Seagate Desktop, 8 TB, External Hard Drive HDD – USB 3.0 for PC Laptop and Mac and Two-year Rescue Services (STGY8000400), Black

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The DT2 isn't slim or portable like many external drives—in form, it’s a classic desktop spinning hard drive. Explore Comet and discover a constellation of products from washing machines and fridge freezers to air fryers, 4K TVs, laptops, consoles and more - it’s easy to find everything you need for your home in the Comet universe. Their total storage capacities are limited only by their number of available bays and the capacities of the drives you put in them. Depending on which RAID level you choose, you can prioritize capacity, speed, or data redundancy, or some combination thereof. Mainstream hard drives of 8TB capacity generally can’t fit into a very portable size, but the WD My Book is still a fairly compact unit that houses a 3.

In addition to their physical shape differences, USB ports on the computer side will variously support USB 3. A subset of drives come with essentially uncrackable AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption that you can engage. So, if you’ve got a top-notch NAS device for your home or business, going with these Seagate drives is a pretty smart move. Adding 8TB of storage should tide you over for years and years to come (and it’s the highest-capacity drive a PS4 can support). All are inter-compatible, and you won't see a speed bump from one versus the other in the hard drive world.

Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Slightly rounded edges and ripples give the My Passport drive both the look and the feel of a consumer gadget. As a desktop hard drive, it is not USB-powered, but instead must be plugged into its included AC adapter. com is a leading authority on technology, delivering lab-based, independent reviews of the latest products and services.

Argos Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority as a credit broker (713206), and works exclusively with the lender, Home Retail Group Card Services Limited trading as Argos Card and Argos Financial Services, who are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority to provide credit (716148). Being online means that sharing content is easy, too, but on the flip side, you can create separate private spaces on the drive for each person in your household. The 5TB WD My Passport is a product of the manufacturer's added effort to make a simple plastic box look attractive.It costs a tad more per gigabyte than much of its platter-based ilk, but less than SSDs of equivalent capacity. However, they also seem to generally put drives from much cheaper product lines into their externals.