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Remember when the first terabyte-sized external hard drives hit the market and blew everyone’s minds with how huge they were? How quaint. They were also as ginormously expensive as we thought their capacity was. Fast forward to current times, and there’s a 24TB drive from storage giant Seagate available at Amazon for just $280, which is a considerably lower per-terabyte price than those 1TB drives of old. The Seagate Expansion 24TB External Hard Drive is smaller, faster, and more reliable, and it works equally well with PC and Mac computers. See at Amazon So Much Storage The Seagate Expansion 24TB External Hard Drive isn’t pocket-sized, but at just 3 inches tall and a bit under 3 pounds, it is most definitely portable. The day will almost certainly come when there are pocket-sized 24TB drives, but until then, this is about as compact as they come. The USB 3.0 interface of the Seagate lets you move data on or off the drive at a blistering-fast 4800 MB/s, which you’ll be more than thankful for if you’re doing a full-computer backup for the first time, or getting everything off one machine to move onto a new one. Creators and photo and video enthusiasts will deeply appreciate the enormous 24TB capacity of the drive, as well as the speed with which it writes those huge files. See at Amazon Backup for the Backup The Seagate Expansion 24TB External Hard Drive is pure plug-and-play, able to come out of the box and immediately become your trusted backup drive. Mac users will have to reformat the drive in order to use it with Apple’s time Machine, but that’s an exceptionally easy and fast procedure. Seagate external hard drives have a well-earned reputation for reliability, and the 250,000-plus Amazon reviewers who give this model an average 4.6 star review are solid proof. But, as they say, things happen, and in that event Seagate’s Rescue Data Services are at the ready. This service is included in the price of the drive, and should your hard drive become corrupted or suffer physical damage, you can ship it to Seagate and their expert techs will either repair the drive or salvage the data and move it onto a new device to send back to you. You might be surprised at just how many files you have to back up, or maybe you have several smaller backup drives lying around and you’re looking for a way to consolidate them. The Seagate Expansion 24TB External Hard Drive is a perfect solution, and the $280 price running right now at Amazon is unbeatable. See at Amazon