Where are all 28TB external hard drives? Popular Seagate Expansion drives vanish from retailers' virtual shelves as…
Seagate produces the largest external hard disk drive on the market, the Expansion or STKP28000400, a 28TB behemoth. You can't buy it, though and there's evidence that hyperscalers and businesses are buying all high-capacity drives they can, leaving end users to feed on scraps.
I checked on Seagate, B&H Photo, Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, Microcenter and Newegg. All of these popular online retailers showed the item as being sold out, without any backorder option. In other words, they don't know when the 28TB Expansion will be back in stock.
But don't worry, if you really, really want one, scalpers are here to help at a price. This drive has a retail price of $570 and you could have bought it for $390 in January 2025. 18 months later, scalpers are happy to sell you for about $1,000.
A sign of the times?
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