's motherboard with a SATA cable. In my opinion, that's the only practical option. You can keep the USB board and a cable handy, just in case you need to bring the drive to another place and transfer files. Cases trap heat which throttles transfer speeds down and shortens drive life too, so do yourself a favor and strip it (once you're confident it's not faulty, and you're pretty sure you won't have to return it).

Horrible. The equipment never worked. It came with old USB input boards, and the seller was not trustworthy.

Very slow rate of transfer. Also it "fills up" at less than 20 TB despite being rated as 26 TB. DO NOT recommend this.

26tb version is good, drive is new, however according to the smart data even in idle being connected to the computer it gets past 135 within 30 minutes so the enclosure isn't great. That's at 72 degrees room temperature. I struggle to understand if my housing is faulty or if this is intended for obvious reasons.