Portable hard drives?

Cokey

Hi.
I'm looking to buy a portable hard drive. A terabyte for sure. But here's the problem. Prices on these drives, all the same size, vary almost $150 dollars?!

So tell me. How is a $113 drive different from a $250 drive, if they are both a terabyte? They're all USB. Is this a brand thing, or is one really over a hundred dollars better?

Please help!

Answer
Without knowing which ones you are looking at it is hard to say.
But generally price will indicate the products quality.
You are entrusting your data to this device so choose carefully.

Portable Hard Drives?

Lan Hikari

Did anyone notice that portable hard drive prices increase by about 50% this year? I bought a WD 1TB MyPassport last year from Best Buy for $99. I was just shopping for another one today and the cheapest I could find it was for $149. Anyone know why?

Answer
Nearly half of the world's hard drives are manufactured in Thailand. Due to months of flooding and natural disaster hard drive manufacturing has been disrupted. Less supply means demand goes up and so do prices.

$149 is still a lot of money though. You could definitely find something at about the $99 dollar range if you were to wait for a sale or something.

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What is the best recommended portable external hard drive on the market?

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Sam

I'd done some looking around on Newegg, Bestbuy, and Amazon for prices on portable external hard drives. The prices look affordable, but the customer reviews put me on edge. Some had said the hard drives (specifically the Seagate Ultra Portable 1 terabyte drive) caused their computer to crash with Windows 7. Others found the (Seagate) drives were poorly constructed and were useless in three months. What are some great drives for the prices these days?

Answer
WD(western digital) is usually good and there passports are good also. The 500gb here http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Essential-Portable/dp/B0041OSAZS/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1306477962&sr=8-3

Or a 1tb http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Passport-Essential-Portable/dp/B0041OSQ9S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1306477962&sr=8-1. They are also usb 3.0 and 2.0

Where can I get a cheap portable hard drives?

J-Rod

I want a portable hard drive to take my files, pics and movies with me when I travel, so where is a place to get good quality external portable hard drives for a decent price?

Answer
www.newegg.com
www.tigerdirect.com
www.amazon.com

would check out there first

good luck

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