Best External Hard Drives

Archive for the ‘Best For Value For Money’ Category

LaCie P’9230 2TB (Porsche Design) desktop drive review

 The LaCie P’9230 2TB (Porsche Design) external hard drive is a desktop drive, so typically built to stay in one place and not be carried about with you like a portable drive (see Starck designed portable hard drive from Lacie here). It...

Samsung S2 USB 2.0 1TB Ultraslim Portable Hard Drive Review

As it says on the box, the Samsung S2 is an “ultraslim” external hard drive, designed for portability. Whilst it weighs in at just under 200g, it can still hold 1TB of data which is plenty for most people, and is USB...

Western Digital My Passport Essential SE (1TB) review

The Western Digital My Passport Essential SE (1TB) is one of the best external hard drives available offering USB 3.0 data transfer speeds, and combines a huge 1TB disk capacity with exceptional portability (it is small, lightweight and USB powered). With a...

Buffalo DriveStation 1TB review

The Buffalo DriveStation 1TB external hard drive is known as one of the simplest best external hard drives to install and use on the market. With a 1TB memory, you’ll be able to back up a considerable number of files, videos (up...

Toshiba Stor.e Partner review

The Toshiba PA4272E-1HE0 Stor.e external hard drive offers a quality, value for money product from a good brand name you can trust. This 500GB model can hold up to 142,000 photos, up to 131,000 songs, up to 410 videos and a huge...

Getting value for money

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...