Top 10 Best External Hard Disk Brands

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Top 10 Best External Hard Disk Brands

• Created By Jenny Stapler

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• External portable hard disks have become a part
  of our life to handle those huge amounts of data
  we come across daily. The external storage
  technology has increased to a tremendous amount
  by enabling us to store, transfer and manage GBs
  and TBs of data easily.
• External portable hard disks come handy when you
  want to back up your large chunks of data
  (movies, music, videos, and other important
  files) and transfer to another system.
• There are many brands who manufacture external
  hard disks for a good value for money, but from
  the customer point of view, an external hard disk
  has to be reliable and durable. In todays post,
  we are going to list the top 10 best external
  hard disk brands which are reliable and is a must
  try.

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10. ioSafe

• There are many hard disk brands in the market
  which arent popular. One such company is ioSafe.
  ioSafe is a company which is known for its
  disaster protected hard drives, founded in the
  year 2004.
• Though, a recently new company in the hard disk
  sector, it has come up highly well and is
  performing extremely good in the segment.
  ioSafes storage systems are optimized for heat
  from the fire and complete submersion in fresh or
  saltwater with the ability to recover data
  located on the disk drive inside.
• This company in 2012 produced the worlds first
  disaster-proof rugged portable hard drives. The
  ioSafe Rugged Portable is one of the worlds
  finest external hard disk to store your data as
  it protects your data from extreme weather
  conditions.

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9. Buffalo Inc.

• Buffalo Inc. is a subsidiary of Melco Holdings
  located in Japan. They initially started as an
  audio equipment manufacturer and has now entered
  computer peripherals. Buffalo Inc. produces high
  quality external hard disks and storage drives.
• Buffalos external hard drives are shock
  resistance and are highly durable. Buffalo
  Technologies produces its external hard disks
  with the brand name MiniStation.
• The current portable hard disk models are
  MiniStation Thunderbolt, MiniStation Air,
  MiniStation DDR, MiniStation extreme and
  MiniStation with capacity from 500GB to 2TB.
• They give a manufacturer warranty of 3 years for
  most of its high-end external storage devices.

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8. LG

• In 2010, LG was the second largest producer of
  Televisions in the world. LG is known for its
  reliable electronic products such as
  refrigerators, televisions and mobile phones.
• Though, LG is relatively new to the external HDD
  and storage industry but has the capacity to win
  the battle with its superior electronic
  manufacturing technologies and skilled manpower.
• LG is also known to produce innovative, new and
  creative electronic products.
• Even in the external hard disk arena, LG has
  produced few ultra-thin external portable drives
  such as XD-7(Ultra-thin external hard drive),
  XD-7 USB 3.0(USB 3.0 ultra-thin external hard
  drive) and the XD-5 (Mini external hard drive).

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7. ADATA

• In 2007, ADATA was the 3rd largest DRAM
  manufacturer in the world with a market share of
  7.6 and the worlds 4th largest Flash-product
  manufacturer.
• ADATA is a memory and storage device manufacturer
  from Taiwan. The company creates colorful,
  durable and stylish external hard drives which
  are categorized into 4 categories and they are
  elite, choice, durable and classic.
• Each group has few models, for example, the
  durable group has models such as HD650 and HD710
  which are waterproof and shockproof.
• The hard drives are custom tailored with unique
  silicone material, military-grade shockproof and
  waterproof construction.

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6. Apple

• Apple is a company proudly known for its quality
  and long durability of its products especially
  the Apple iPhones.
• If you are an Apple Mac owner, then you should
  definitely go for Apples external storage
  devices rather than other brands out in the
  market.
• An Apple storage device has great durability and
  goes fine with your Mac device. AirPort Time
  Capsule is the name of the portable storage hard
  drives created by Apple and comes in two
  variations of 2TB and 3TB.

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5. Transcend

• Transcend is one of the leading and famous
  manufacturers of storage devices from Taiwan.
• They are the worlds third largest producer of
  flash drives. Similar to pen drives, Transcend
  has a history of reliable external hard disks.
• The models currently manufactured by Transcend
  for PC are StoreJet 25M3 (USB 3.0), StoreJet 25M2
  (USB 2.0), StoreJet 25H3 (USB 3.0), StoreJet 25H2
  (USB 2.0), StoreJet 25A3 (USB 3.0), StoreJet 25D3
  (USB 3.0), StoreJet 25D2 (USB 2.0), StoreJet 25S3
  (USB 3.0 Enclosure) and ESD400 Portable SSD (USB
  3.0).
• There are three other variations of external
  portable drives for Mac.

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4. Sony

• Sony is known for its quality and reliable
  electronic devices in the world. They are a
  leading manufacturer of electronic products like
  TVs, computers hardware, video games, and
  semiconductor devices.
• Though Sony is not a leading producer in the hard
  disk segment, Sony has come out good in terms of
  reliability and durability.
• Current Sony portable hard disk products are
  HD-SG5/B, HD-EG5/B, HD-E2/L, and HD-E1/B. Sony
  produces capacity ranging from 500GB to 2TB. Sony
  external hard disk with USB 3.0 supports up to a
  speed of 5GBps.

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3. Toshiba

• Toshiba is a leading Japanese electronic and
  electrical device manufacturer.
• They are the 4th largest in terms of revenue from
  the manufacture of the semiconductor. In 2009,
  Toshiba acquired the HDD business of Fujitsu.
• The Toshiba external hard disks models are
  Canvio Connect, Canvio Basics 3.0 and Canvio
  Slim with sizes ranging from 500GB to 2TB.

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2. Seagate

• Seagate is an American storage manufacturer. They
  are one of the leading external hard disk brands
  along with Western Digital. Seagate has produced
  many variations of external portable hard disks
  and is known to give the latest in storage
  technology.
• The drives of Seagates are known for their high
  performance and sleek designs. Seagate external
  hard disks have a capacity ranging from 500GB to
  4TB.
• The models produced by Seagate currently are
  Backup Plus Fast Portable Drive, Backup Plus Slim
  Portable Drive, Seven?? Portable Drive, Wireless
  Plus Mobile Storage, Wireless Mobile Storage,
  Backup Plus Fast SSD Portable Drive, Backup Plus
  Fast SSD Portable Drive, Backup Plus Slim
  Portable Drive for Mac and Expansion Portable
  Hard Drive.

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

• Western Digital Company is a reputable and
  reliable brand manufacturing portable external
  hard disks and storage devices.
• No external hard disk brands in the world are
  able to compete with the manufacturing output
  provided by WD.
• WD is one of the largest manufacturers of hard
  disks 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. It comes in variations of 500 GB, 1TB
  and 2TB. The external portable hard disks have
  features such as USB 3.0, cloud backup and
  password encryption.

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