Portable hard drives
A portable hard drive is an external hard drive offering increased data storage. They usually connect to the computer through a high-speed interface cable - USB and Firewire are the standard. Portable hard drives come in a wide variety of capacities, from under a Gigabyte, all the way up to several Terabytes. Under any of the current operating system they are extremely easy to setup and use being plug-and-play compatible. Thanks to the speed of USB 2.0 data transferral is very fast.