The Best External Hard Disk Brand On The Market

Externally portable hard disks have become a part of our lives to handle large amounts of data daily. External storage technology has grown enormously to store easily, transfer, and manage GB and TB data. External portable hard disks are effective when you want to back up and transfer large amounts of your data (movies, music, videos and other important files) to other systems. Many brands produce external hard disks for good value for money, but an external hard disk has to be reliable and durable from the customer’s point of view. In today’s post, we list the top 5 best external hard disk brands that are reliable, and a must-try.

1. Seagate

Seagate American Storage Manufacturer. They are one of the leading external hard disk brands, including Western Digital. Seagate has produced a wide variety of external portable hard disks and is known as the latest in storage technology. Seagate drives are known for their high functionality and fun design. Seagate’s external hard disks have a capacity of 500 GB to 4 TB. The models produced by Seagate are Backup Plus Fast Portable Drive, Backup Plus Slim Portable Drive, Seven Portable Drive, Wireless Plus Mobile Storage, Wireless Mobile Storage, Backup Plus Quick SSD Portable Drive, Backup Plus Quick, Backup Plus Quick And drives for extended portable hard drives.

2. WD (Western Digital Company) and HGST (formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies)

Western Digital is a reputable and reliable brand manufacturing portable external hard disk and storage devices. No external hard disk brand in the world can compete with the production output supplied by WDC. WD is one of the largest hard disk manufacturers in the world. As we write this post, Western Digital has three portable hard disks – WD Elements Portable, My Passport Ultra and My Passport Ultra Metal. WD manufactures external hard disks for both PC and Mac. External portable hard disks have features like USB 3.0, cloud backup and password encryption.

Hitachi is known for its reliable external hard disks. In 2012, Western Digital valued Hitachi Global Storage Technologies at 3.9 billion in cash and 25 million shares of WD’s common stock valued at approximately 0.9 billion. HGST now manufactures external hard disks with the brand name Turo.

3. Toshiba

Toshiba is a leading Japanese manufacturer of electronic and electrical equipment. Toshiba Fujitsu’s HDD business was the fourth largest in 2009 in terms of revenue from semiconductor manufacturing. Toshiba’s external hard disk models are Canvio Connect, Canvio Basic 3.0 and Canvio Slim 500GB to 2TB in size.

4. Exceed

Transcend is one of the leading and famous manufacturers of storage devices from Taiwan. They are the third-largest manufacturer of flash drives in the world. Like pen drives, Transcend has a history of reliable external hard disks. Models currently built by Transcend for PC are Storjet 25M3 (USB 3.0), Storjet 25M2 (USB 2.0), Storjet 25H3 (USB 3.0), StoreJet 25H2 (USB 2.0), Storjet 25A 3 (USB 3.0), Storjet 25D3 (USB 3.0), Storjet 25D2 (USB 2.0), Storjet 25S3 (USB 3.0 Enclosure) and ESD 40000 Portable SSD (USB 3.0). There are three more variants of external portable drives for Mac.

5. Apples

Apple is a company that is proud of the quality and longevity of its products, especially the Apple iPhone. If you own an Apple Mac, you should definitely take Apple’s external storage devices more than any other brand on the market. An Apple storage device has great durability, and your Mac device is just fine. Airport Time Capsule is the name of the portable storage hard drive manufactured by Apple, and it comes in two variants of 2TB and 3TB.