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Best Storage Devices for 2019. Our editors hand-picked these products based on our tests and reviews. Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Slim Portable External Hard Drive.

My Passport is an inexpensive drive, but it offers outstanding performance that rivals that of pricier competitors thanks to a 3.0 USB port and excellent disk controller. This drive allows a maximum transfer speed of 174 MBps read, and 168 MBps write. Our testers discovered that you’ll need to reformat the drive before you can transfer your files from an Apple product, which is a slight inconvenience, but they say it's worth the trouble if you want access to this drive’s impressive capacity and fast speeds. It’s available in sizes ranging from 1 TB to 4 TB. If cost is no concern, we recommend taking a close look at the Seagate Backup Plus Hub. It houses SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) drives, which allow more physical bits of memory in the same space without decreasing the size of the bits.

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Yamaha 914rp drum kits. This drive offers a lot of capacity—available in 3TB, 4TB, 6TB, and 8TB versions—and is fast and flexible. Our testers appreciated the two extra USB ports on the front where you can charge other devices while you work. One of our reviewers reported that it took 12 minutes to do a 9 GB transfer, which equates to a write speed of about 107 Mbps. “It feels like a good value to me,” one of our testers said.