Seagate Desktop, 8 TB, External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac and Two-year Rescue Services (STGY8000400), Black

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Sporting a tasteful silver-and-black chassis, the LaCie Mobile Drive (2022) is a mildly redesigned version of the company's external hard drive that we reviewed in March 2019. Mainstream hard drives of 8TB capacity generally can’t fit into a very portable size, but the WD My Book is still a fairly compact unit that houses a 3. OTG connectorUSB - C interface cable + USB - A to C connector, directly connect the drive to your mobile phone and access your files immediately;4.

High Speed TransmissionHigh transmission speed is suitable for applications with large amounts of data and fast file transmission. As a spinning (5,400rpm) platter drive, its speed can't compare with an SSD, but it should work well for travelers or mobile workers who need lots of capacity for the spend. With a good mix of capacity, pricing, and performance, it's a shoo-in as an Editors' Choice pick for desktop external hard drives.

You pay a premium for a secure hard drive, but with one you can rest assured that your data won't be stolen. I've also written a host of articles about astronomy, space science, travel photography, and astrophotography for PCMag and its past and present sibling publications (among them, Mashable and ExtremeTech), as well as for the PCMag Digital Edition. Save files in a single location or you can even free the space on the internal drive of your computer for better performance. Explore Comet and discover a constellation of products from washing machines and fridge freezers to air fryers, 4K TVs, laptops, consoles and more - it’s easy to find everything you need for your home in the Comet universe. Both manufacturers seem to have no way to determine which drive is which without opening and possibly completely shucking it.

Silent PC Review has been providing expert advice and detailed reviews of PCs and peripherals since 2002. Finding yourself with more saved games and downloaded content than your PlayStation or Xbox console’s internal storage can hold? as real users, posing a threat to a site’s security, so the site sometimes runs random security checks.Most of us need a large repository for our data files, including the scads of pictures we've taken over the years, music files, and those downloaded movies we've been meaning to watch. Depending on which RAID level you choose, you can prioritize capacity, speed, or data redundancy, or some combination thereof.

Still, while external SSDs are cheaper than they were a few years ago (see the best we've tested at the preceding link), they're far from a complete replacement for spinning drives. Avolusion offers an 8TB drive explicitly designed for plug-and-play use with gaming consoles, with one pre-formatted to work with PS4, PS4 Slim, and PS4 Pro consoles, and a separate product for Xbox One, Xbox One S, and Xbox One X. Almost every recent drive we have reviewed supports USB, and the same goes for laptops and desktops.If you're addicted to downloading videos and snapping up every game you can find online, chances are you need inexpensive, voluminous storage to house it all. The SanDisk Professional G-Drive ArmorATD is a cost-effective, semi-rugged external hard drive available in capacities up to 5TB. Its combination of solid performance, hardware encryption, and useful utilities makes the 5TB WD My Passport a strong contender for everyday backup of sensitive data or storing a massive collection of videos, photos, and documents. With a slew of protective features and boasting an impressive set of certifications, this PIN-authenticated external drive is easy for authorized users to access but impervious to attempts by outsiders to break in. WD Security software is included, too, along with an excellent three-year warranty for extra peace of mind.

How an external drive connects to your PC or Mac is second only to the type of storage mechanism it uses in determining how fast you'll be able to access data.

All are inter-compatible, and you won't see a speed bump from one versus the other in the hard drive world. These larger models are more expensive but also much more capacious—think 24TB or more (in that case, populated by two 12TB drive mechanisms).