Top 1Tb External Hard Drives

The LaCie 1TB Rugged USB 3.1 external hard drives are affordable and very reliable. I own and use quite a few of them and have never had a problem with them. While they aren't as fast as a solid state drive (SSD), they are handy for backing up data and/or transferring data from one computer to another.

Perfect for external hard drives.

I can store 2 external hard drives in this.

I purchased two WD 1TB Elements Portable External Drives from B & H. They were recommended by my PC guy so I would have one for ongoing use and another for periodic backup. The drives are easy to use, sturdy, & compact. B & H website was secure & organized. Ordering online was easy. The drives arrived promptly in protective wrap. Thank You, B & H Foto & Electronics

these are very nice protection for external hard drives.

You can get most other 1TB hard drives for under $85 but you wont be able to throw it at a concrete wall like this one.

LaCie external hard drives are the best for the job and for the money!

I now have 7 of these WD external drives. They include 1tb, 2tb and now a couple of 5tb. I started buying them in 2015 and that one is still reliable, though the one I purchased a year later has started acting squirrely. The rest of them continue to be fast and reliable places to store my data and photos.

So much smaller than my old 1TB external drives, and getting power from the USB is great. I haven't had it long enough to say anything about it's durability, but so far, so good. I will be buying one or two more in the near future.

For several years I have been using the small Samsung USB-C external drives (almost credit-card sized) -- I used two 500GB and one 1TB drives along with Carbon Copy Cloner and my MacBook Air. That worked well (although the 1TB became corrupted and unusable about 3 months ago) and I would especially back up the drive before any flight and separate the drive from my laptop at TSA. I just upgraded to a (wonderful!) MacBook Pro 14 and attempted a Migration Assistant transfer from the Air using a fresh Samsung backup. I let it run for about 8 hours and it never got past the first Looking for applications and documents... stage. To cut to the chase: I thus ordered this 500GB LaCie drive and did a fresh CCC backup from the MB Air. It took 7 minutes to backup 400GB of data! Using the Samsung with USB-C it would take 13 mins for ~22GB. (See screenshot of CCC logs.) I hooked the LaCie up to the MB Pro and started Migration Assistant. The whole process took ~15 minutes. Previously it would take hours. Sorry for rambling on. TLDR; A wicked fast external drive worth every penny. And Thunderbolt makes a huge difference!