Tuesday 9 July 2013

5 Best Portable External Hard Drives

People prefer to have portable hard drives as those are light weight small devices with greater capacities which can be easily tucked away behind a monitor or stuffed in a drawer.  It’s one of the best options available for carrying a large amount of data.

Western Digital Elements Desktop


It gives you an easy-to-use and reliable way to increase the storage of one’s PC or Mac. It simply needs to be plugged in to a USB port for saving photos, music, video and files. As it’s a preformatted device, the user doesn’t require loading any software or CD. You can use it with Windows-based computers and reformat it for using with Macs. It is equipped with high performance with the transfer speed from 28MB per second to 38MB per second as it operates at 7200RPM.

Iomega Prestige


This portable stylish drive has strong aluminum construction with a stand to resist good shots without damage. The best part is that it can be used horizontally as well as horizontally as per the user needs.
It is also equipped with 8MB cache and data transfer speed of 25 MB to 20 MB.

LaCie Design by Neil Poulton


The LaCie hard disk with a sophisticated style delivers high-speed performance as a hard drive. This hard drive is rectangular in shape which gives it the look of a brick.  It can be connected via USB 2.0 ports, FireWire and eSATA and has the storage capacity of 1TB.  It works great with Hi-Speed USB 2.0 and can be setup by just plugging in to the port. This hard drive also offers customizable formatting to its users.

 Western Digital My Book 3.0


Recognized as one of the longest running product brand names in the storage market, the Western Digital My Book 3.0 comes with a glossy black book like covering. Its best feature is its super speed USB 3.0 interface which even breaks it free from the speed barriers faced by the USB 2.0 external hard drives available in the market.


Available in a sleek look, this hard drive is around two inches wide and seven inches tall. Its super speeds give the feel of an internal hard disk and not the external drive as it can be used for both storage and for daily purposes.

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex


This light weight hard drive weighs only 148 grams with 1 TB storage capacity and can be connected through both USB 2.0 and 3.0, FireWire 800 and eSATA. An installer is already loaded in the device which has various Seagate and Memeo utilities. With a simple reformatting, you can easily use it with windows PC or Mac.



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