Listed in this category are top brands of internal and external hard drives for your desktop computer or laptop. Brands include but not limited to Toshiba, Seagate, Hitachi, Buffalo, WD MyPassport and ADATA. Smaller hard drives have less than 1 TB of storage while larger ones have more like 2 TB, 3 TB even 16 TB. If you are into video editing or photography, you may need several terabytes of storage. Most external hard drives connect with USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 connections, but many are moving over to USB-C, which offers 10 Gps of transfer speed, equivalent to twice the speed on offer from USB 3.0.