USB ports are ubiquitous, and many external drives now come with cables with both rectangular USB Type-A connectors and oval USB Type-C ones to enable adapter-free connections to PCs that have only one type.

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).If you appreciate the gamer aesthetic, the P10 is an obvious choice over more vanilla offerings like the WD My Passport or the Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Touch. As a spinning (5,400rpm) platter drive, its speed can't compare with an SSD, but it should work well for travelers or mobile workers who need lots of capacity for the spend. Its features include configuring RAID 0/1 with the built-in wizard, a self-encrypting password system, and a complimentary one-month membership to Adobe Creative Cloud. 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). In terms of performance, the My Book transfers files as fast as any comparable hard drives today through its single USB 3.

The DT2 isn't slim or portable like many external drives—in form, it’s a classic desktop spinning hard drive. Still, while external SSDs are cheaper than they were a few years ago (see the best we've tested at the preceding link), they're far from a complete replacement for spinning drives. As a desktop hard drive, it is not USB-powered, but instead must be plugged into its included AC adapter. They're mostly intended for professional use in editing studios, surveillance control rooms, and the like.Both Thunderbolt interfaces piggyback on a USB Type-C connector (not all USB Type-C ports support Thunderbolt, though) and offer blazing peak throughput of up to 40GBps. Slightly rounded edges and ripples give the My Passport drive both the look and the feel of a consumer gadget. Like other products in the SanDisk Professional line, the G-Drive ArmorATD is strongly geared to Mac use.