Who makes the best 1 tb external hard drive?
When it comes to the reliability of the electronics inside these hard drives, most manufacturers are about the same. That is, these drives are VERY reliable and if you don’t bang, drop, and throw them around, they should outlive your computer (but not you — for important electronic documents and files, plan on getting a new backup drive every few years). Everyone in the hard drive business has been making and improving these drives for 30 years, so I really can’t tell you to choose Western Digital over Seagate. Even Iomega just stuffs someone else’s hard drive inside their enclosure, they don’t actually make the drives. I would stick with the big names on the consumer front. We like the Western Digital Passport and My Book lines, both of which have good reputations among users (over 600 reviewers on Amazon rate the MyBook 4 out of 5 stars, just over $100 for the 1TB version). The Seagate FreeAgent line is also popular. I’ve also been using an Iomega Prestige external hard drive for ab
