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NewEgg.com is selling the Seagate 14TB external hard disk for $179.99 + tax and we have found it to be the best deal around. You can buy this directly from newegg.com and they will send a 128GB SD card as a gift too.
This will cost you about $14 per terabyte after taxes. We have ordered one and will use this drive ourselves for backups of our photos and videos and in our NAS setup. Yes, we are moving towards creating our own NAS (home-based network storage) to save cloud storage costs.
I am not sure why the price of a 14TB drive is cheaper than the 12 TB drive. You will find that a 12TB HDD or even 10TB HDD drive sells for about $250. Maybe the 14TB hard disks are not made anymore and hence Seagate is trying to sell off the leftover stock.
Whatever the reason, we are buying it and hope to have a useful life of at least 3 years. Note that we say 3 years because all hard drives have a limited life like batteries. They do fail at some point. Some fail in 1 year and others in 3-5 years. So, you should keep taking backups.
Is it Cheaper than Google Drive or Dropbox?
This will be cheaper than paying for Google Drive or Dropbox if you consider the per-year storage cost.
We own Google Pixel phones which used to come with unlimited photo storage until they abruptly stopped it last year. Now, we are forced to buy Google Drive space which costs $10/ month for 2 TB storage per month per user.
Even Dropbox costs the same as a drive.
If you are seriously considering creating a storage option at your home due to the higher costs of cloud storage (like Microsoft Drive, Google Drive, or Dropbox), we would recommend this external device which can be connected to an old laptop or computer to create a self-hosted Drive at your own home.
Other sellers
Amazon is selling this 14TB Seagate expansion drive for the same price of $179.99 but without the free SD card. Interestingly, the seller on Amazon is Newegg Business.
Costco has the same hard drive for about $199.99 but is showing it as out of stock at this time.
One of the Reddit users reported that Costco had a minimum sale price of $149.99 in late 2023 for the same item. We could not find it on Costco at this time.
Samsclub which usually carries the same deals as Costco is not showing any hard disk data storage deals in 10TB or more space.
Best Buy has this drive for sale at $300+
