Now a days in the market different branded hard drives are available like sony, hp, seagate, all the product have different specification like wireless hard drive is also vailable but I think it is not required wired hard drive are good .Hp external hard drive is good in looking, copy speed is approx 70mbps, after that its depends on our system, Hp try to make it compact as poosible and design is also simple so it is very good for office work, i think to protect it we have to use hard drive cover.we can also order this drive online also and we got a good discout also