Best external hard drives for back to school
Amp up your laptop or PC's hard drive space with an external disk
- — 06 February, 2012 16:00
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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Hitachi G-Drive Mini
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Western Digital My Book Live network storage device
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Hitachi G-Drive Slim 500GB
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Transcend SSD18C3
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Western Digital My Book Studio 3TB
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Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro Portable Drive (500GB)
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Seagate GoFlex Satellite
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QNAP TS-412 TurboNAS
Hitachi G-Drive Mini
Hitachi's G-Drive Mini is aimed at users who need a portable drive but don't want to sacrifice performance. Inside is a reasonably speedy 7200RPM 500GB drive: not as quick as an SSD, but faster than the majority of external drives on the market. If your laptop has FireWire 800 the G-Drive Mini is a great external drive, but using USB 2.0 doesn't reveal its full performance.
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- 6th Feb., 2012
- Campbell Simpson
- Hitachi
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- Price:
- $ 169.95
- Pros:
- Fast transfer speeds for an external drive
- Plenty of connection options
- Cons:
- High price at RRP
- Bulky enclosure
