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

Product Information

The Western Digital My Book, now available in capacities up to a whopping 22TB, can hold thousands of hours of video, or millions of MP3s or photos. Almost every recent drive we have reviewed supports USB, and the same goes for laptops and desktops.

With a good mix of capacity, pricing, and performance, it's a shoo-in as an Editors' Choice pick for desktop external hard drives. The SanDisk Professional G-Drive ArmorATD is a cost-effective, semi-rugged external hard drive available in capacities up to 5TB. The only case with hard drives where the USB standard matters much is if you connect a drive to an old-style, low-bandwidth USB 2. Home Retail Group Card Services Limited is registered in England (04007072) at 33 Holborn, London, United Kingdom, EC1N 2HT.I need an 8 TB external hard drive to back up a potentially failing disk and possibly use for backups for other machines. You must plug it into the wall with a power adapter, so it’s not easy to tote around different places.

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. External SSDs offer at least twice that speed and now, often much more, with typical results on our benchmark tests in excess of 400MBps for the slowest ones.Hard drive-based portables make use inside of the same kinds of platter-drive mechanisms used in laptops.