Seagate Clears Out 22TB Stock at 2 Cents Per GB, Now Cheaper Than a No-Name Drive

This article features deals sourced directly by Gizmodo and produced independently of the editorial team. We may earn a commission when you buy through links on the site. At a certain point, paying for cloud storage every month stops making sense. Google One charges $9.99 a month for 2TB, iCloud charges the same. The Seagate Expansion 22TB external drive costs $499 on Amazon, which works out to roughly 2 cents per gigabyte, a one-time purchase that stores eleven times what either cloud plan offers at its 2TB tier with no monthly fee attached to it ever. The Seagate Expansion HDD is a plug-and-play desktop drive that connects over USB 3.0 and requires no software installation or formatting to get started on Windows. Mac users need to reformat for Time Machine compatibility, which takes a few minutes and is a one-time process. Drag-and-drop file saving works immediately out of the box, and both Windows and Mac recognize the drive automatically without any driver installation. The USB 3.0 interface handles read speeds up to 120 MB/s, which is fast enough to transfer a 4K movie in under a minute and move a full photo library in the time it takes to make a coffee. The 7,200 RPM spindle