Holiday gift guide: best external hard drives
The best hard drives and thumb drives from Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital and LaCie
- — 25 November, 2010 15:54
The holiday season is a perfect time to get your media library in order (after all, there are only so many digital photos and movies that your PC can store). If you'd like to make backups of all your data - or simply require a storage device for all your media - the following products will not disappoint. These are some of the best external hard drives on the market from trusted brands including Hitachi, Western Digital and Seagate.
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Western Digital My Book Studio
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LaCie Rikki Go (500GB)
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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-Portable Drive 1.5TB
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Buffalo DriveStation HD-HXU3
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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Net
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Hitachi LifeStudio Desk Plus (2TB)
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Western Digital My Passport Essential SE
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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk (3TB)
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Clickfree Wireless Backup (500GB)
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Kingston DataTraveler 310 (256GB)
LaCie Rikki Go (500GB)
The LaCie Rikki Go is arguably the most stylish portable hard drive on the market. It's durable, tiny and comes with handy software. Recommended.
- Review Date:
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- Manufacturer:
- 17th Sept., 2010
- Chris Jager
- LaCie
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- Price:
- $ 129.00
- Pros:
- Stylish, rugged and ultraportable design, quiet operation, comes with a year's worth of free online storage (10GB)
- Cons:
- Dodgy USB cable, a bit slow with small file transfers
