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I used an external HDD after a decade, and it was surprisingly good


Seagate's Ultra Touch is a good choice if you need plenty of storage for archival needs.

It was decent enough at the beginning, but it didn't take long for the connector to start acting up — it would lose connection every time I looked at it — and the drive was slow even by early 2010s standards. (Image credit: Nicholas Sutrich / Android Central)In Hardwired, AC Senior Editor Harish Jonnalagadda delves into all things hardware, including phones, audio products, storage servers, and routers. (Image credit: Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central)Other niceties include AES-256 encryption, giving you the ability to easily safeguard the data on the drive.

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