Best external hard drives for back to school

Amp up your laptop or PC's hard drive space with an external disk

If you've got an older PC or laptop and need some more storage space for school -- for some movies or music, or if you've just bought a new digital camera or camcorder for class -- an easy way to fix this is to buy an external hard drive. We've listed a couple of reliable models for a variety of machines.

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QNAP TS-412 TurboNAS

The QNAP TS-412 TurboNAS is a 4-bay network storage device with a stack of useful features. Not only can it be used as a storage and backup point for your data, it can also stream multimedia files locally and remotely. It can even be used as a Web server. It's a good choice for home and small business users.

  • Review Date:
  • Reviewer:
  • Manufacturer:
  • 12th April, 2011
  • Elias Plastiras
  • QNAP
  • Rating:
  • Price:
  • 4.25
  • $ 549.00
  • Features:
  • Other features: Four hot-swappable drive bays; RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, JBOD, single disk; RAID expansion and recovery, iSCSI target, file server, Web server, database server, printer server, FTP server, UPnP media server. Power supply: AC.
  • What's Hot:
  • Huge array of features, hot-swappable drive bays, relatively easy to use
  • What's Not:
  • Some features could be implemented better

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