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1. WD (Western Digital Company) & HGST
(formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies)
■ Western Digital Company is a reputable
and reliable brand manufacturing portable
external hard disks and storage devices.
■ No external hard disk brands in the world
are able to compete with the
manufacturing output provided by WD.
■ WD is one of the largest manufacturers of
hard disks in the world. As we write this
post, Western Digital has three portable
hard disks – WD Elements Portable, My
Passport Ultra, and My Passport Ultra
Metal.
■ WD manufactures external hard disks for
both PC and Mac. It comes in variations of
500 GB, 1TB and 2TB. The external
portable hard disks have features such as
USB 3.0, cloud backup and password
encryption.