External Hard Drives

Welcome to the External Hard Drive online shop, the perfect place to find everything you ever wanted to know about External Hard Drives. An External Hard Drive is simply a hard drive that is external to your main computer or laptop. It performs the same function as your main hard drive but is used primarily as a backup device and is mainly used as an additional hard drive to safeguard important files and documents such as spreadsheets, word documents, photos and your music collection. Memory sticks can also be as additional storage but they are limited to 4GB, 8GB, or 16GB, and whilst these removeable drives may be sufficient for some people, they are unlikely to be enough if you use an MP3 Player or if you are looking to backup your photo collection. This is why external hard drives have become so popular. External hard drives come in two main sizes, 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch. The 2.5-inch hard drive is the same size as in a laptop, and the 3.5-inch hard drive is as found in a desktop computer. The difference between these two hard drives is the interface that connects the external hard drive to your computer. External hard drives connect to the computer via a USB or Firewire cable, with most computers now doing this automatically.

To see our range of external hard drives and to compare prices, simply choose from the manufacturers on the right. For a more in-depth look at external hard drives, browse by brand below and read the latest product reviews, ask questions, leave comments or even leave your own review for others to read.

External Hard Drives

• Buffalo External Hard Drives
• Freecom External Hard Drives
• Iomega External Hard Drives
• Seagate External Hard Drives
• Verbatim External Hard Drives
• Western Digital External Hard Drives