TOP TEN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE 2014

Many of times we all have our information stored on our computers and never keep a backup copy of it. When our computers crashes we lose all the data stored in it. So that’s why we need to get external hard drives to save our data. External hard drives are very useful to store data and backup files. Most of the external hard drives are portable and small. That’s why I made a list of the top ten External Hard Drives for 2014.  In tenth place we have the Toshiba Canvio Slim II (1TB) this hard drive is very small and portable and is compatible with both Mac and PC. It has a transfer speed of 5400 rpm and uses a 3.0 USB cable, the Toshiba Canvio Slim II comes at a price of $100 US. In ninth we have the Toshiba Canvio Connect (750GB), it is a fast, capacious hard drive that fits in a coat pocket. The USB 3.0 drive comes with 10GB of cloud storage and a Pogo Plug PC utility that makes your files available on the Internet. The cables it is compatible with are: USB, USB 2.0, SATA, USB 3.0 this cables offer a transfer rate reaching 5400 rpm, this hard drive cost about $110 US. On eight place we have the SanDisk Connect Wireless Media Drive (32GB) SSD. This is a wireless storage accessory for your digital devices that gives you just a bit more storage. The SanDisk Connect is a pocket able flash-based wireless media drive that can be used for quick trips and jaunts away from reliable cellular-based Internet access. Because it is SSD it comes at a price of $80 US for 32 GB. In the seventh place we have Promise Pegasus R4 is a big metal box with four removable drive sleds in the front, with power and access lights, and a perforated panel for cooling duties. In the back the drive has a pair of 10Gbps Thunderbolt ports, a Kensington lock port, cooling fan exhaust, and a standard 3-pin power port. The drive's internal power supply means that you won't have to find space for an external power brick, which saves a little space and makes it more convenient to move the drive to another Mac or PC. The Promise Pegasus R4 of 4 TB comes at a price of $1999 US. In sixth place ewe have the G-Technology G-Dock ev with Thunderbolt it looks like a standard desktop RAID drive, with two drive enclosures slightly protruding out of slots in the front face of the chassis. This offers a transfer speed of 7200 rpm with thunderbolt and USB 3.0 cables. It comes at a price of $660 US for 2000 GB. In fifth is the Buffalo Drivestation DDR 2TB (HD-GD2.0U3) this hard drive is an innovative take on the external desktop-class hard drive. Buffalo has added DDR3 system memory to a spinning hard drive in one chassis to give us a non-Flash hybrid drive this is faster than regular spinning hard drives, but a lot less expensive than SSD-based solutions. Supports USB, USB 2.0, SATA, and USB 3.0 cables and offers a transfer speed of 7200 rpm, and this hard drive cost $120 US. In fourth place is the Seagate Wireless Plus this hard drive offers carrying your entire media library. It's a 1TB hard drive with a built-in battery, media server, and Wi-Fi router, so you can share videos, photos, and music on the road, no internet access needed. It uses USB 3.0 and SATA cables and offers a transfer speed of 5400 rpm. This hard drive cost $200 US. In third place we have the LaCie 5big. This one is a Thunderbolt Series desktop-class external drive gives you a huge 20TB of storage, available instantly. It's the drive to use when you need constant access to all your work or project data. It is used by It is used by large business because it is 20 TB it cost $1900 US. In second place is the LaCie Rugged USB 3.0 Thunderbolt (120GB SSD) with this hard drive is the fastest rugged portable storage for now. It uses USB 3.0 Thunderbolt and offer fast transfer speeds. This solid-state drive (SSD) is made for a Mac, but is strong enough for a PC. Solid-state drives are a little pricey on a GB-per-dollar basis, but the LaCie drive totally makes up for it in speed and flexibility it costs $250 US for 120 GB. And finally the best external hard drive now is the LaCie Little Big Disk Thunderbolt (1TB SSD). This is the latest version of the aluminium-clad thoroughbred series of external solid-state drives (SSDs), keeping a single user's data easily accessible at a moment's notice. With its Thunderbolt interface, it's one of the fastest drives ever tested, even rivalling a multi-mechanism RAID array costing twice as much. This SSD External hard drive comes at a price of $1000 US.