Best Portable Hdd For Mac

Compare that with spinning drives; portable hard drives top out at 5TB, and desktop ones are easy to find in capacities in excess of 8TB.

REVIEWS FROM OUR LAB The Best External Hard Drives of 2018 Last updated October 5, 2018 1:00PM EST Laptop running out of storage space? Need to back up your photos and videos? From straightforward desktop drives to wireless SSDs that can offload footage from a drone camera, external storage is faster, cheaper, more versatile, and more stylish than ever.

We've outlined everything you should consider when adding storage along with the top drives we've tested, both flash- and platter-based. PCMag has been testing external hard drives since before consumer SSDs were even a thing. Our top picks are based not only on results from our rigorous benchmark tests, but also on our examinations of software features, drive durability, and overall value. We get it, you're rough on your equipment. Sometimes you break your $99 budget external hard drives before you've paid off the credit card you used to buy them. The 2TB CalDigit Tuff ($179.99) is hardy enough to survive the slings and arrows of business travel, even if you're a wildlife photographer or a foreman on a construction site.

It's able to take a hit, it's waterproof and dust-proof, and it's very affordable given the amount of storage you get. Put this all together, and it's enough for the Tuff to earn our latest Editors' Choice award for rugged hard drives. • Pros: Rated to survive 4-foot drops. Certified waterproof and dustproof. Comes with USB 3.0 and USB-C cables. • Cons: Warranty limited to two years.

SSD option is still unreleased. • Bottom Line: Not only is the CalDigit Tuff a rugged hard drive designed to survive extreme conditions, it's also a terrific value.

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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 8TB version of the Western Digital My Book ($249.99) can hold thousands of hours of video, or millions of MP3s or photos. It's backward-compatible with current and older Macs and Windows PCs, a plus right now as USB standards are changing. With a good mix of capacity, pricing, and performance, it's a shoo-in as our latest Editors' Choice for desktop external hard drives. • Pros: Comes in a variety of large capacities. Three-year warranty. • Cons: Requires external power adapter.

• Bottom Line: With a full 8TB for less than $250, the 8TB version of the Western Digital My Book is a deep well of affordable storage for your photos, music, videos, and more. Solid state drives like the 2TB Samsung Portable SSD T5 ($799.99) buck the 2.5-inch form factor of their portable hard drive predecessors. Since don't need to house a spinning platter, they're a whole lot smaller and easier to slip into a small pocket. While our capacious 2-terabyte test drive may be too expensive if you simply want to back up files from your laptop, its speed and capacity are suited to well-heeled digital packrats and graphics professionals. • Pros: Excellent performance.

Includes USB 3.0 and USB-C cables. Android-, Mac-, and Windows-compatible. • Cons: While a comparable good per-gigabyte value, the drive itself is expensive. • Bottom Line: Samsung's Portable SSD T5 drive has a speedy USB-C interface and plenty of reliable storage. It takes up about as much room in your pocket as a short stack of credit cards.

Rugged, portable, and trendy, are the obvious path these days to netting fast extra storage for your PC or Mac. And although it's not nearly the household name that SSD giant Samsung is, ADATA offers external drives that compete with the storage big-leaguers at aggressive prices.

A refresh of the we reviewed two years ago, the ADATA SE730H ($149.99 for the 512GB version we tested) introduces USB-C-to-USB-C data transfers with a potential ceiling of 10Gbps, over a USB 3.1 Gen 2 connection. It's compact, it's waterproof, and—best of all—it's fast, if not much faster than your typical external SSD. And, for the amount of storage space you're getting, it costs less than the 500GB version of our Editors' Choice, the ($164.99). • Pros: Spiffy look. Pocket-size, all-metal shell.

USB Type-C interface at both ends of cable. Fast performance.

Resists water, dirt, and dust. • Cons: Storage space tops out at 512GB. Not appreciably faster than USB 3.1 Gen 1 external SSDs. • Bottom Line: The chic, compact ADATA SE730H External SSD delivers speedy data transfers over USB Type-C-and you can dunk it or drop it as much as you like. The sheer variety of ports on the Akitio Thunder3 RAID Station ($369.99) means that you can use this external hard drive not only to store mountains of data, but also to connect nearly any peripheral you might have or want to buy in the future. This versatility joins several other selling points, including easily configurable RAID modes, the ability to disable the cooling fan, and a sturdy, well-designed enclosure to make it one of the best external RAID enclosures you can buy as long as you don't need screaming data-transfer speeds. • Pros: Excellent connectivity options and transfer speeds.