TB External Hard Drive

There is much less competition in the 1.5TB external hard drive market today than there is on any other size class. That is because while the HDD sizes grew slowly and steadily from 80 GB HDDs to 160 GB and then to 500 GB and 1 TB once that 1 TB mark speed of technological development went into over drive. For a very long time you had the 1TB hard drives and they were extremely expensive and then the price just dropped out of the sky and we saw the 3TB coming in to take to high price spot. But it didn’t stay there for more the a couple of months because it quickly became an upper mid-range product as the 5 terabyte drive came to be. But less you forget 1 terabyte HDD is still huge for what the average consumer needs and increasing that to the 1.5 TB external hard drive should be more than sufficient and you can still keep the low prices of the 1TB HDD.

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Of course less competition also means that all but the essential 1.5 TB external hard drive products are not on the market. Seagate is present with its Free Agent Go Flex ready external hard drives range and that Go Flex ready means that you get to use not only the USB 3.0 cable that comes with the product but also, by upgrading to any of the Go Flex cables you can use it via FireWire, eSATA or even USB 2.0. What the Go Flex technology means is that the interface of the hard drive as well as the plug in is compatible with any of the connection technologies mentioned. It is the compact version of the 1.5TB external hard drive world and at 5.3 x 3.5 x 0.9 inches and 5.3 ounces it is the most mobile and safe hard drive you could get.

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Better yet, you could get the big brother of the Seagate Free Agent, the 1.5 TB external hard drive Seagate Expansion. It is the desktop model so it needs to be plugged in, but that 3.5” HDD is guaranteed to be the most reliable hard drive, great for keeping that music collection or those photos you absolutely want to have at your disposal for the next 20 years or so. And the interesting bit is that Seagate have actually thought it through when they created this external hard disk because it is the only one on the market with a good visual design concept so you can be happy to have this 1.5 TB external hard drive on your desk.

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Western Digital however have obviously not given the list bit thought when they created their only 1.5 TB external hard drive WD Elements. It is a simple big, black box that sits on your desk. However, and this is the part where you might just forgive them for that blunder, this is the only external HDD that will run at 7200 RPM and also one of the extremely few that have a 16 MB buffer. So it is actually two times as fast as the fastest HDD available a mere 4 years ago. And even compared with today’s HDDs, internal HDDs which are the fastest and most reliable, the WD Elements stands its ground. So it may not be the most aesthetically pleasing 1.5TB external hard drive and it may need to be plugged it to a AC adapter to, but it is the fastest, most reliable and still can be called mobile although it’s mostly a boy only toy.

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And last but not list, the Iomega Prestige 1.5TB external hard drive, is the one drive specifically designed for Apple so it needs to receive the proper credit. Also it is the only external HDD that comes with its own stand. And the 8 MB cache is certain to allow you to stream your movies or music directly from it even while copying another file. It has also received good credentials from PS users too so given that it comes with a sturdy aluminum frame it might as well be the best mobile 1.5TB external hard drive on the market today.