Hard disk drives are cheap and offer plenty of capacity but they are bound to disappear in a not-so-distant future. Right now, the biggest portable hard disk drive has a capacity of 6TB ...

Its My Passport lineup is one of the most portable external hard drives out there ... and it’s also rather big and heavy, sitting at 32.6 ounces. Even so, if your primary interest is just ...

And whether I'm dealing with big photography files ... around that I've chosen it as the best portable option in my list of the best external hard drives currently on sale for creatives.

Spinning hard drives survive in this age of superfast portable SSDs due to their low cost per gigabyte, and the 6TB WD My Passport, Works with USB-C lists at a minuscule 3.2 cents per gig while ...

This palm-sized drive is super-fast, ultra-durable, universally compatible, and on sale for up to 31% off at Amazon.

That's a big bonus in my book ... That is still far more expensive than a standard portable hard disk drive of similar capacity but let's not forget why an external SSD is a better long run ...

(2) A magnetic disk drive that plugs into a USB port on a computer. Used for transport as well as backup and additional storage, portable hard drives rival the capacity of many internal hard drives.

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