This is the cheapest hard drive per TB right now and I fear stocks will vanish at this price

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This is a new Seagate Barracuda ST24000DM001 24TB hard drive, sold for $244.99 at Newegg and Walmart, a huge saving of $55 or 18%. It is one of the largest hard disk drives currently on sale.

I have never seen a hard disk drive of this capacity this cheap, even on Amazon Prime Day or Black Friday - I had to double-check a few times to make sure that Newegg was not selling a refurbished drive.

Amazon sells it for $400 so, this is a huge bargain that Newegg managed to grab. Note that the 24TB desktop HDD version of this drive is available for $260.

Today's best hard disk drive deal

The price of the ST24000DM001 is at a 18% discount off the usual RRP and at just $10.21 per TB, significantly less than the competition. Cheaper than when I covered it back in June 2025. To gauge how good that deal is, Newegg sells a 20TB Seagate drive for $72 more so hurry up, the special pricing for the drive means that stocks are likely to disappear fast.

This Seagate Barracuda drive is a 3.5-inch one, one of the best hard drives on the market. It uses the proven CMR technology and delivers speeds of up to 190MB/s with a 7200RPM rotational speed and 512MB cache. It also features Seagate’s free DiscWizard software tool which helps novices migrate and clone data from old hard drives seamlessly.

It doesn’t come with any data recovery services - useful when your drive stops working either by accident or because of hardware failure. Just remember that 24TB is a lot of data to be lost if something goes wrong. I strongly recommend using a cloud backup service like Backblaze to mitigate the risk of losing all your data, due to theft, failure or something else.

Unlike its more expensive peers within Seagate, this one has only a two two-year warranty. You cannot buy an extended warranty at Newegg sadly.

Other HDDs deals to consider

Buy two 14TB Red Pro NAS drives for $499.98. Great for NAS as they come with 5-year limited warranty and are engineered to run 24/7.

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Désiré has been musing and writing about technology during a career spanning four decades. He dabbled in website builders and web hosting when DHTML and frames were in vogue and started narrating about the impact of technology on society just before the start of the Y2K hysteria at the turn of the last millennium.

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