Productopia | External Hard Drives

A few years ago at this time, most retailers were pushing 1 TB external hard drives in their Black Friday circulars. This year, consumers will find they can get more memory for their dollars. A survey of sales fliers from Staples, Walmart, Office Max and Best Buy still finds plenty of 1 TB drives, but external hard drives with up to 3 TB of memory are starting to appear.

As was the case last year, Western Digital makes some of the better external hard drives discussed in our full report, and some retailers are offering deals on their products. But we found a few other bargains worth investigating if you're in the market for a new external hard drive to store all those holiday videos and photos.

You're heard it all before: Buy the biggest hard drive you can when you buy a computer, so you can store all your digital music, photo and video files. But no matter how big your PC's hard drive, sooner or later, it's going to fill up. Even if you have a massive drive, it's a good idea to have backup, because computers do fail (usually at the worst possible moment).

We've spotted a lot of good discounts on hard drives, but based on the reviews we read, we don't think any of them are better than the Western Digital My Book World Edition reviewed in our report on external hard drives.

You're heard it all before: Buy the biggest hard drive you can when you buy a computer, so you can store all your digital music, photo and video files. But no matter how big your PC's hard drive, sooner or later, it's going to fill up. Even if you have a massive drive, it's a good idea to have backup, because computers do fail (usually at the worst possible moment).

We've spotted a lot of good discounts on hard drives, but based on the reviews we read, we don't think any of them are better than the Western Digital My Book World Edition reviewed in our report on external hard drives.