Seagate in Lebanon.

Seagate drive types

Enterprise hard drives

Built for servers, NAS units and workstations that run around the clock. We carry enterprise drives in 2, 4, 6, 10, 12, 18, 20, 22 and 24 TB capacities. In a desktop, an enterprise drive makes a large, durable home for backups, media libraries and project archives.

Surveillance hard drives

Designed for CCTV and video recorders that write video continuously, in 2, 6, 8, 14 and 16 TB, including the SkyHawk AI 14 TB. Choose these for camera systems rather than for a PC's game library.

Hard drive or SSD?

Hard drives give you the most terabytes for the space, but they are much slower than SSDs. In a PC, put Windows and your games on an NVMe SSD and use a Seagate hard drive as a second drive for files and backups.

Before you buy

• Size: these are 3.5-inch drives. Check that your case has a 3.5-inch bay; some compact and showcase cases have few or none.
• Connection: check the interface on each listing and that your motherboard has a free port; the builder counts SATA ports.
• Noise: enterprise drives are built for throughput and can be louder than desktop drives.
• Capacity: buy for your next few years of data, not just today's.

Choosing a capacity

• 2 to 6 TB: backups and media for a home PC.
• 8 to 14 TB: large photo and video libraries, small NAS units, multi-camera CCTV.
• 16 to 24 TB: big NAS arrays, servers and archives.

Using hard drives in a NAS or CCTV system

For NAS units, use matching drives of the same capacity in each bay and check that the drive is supported by the NAS maker. For CCTV, choose a surveillance drive and size it by the number of cameras and how many days of footage you want to keep.

Seagate in your build

Compare with SSDs and other drives in SSDs and storage, and see Kingston and Transcend for SSDs. Check that your case has drive bays, then build your PC with free assembly and testing. Some Seagate drives are priced on request and quoted by email; delivery is across Lebanon, cash on delivery.