Best external desktop and portable hard disk drives of 2016

By Desire Athow

Even in a world replenished by the wonders of cloud computing, the external disk drive, or HDD for short, has its place. With desktops on the wane and laptops favoring quick and mobile SSDs over high capacities, our virtual file cabinets are running out of space for not only our original files but our backups as well.

All things considered, you don’t need to shell out a monthly subscription fee for iCloud or OneDrive when you can simply purchase an external HDD. Not only is it more affordable in the long-run, but you can get more space for less than even a solid state drive. With the right external hard drive like, say, Seagate’s colossal 10TB Barracude Pro, you’ll be able to store all of your important files without compromise, no Internet connection required.

The question remains however: how do you know which external HDD is best for you? Luckily, we’re here to help. In the following list, we’ll discuss external hard drives that are both powerful and premium, affordable yet functional and even a handful that play friendly with the cloud. Let’s begin, shall we?

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  Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components