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Best external drives of 2017

Loknath Das by Loknath Das
August 24, 2017
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External drives are a vital piece of hardware for backing up your data or copying a project from your PC to take with you. Anyone who uses a desktop or laptop computer needs one.

To help you sift through the stacks of external storage options, we’ve combed through our reviews of both external hard disks and SSDs to pick the top drives we’ve tested. We’ll also walk you through what you need to know to buy the best external drive for your needs.

Updated 8/23/17 to reflect the addition of the Samsung T5, which nabs our best external performance drive pick, bumping the Sandisk Extreme 900 to runner-up in that category.

[ Further reading: We tear apart a hard drive and SSD to show you how they work ]

Here are our top picks:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Best external backup drive
  • Best external performance drive
  • What you need to know before you buy
  • How we tested
  • Our external drive reviews

Contents

  • 1 Best external backup drive
          • 1.0.0.0.1
      • 1.0.1 Runner-up
          • 1.0.1.0.1

Best external backup drive

WD My Passport 4TB

PCWORLD RATING

$109.99MSRP $139.99

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Lots of storage for less than the competition, attractive styling, and good performance with small files highlight this USB 3.0 portable hard drive. An excellent bargain. Read PCWorld’s full review

Our pick for best portable external backup drive for 2017 is Western Digital’s My Passport 4TB drive. Although it’s a tick or two slower than other backup drives (like our runner-up, for example) in sequential file writing (think copying movie files), it does better at writing small files (think hundreds of Word or Excel documents.) It’s not flashy or super-fast, but for most people who only whip it out once a month to run backups and then shove it back into a drawer, those things don’t matter as much as the capacity, price, and reasonable performance. (Read our full review.)

Runner-up

Seagate Backup Plus Portable

PCWORLD RATING

$139.00MSRP $159.99

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on Amazon

If capacity and portability are your primary concerns, and the Backup Plus Portable fits up to 5TB in pretty much a standard 2.5-inch USB external package. It’s fast with large files, but on the slow side with small ones. Regardless, it’s a worthy drive that gives you more space for your movies and games. Read PCWorld’s full review

Our runner-up for this popular category is Seagate’s slightly larger and somewhat faster Backup Plus Portable. Like the WD above, it’s a USB 3.1 Gen 1 (5Gbps) drive. It tops out at 5TB in a single drive and can also be had in 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB capacities. There’s even a “fast” 4TB version that uses two hard drives in RAID for more performance.

In our tests of the 4TB version, we found the Seagate to be slightly faster with large file transfers (think movies) but worse with small file transfers (think Office documents). It’s still a worthy runner-up, though. (Read our full review.)

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