Seagate BarraCuda 20TB 7200 CMR hard disk is cheapest, great for backup and more

A Seagate internal hard disk drive (HDD) is back on sale for the lowest price, so if you are looking to get something like that, take a look at it as it has been discounted to just $230 (purchase link under the specs list below).

Paying $230 for a 20 TB HDD means that you will be paying ~$11.5 per TB which makes it a very enticing deal. Even though this is a BarraCuda-branded model, which is typically associated with entry-level models, this 20 TB SKU is based on CMR or Conventional Magnetic Recording technology. That means the disk can be used for some good amount of robust heavy duty usage too unlike SMR or Shingled Magnetic Recording variants.

We do not recommend that you run it 24x7 like dedicated NAS drives but it can still be used for long hours at a time. Besides that, this 20TB BarraCuda can be great as a backup drive as well. The technical specs of the Seagate BarraCuda 20TB are given below:

• Form Factor: 3.5-inch
• Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s (SATA III)
• Spindle Speed: 7200 RPM
• Maximum Sustained Data Transfer Rate: Up to about 190 MB/s
• Cache (Buffer): 256 MB DRAM
• Power-On Hours (per year): 2400
• Workload Rate Limit (TB/Year): 120
• Load/Unload Cycles: 600,000
• MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures): 1,000,000 hours
• Operating Temperature Range: 5°C to 60°C
• Non-operating Temperature Range: –40°C to 70°C
• Power Consumption (Active / Idle / Standby): Approximately 8 W / 5 W / 0.7 W

The drive comes with a two-year warranty. Get it at the link below:

• Seagate BarraCuda ST20000DM001 20TB 7200 RPM 512MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive Bare Drive: $229.99 (Newegg US)

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