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
Transcend SSD18C3
Transcend's SSD18C3 is a USB 3.0 solid state drive that's small and attractive. However, it doesn't provide much of a speed upgrade over a traditional USB 3.0 hard drive and with a cost per gigabyte over $5, it's also very expensive.
- Review Date:
- Reviewer:
- Manufacturer:
- 2nd Aug., 2011
- Elias Plastiras
- Transcend
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- Price:
- $ 299.00
- Pros:
- Small
- Durable
- Attractive
- Cons:
- Expensive
- Annoying backup software
- Not super fast
