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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But modern ones are faster, more stylish, and often more durable than their counterparts from a few years ago. If you want to get more than file storage out of the external hard drive on your desk, try one like Seagate’s Backup Plus Hub.

If you only have a Windows computer, you could (carefully) reformat it to NTFS, but you would probably be better off getting a hard drive already formatted in NTFS or exFAT. Most such multi-bay devices are sold without the actual hard drives included, so you can install any drive you want (usually, 3. 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. It's shock, dust, and water-resistant and comes with a vivid orange bumper along its sides, so you don't have to worry about drops. In the case of these and single-platter-drive products, you're not meant to swap out the drive or drives inside.Instantly add space for more files, consolidate all of your files to a single location, or free up space on your computer's internal drive to help improve performance. Slightly rounded edges and ripples give the My Passport drive both the look and the feel of a consumer gadget.

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Available in capacities up to 16TB when we reviewed it, it has since added even higher volume, up to a monstrous 40TB. If you’re looking for a quick and easy backup process, it comes with WD Backup software for Windows and is compatible with Time Machine for Macs. It must also be plugged into the wall with a power adapter, so it’s not the easiest to tote around to different places. Since 2004, I have worked on PCMag’s hardware team, covering at various times printers, scanners, projectors, storage, and monitors. In contrast to the lightning-fast performance of top-tier SSDs, hard drives, often referred to as HDDs, truly shine when it comes to providing ample storage space without breaking the bank.

So, if you’ve got a top-notch NAS device for your home or business, going with these Seagate drives is a pretty smart move. Many such drives are designed to meet rigorous certification standards mandated by some corporations and government agencies. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. To help the connection of your appliance go smoothly, please watch our dishwasher or washing machine connection video. These drives are known for delivering a bang for your buck when it comes to storage, offering a solid gigabyte-to-dollar ratio.A desktop hard drive with a single platter-based mechanism inside, or a portable hard drive, is far more likely to make use of plain old USB instead. We separate the 4 constituent parts (polystyrene, plastic, wood and cardboard) at the depots then bale and compact the materials at our hub. But I'd like it to be of decent quality, if possible, and my budget is limited, so spending a ton more to put my own together in a case is a very poor option (and my luck with bring-your-own-drive external cases is terrible anyway).