Its transferring prowess is mainly due to its USB 3.0 port, which is able to transfer at faster speeds than USB 2.0. USB 3.0 is backwards compatible with USB 2.0, but you won’t benefit USB 3.0’s fast transfer speeds. However, USB 3.0 hasn’t been mainstreamed into all PCs, so I took the liberty of seeing how its scores changed when plugged into a USB 2.0 port. On our drag and drop test the HP Portable managed to transfer our 1.22GB file in 46 seconds and scored a 2, 916 on our PCMark 05 test.
The HP External Hard Drive(1TB) offers enough space to back up most home computers with room to spare. Coupled with its intuitive backup software, this hard drive should be on your portable backup list for school or home. The HP External Hard Drive(1TB) is the only USB 3.0 hard drive we’ve reviewed to date and its competitive performance against the high file transferring speeds of fellow eSATA drives can only help its cause. In terms of price-per-GB, the HP is in the middle. USB 3.0 drives with 1TB of storage are ranging from$159 to$179, making the HP Portable External Hard Drive(1TB) the perfect price and storage device.