Looking for a 1 or 2TB external hard drive for file dump, what’s the best value and most reliable option?
My dad has a pretty decent laptop (asus) but is running low on storage, and asked me (since I have a decent knowledge about and building computers) what to get. He just wants a terabyte (or maybe even two if it’s not a big price difference) external HDD for just dumping files. USB 3 is the only real requirement, other than that I was wondering what the best one is, speed is not that important but value for money and reliability is most important, it’s to last him years. Any info or opinions would be appreciated. Thanks!
Posted Nov 8, 2020, 10:35 PM UTC
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Western Digital (WD) makes some good external hard drives and pretty cheap, around 50-60 for 2tb. I know that some external hard drives comes with usb-c instead of USB-A 3.1 so just make sure that when buying it comes with an adapter if it is usb-c or you will have to pay extra for an adapter yourself, unless of course the laptop has a usb-c port.
I've been using the WD passports for years as infrequent/archive storage and have never had a problem.
Thanks, will check!