Everybody loves a bargain, and getting value for money for the best external hard drives on the market isn’t necessarily difficult to do, regardless of how much you’re looking to spend. My experience is that retailers (particularly online ones) run frequent discounts on all types of models across all price ranges. Researching the best deals around can be time consuming, so check back to the site over time as I’ll keep it updated with the latest deals.
Things are changing all the time as manufacturers bring out new models using improved technology, but as a rule of thumb, you’re probably getting a great deal if you’re paying less than £65 for a 500GB drive, less than £80 for a 750GB drive or £90 for a 1TB drive (taking into account other factors such as data transfer speeds, portability, brand name, etc). As I say, these are just a guide at time of writing, and standard prices for drives will invariably continue to fall in line with component costs, emergence of new technologies, release of new models, etc.
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Buffalo Ministation 500GB USB 2.0 Portable Hard Disk Drive
The Buffalo Ministation is the successor to the highly successful Juststore Slimline model and is truly one of the simplest external hard drives available on the market today. It’s about the size of a wallet and weighs only 165g, making it incredibly portable. It is a USB powered, plug’n’play device that will allow you to take your music, films, photos and documents with you, and sports a file transfer rate of up to 480Mbps, meaning you’ll be able to back up and access you files in no time.
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Western Digital My Book Studio 2TB External Hard Drive
The Western Digital My Book Studio 2TB external hard drive is one of the best rated desktop external hard drives on the market that has been designed and developed for use with Macs specifically in mind… it is pre-formatted out of the box for use with Mac OS, hooks up to Time Machine without any bother and has a FireWire 800 connection for rapid data transfer. Not only that but it looks the part too, particularly this model with the “streamlined aluminium enclosure”, and won’t look out of place happily sitting on your desktop without taking up much space.
All in all an excellent drive for Mac users…
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iStorage DiskGenie Pin Code Encrypted Hard Drive 640GB
The iStorage DiskGenie encrypted hard drive range (also now known as the DiskG range – thanks for that iStorage branding team!) is a series of portable external hard drives designed with security as a key feature – this is delivered through PIN code access (using a personalised access code that you choose on installation of between 6 and 16 characters). You can get pretty much any size of drive up to 1TB, including the 640GB device reviewed here. The drive’s security credentials are further confirmed by it being the only portable hard drive to have been awarded the government CESG CCTM accreditation. All in all, this is the drive for you if you need that extra level of security for any files you have stored on it.
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Best rugged external hard drives
It’s not unusual to hear horror stories where people have dropped their external hard drive only to find that it simply won’t work again when they come to use it. Not so with rugged external hard drives – surviving a mere drop or knock is child’s play to these hard men of the data storage. They laugh in the face of fire, take on all types of weather, even hold their breath under water for hours on end, and still fire up no questions asked.
So, if you think you need that extra level of protection, whether it’s because you live or work in an extreme environment, like to take your data with you bungee jumping and scuba diving or just find yourself dropping your drive every 5 minutes, these are for you…
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Freecom 56057 1TB Tough Drive USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
The Freecom 56057 1TB Tough Drive is a rugged portable external hard drive built to survive the pressures of everyday life on the go. This drive sports a hard working internal anti-shock frame and a unique soft silicon cover for added protection, making it tough enough to survive the inevitable drops and bashes when you take your external hard drive out and about. This version of the Freecom Tough Drive can hold up to 1TB of data, putting 76 hours of standard video, up to 250,000 songs and/or about 200,000 photos in the palm of your hand where ever you are. Plus there are some cool features like the integrated USB cable and internal cooling system that means a fan is not required… all in all a great, robust, high performing portable external hard drive.
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ioSafe Solo 1 TB Fireproof and Waterproof External Hard Drive
The guys at ioSafe describe the Solo 1TB external hard drive as “the safest, most advanced hard drive in the world”. It’s a big claim to live up to, but one that the Solo does an impressive job of aspiring to. When you buy this drive, you’re getting so much more than just a rugged external hard drive, with the patented fire and water proofing technology, access to data recovery service and unique airflow cooling system the ioSafe Solo brings, on top of a great looking, top functioning external hard drive.
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A-Data Series SH93 2.5 inch 1TB Portable Hard Disk Drive
The A-Data Series SH93 2.5 inch 1TB Portable Hard Disk Drive is a truly ruggedised, portable external hard drive that has passed the most stringent water proofing and military grade shock testing before coming to market. It’s a perfect external hard drive if you plan to be working in more challenging environments than an office, or if you just need an external hard drive that will survive the bumps, bashes and scrapes of everyday life. This model can hold up to 1TB of data, which means 76 hours of standard video, up to 250,000 songs and about 200,000 photos… plenty for most people! On top of that this is one of the coolest looking external hard drives on the market today.
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LaCie Rugged Mini USB 3.0/ USB 2.0 500GB Hard Disk Drive
The LaCie Rugged Mini USB 3.0/2.0 500GB external hard drive is one of LaCie’s most popular external hard drives, developed as a portable rugged hard drive with 500GB of storage capacity. The orange rubber case makes gives this drive a highly distinctive look, as well as protecting it from bumps, scrapes and drops from up to 1.2 metres. This drive also sports protection from rain, pressure and shocks, making it ideal for both the typical external hard drive owner who just wants to throw it in a bag without having to worry about it working next time they need it, and for those who need a more robust model for a more extreme line of work or play.
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Verbatim 500GB Store n Go USB 3.0 External Hard Drive
The Verbatim 500GB Store n Go USB 3.0 external hard drive is a highly portable USB 3.0 drive, capable of providing “superspeed” data transfer speeds up to 5 GB/s. Weighing in at just 150g and just 12 by 8 by 1.5 cm, this smart little drive has been designed to come with you to work, college, wherever you need your files. There’s a clever green energy saving button that will suspend the drive from spinning when not in use, and multiple sleep settings, meaning your drive won’t be sapping power from your laptop when it doesn’t need it, and whilst it doesn’t have the biggest capacity on the market, the 500GB provided should be plenty for most.
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Top 5 1TB and 2TB external hard drives
Sometimes it’s true – size does matter. Where some people can get away with a regular, run-of-the-mill size external hard drive – say 500GB or less – some need more. A lot more. You might just have a whole heap of high resolution photos, or a mega HD movie collection. Or you’re looking to back up a significant amount of data across a number of laptops, computers, and other drives. Or it could be that you need to run some memory sapping graphics rendering or video editing software and your laptop just won’t be able to handle it. Whatever the case, you need to think BIG. When it comes to external hard drives, big means 1TB and upwards. The drives I’ll focus on in this post will be mainly 1 – 2TB, but you can get some real monster drives out there if you really think you’ll need them!
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