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PORTABLE HARD DRIVE STORAGE

Hard drives might be unfashionable right now, but for less than half the price of most equivalent external solid-state drives (SSDs) these products deliver two terabytes (TB) of versatile mobile storage.

Whether you’re commuting your documents between home and office, out on the road with your MacBook Pro, or just need somewhere convenient to keep backups safe, these portable hard drives will do the job efficiently and at significantly lower cost.

At best, hard drives are only about one third the speed of a basic USB-C SSD, so they’re too slow to start your Mac up from regularly, although they can do so in an emergency. You

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