Hamish Hayward
Keep your data backed up with an external hard drive.
Best External Hard Drives? - This is our list of top 5 external hard drives in 2016, here you can find very best external hard drives under 50, under 100, under 200 or more expensive
The best portable hard drive is slimmer and faster than the competition. We spent almost 70 hours on research and testing portable hard drives to find the 2TB Seagate Backup Plus Slim. It doesn't flex under pressure and boasts a comparatively low failure rate. (But don't get the 4TB version-it's less reliable.)
The world around us has gone digital. We no longer need storage cabinets full of paper files or to wait a week or even an hour to have pictures developed. Everything from music to scrapbooks and movies now fits on memory cards and hard drives.
We review and chart the top 10 best portable hard drives Other than the overall price, there are a couple of other things that you should look out for when buying a portable hard drive.
When it comes to external hard drives, it all boils down to two things - cost, and size. What exactly are you paying for? - disk space. In layman terms, computer data storage. The more space an external hard drive offers, the more expensive it will be.
