It is resistant to heat, cold, water, and being dropped. LaCie’s Rugged Key portable flash drive is the most unusual product in this discussion. These three companies currently offer external storage that MyMac is pleased to evaluate and recommend year after year. You think company warranty periods are too short, but you typically use their products beyond the guaranteed number of years.Įnter Center Stage: LaCie, Seagate, and Other World Computing, or OWC.
You always need more external storage than you think you need, and you always want faster transfer speeds than you have. A few reliable companies dominate the market for external storage. Portable external drives can cost more per gigabyte than do stationary desktop units, but drive prices in general continue their astonishing descent from the days of not very yore. Prices are all over the place, as are design and drive case size. USB 2 is still here, as is FireWire 800, and so now are USB 3 and Thunderbolt. Bus-powered external portable drives of different sizes, speeds, and capacities will be around for a while longer. The more things stay the same, the more they change. Seagate Backup Plus Portable External 1TB Drive for MacĪdapters are available, sold separately, to convert this drive to FireWire 800 and/or Thunderbolt OWC On-The-Go Pro 500GB Triple Interface External Drive OWC On-The-Go Pro 240GB SSD Triple Interface External Drive
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