5 Best Portable External Hard Drives

2. Iomega Prestige

The Iomega Prestige portable hard drive provides a simple and affordable solution for all your storage needs and an ideal for adding capacity to your system. This stylish drive offers a strong aluminum construction and included stand which will resist good shots without damage and also can be used both horizontally and vertically as the user likes.

It has a very beautiful finishes making it ideal to be on your desktop but is a little slower than some of its competitors. It connects via USB 2.0 port, FireWire, or eSATA and does not come with any software. Within the range of Prestige it runs at 7200rpm, has an 8MB cache and data transfer speed is 25 MB to 20 MB of reading and for writing. It is priced at 5,913 for 1.5 TB.