Holiday gift guide: best external hard drives

The best hard drives and thumb drives from Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital and LaCie

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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Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Ultra-Portable Drive 1.5TB

A stylish-looking USB 3.0 drive that packs a whopping 1.5TB capacity, but in write performance it lags behind the competition.

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  • 24th Sept., 2010
  • Melissa J. Perenson
  • Seagate
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  • Pros:
  • First 1.5TB portable to market offers gargantuan capacity, includes USB 3.0 connector
  • Cons:
  • Connector modules can be unwieldy, must remove module to insert into a dock

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