hard drive for photos

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If you're a photographer, chances are you've amassed a sizable collection of digital photos. If you're like many photographers, you still have some photos stored on your computer. If you'd like to free up space and back up those images, you can move them to an external hard drive. Browse the top-ranked list of hard drives for photos below along with associated reviews and opinions.

Seagate - One Touch 2TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive with Rescue Data Recovery Services - Red
Model: STKB2000403
SKU: 6439179
Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars with 315 reviews
Top comment
"We have several of these Seagate drives in use by various family members. They have proved to be great tools for the storage of photos and backup of computers....I love these slim hard drives. They are great for traveling and can be stored easily because they are not bulky....Great hard drive for traveling"
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Store and access photos and files on the go with Seagate One Touch. The perfect compliment to personal aesthetic, it features a minimalist brushed metal enclosure and quick plug-and-play connectivity with the included USB 3.0 cable. Great as a Mac external hard drive or Windows drive, simply back up with a single click or schedule automatic daily, weekly, or monthly backups. Plus—edit, manage, and share photos with a one-year complimentary subscription to Mylio Create and a four-month membership to Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan!
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"We have several of these Seagate drives in use by various family members. They have proved to be great tools for the storage of photos and backup of computers....I love these slim hard drives. They are great for traveling and can be stored easily because they are not bulky....Great hard drive for traveling"
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Store and access photos and files on the go with Seagate One Touch. The perfect compliment to personal aesthetic, it features a minimalist brushed metal enclosure and quick plug-and-play connectivity with the included USB 3.0 cable. Great as a Mac external hard drive or Windows drive, simply back up with a single click or schedule automatic daily, weekly, or monthly backups. Plus—edit, manage, and share photos with a one-year complimentary subscription to Mylio Create and a four-month membership to Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan!
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Your price for this item is $66.99
The previous price was $82.49
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Seagate - Expansion 8TB External USB 3.0 Desktop Hard Drive with Rescue Data Recovery Services - Black
Model: STKP8000400
SKU: 6461982
Rating 4.6 out of 5 stars with 33 reviews
Top comment
"Great external hard drive....This is a great external hard drive! It's very easy to use and worth the money!...Excellent Hard Drive...Excellent Hard Drive for backing up Photo and important data and documents."
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Ideal for the home, office, or dorm, Seagate Expansion desktop drive offers enormous desktop storage for photos, movies, music and more. Backing up and transferring content is incredibly easy — just drag and drop! To get set up, connect the USB hard drive to Windows or Mac — no software required. For Apple Time Machine, simply reformat. Included is an 18-inch USB 3.0 cable and 18W power adapter. Plus, Seagate Expansion comes with Rescue Data Recovery Services for additional peace of mind.
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"Great external hard drive....This is a great external hard drive! It's very easy to use and worth the money!...Excellent Hard Drive...Excellent Hard Drive for backing up Photo and important data and documents."
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Ideal for the home, office, or dorm, Seagate Expansion desktop drive offers enormous desktop storage for photos, movies, music and more. Backing up and transferring content is incredibly easy — just drag and drop! To get set up, connect the USB hard drive to Windows or Mac — no software required. For Apple Time Machine, simply reformat. Included is an 18-inch USB 3.0 cable and 18W power adapter. Plus, Seagate Expansion comes with Rescue Data Recovery Services for additional peace of mind.
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Your price for this item is $134.99
The previous price was $199.99
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Seagate - One Touch 2TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive with Rescue Data Recovery Services - Light Blue
Model: STKB2000402
SKU: 6439168
Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars with 315 reviews
Top comment
"Nice Little backup drive...Nice little backup drive to off load photos and videos. Plugged in nicely, and HP laptop recognized it easily. ...Great use to save photos and videos....I love this hard drive A lot of space. It's fast when when uploading or download files to the HDD. "
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Store and access photos and files on the go with Seagate One Touch. The perfect compliment to personal aesthetic, it features a minimalist brushed metal enclosure and quick plug-and-play connectivity with the included USB 3.0 cable. Great as a Mac external hard drive or Windows drive, simply back up with a single click or schedule automatic daily, weekly, or monthly backups. Plus—edit, manage, and share photos with a one-year complimentary subscription to Mylio Create and a four-month membership to Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan!
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"Nice Little backup drive...Nice little backup drive to off load photos and videos. Plugged in nicely, and HP laptop recognized it easily. ...Great use to save photos and videos....I love this hard drive A lot of space. It's fast when when uploading or download files to the HDD. "
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Store and access photos and files on the go with Seagate One Touch. The perfect compliment to personal aesthetic, it features a minimalist brushed metal enclosure and quick plug-and-play connectivity with the included USB 3.0 cable. Great as a Mac external hard drive or Windows drive, simply back up with a single click or schedule automatic daily, weekly, or monthly backups. Plus—edit, manage, and share photos with a one-year complimentary subscription to Mylio Create and a four-month membership to Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan!
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Your price for this item is $66.99
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Seagate - One Touch 2TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive with Rescue Data Recovery Services - Black
Model: STKB2000400
SKU: 6439172
Rating 4.7 out of 5 stars with 315 reviews
Top comment
"Photo backup...I plan on backing up my photos and photoshop files....Great hard drive....Great love it. One of the easiest hard drives to use."
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Store and access photos and files on the go with Seagate One Touch. The perfect compliment to personal aesthetic, it features a minimalist brushed metal enclosure and quick plug-and-play connectivity with the included USB 3.0 cable. Great as a Mac external hard drive or Windows drive, simply back up with a single click or schedule automatic daily, weekly, or monthly backups. Plus—edit, manage, and share photos with a one-year complimentary subscription to Mylio Create and a four-month membership to Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan!
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"Photo backup...I plan on backing up my photos and photoshop files....Great hard drive....Great love it. One of the easiest hard drives to use."
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Store and access photos and files on the go with Seagate One Touch. The perfect compliment to personal aesthetic, it features a minimalist brushed metal enclosure and quick plug-and-play connectivity with the included USB 3.0 cable. Great as a Mac external hard drive or Windows drive, simply back up with a single click or schedule automatic daily, weekly, or monthly backups. Plus—edit, manage, and share photos with a one-year complimentary subscription to Mylio Create and a four-month membership to Adobe Creative Cloud Photography plan!
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Your price for this item is $66.99
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Crucial - X6 SE 4TB External USB-C/USB-A Portable SSD - Black
Model: CT4000X6SSD9SE
SKU: 6457936
Rating 4.2 out of 5 stars with 87 reviews
Top comment
"Fast great SSD drive...Excellent high speed SSD drive. I use this for very large photo files and it is fast and easy to use. ...Great drive. Small and fast. We use it for storing large photo files. "
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How much content can you hold with your fingertips? With the Crucial® X6 Portable SSD, the answer is: A lot! Whether you’re downloading videos for off-line travel, organizing family photos, collaborating with classmates, or heading off on a great adventure, the Crucial X6 features up to 4TB of portable storage capacity and is ready to go wherever you do.
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"Fast great SSD drive...Excellent high speed SSD drive. I use this for very large photo files and it is fast and easy to use. ...Great drive. Small and fast. We use it for storing large photo files. "
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How much content can you hold with your fingertips? With the Crucial® X6 Portable SSD, the answer is: A lot! Whether you’re downloading videos for off-line travel, organizing family photos, collaborating with classmates, or heading off on a great adventure, the Crucial X6 features up to 4TB of portable storage capacity and is ready to go wherever you do.
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Your price for this item is $269.99
The previous price was $279.99
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LaCie - Rugged Mini 2TB External USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive with Rescue Data Recovery Services - Orange/Silver
Model: LAC9000298
SKU: 8548344
Rating 5 out of 5 stars with 1 reviewfalse
Top comment
"Excellent External Drive...I have not encountered any issues with this hard drive and would recommend to anyone in need of a supplemental external drive....[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Ordered this hard drive because it has been rated to have a superior build quality and life expectancy. "
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Travel with a capacity of 2TB in an ultra compact portable hard drive—LaCie Rugged Mini. Seamlessly connect to USB 3.0 computers, transfer content fast with speeds of up to 130MB/s, and trek confidently with all terrain durability of drop, crush, and rain resistance. This drive even includes a complimentary one month membership to the Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps Plan for access to awesome photo and video editing apps, as well as a two year limited warranty for long term peace of mind.
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"Excellent External Drive...I have not encountered any issues with this hard drive and would recommend to anyone in need of a supplemental external drive....[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] Ordered this hard drive because it has been rated to have a superior build quality and life expectancy. "
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Travel with a capacity of 2TB in an ultra compact portable hard drive—LaCie Rugged Mini. Seamlessly connect to USB 3.0 computers, transfer content fast with speeds of up to 130MB/s, and trek confidently with all terrain durability of drop, crush, and rain resistance. This drive even includes a complimentary one month membership to the Adobe Creative Cloud All Apps Plan for access to awesome photo and video editing apps, as well as a two year limited warranty for long term peace of mind.
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Your price for this item is $99.99
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LaCie - 1TB External USB-C, USB 3.2 Gen 2 Portable SSD with Rescue Data Recovery Services - Gray
Model: STKS1000400
SKU: 6488045
Rating 5 out of 5 stars with 2 reviews
Top comment
"Awesome external hard drive...I have not had any problems with it thus far, so no complaints from me. Great external hard drive...I’ve also downloaded photos and videos from my phone to my computer through iCloud to save on this hard drive to free up space on my phone. "
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Accelerate productivity and score some downtime with LaCie Mobile SSD Secure featuring password activated hardware encryption. Quick file transfers with up to 1050MB/s read and 1000MB/s write speeds. iPad USB-C connectivity provides easy backups—freeing up device space, plus up to 2TB capacity and simple plug-n-play USB-C Windows and Mac compatibility keep files handy. Travel-sized and styled right, work seamlessly from the drive—wherever you are.
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"Awesome external hard drive...I have not had any problems with it thus far, so no complaints from me. Great external hard drive...I’ve also downloaded photos and videos from my phone to my computer through iCloud to save on this hard drive to free up space on my phone. "
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Accelerate productivity and score some downtime with LaCie Mobile SSD Secure featuring password activated hardware encryption. Quick file transfers with up to 1050MB/s read and 1000MB/s write speeds. iPad USB-C connectivity provides easy backups—freeing up device space, plus up to 2TB capacity and simple plug-n-play USB-C Windows and Mac compatibility keep files handy. Travel-sized and styled right, work seamlessly from the drive—wherever you are.
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Your price for this item is $109.99
The previous price was $199.99
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SanDisk Professional - G-DRIVE 6TB External USB-C 3.2 Gen2 Hard Drive - Black
Model: SDPHF1A-006T-NBAAD
SKU: 6517100
Rating 4.5 out of 5 stars with 13 reviews
Top comment
"Great Hard Drive to Upgrade Transfer Speeds...really fast read/write speeds - took under 3 hours to transfer 3TB of videos/photos when I'm used to that amount taking all night...5/5 I use this as a backup/home storage for all my high res photos and it’s still stupid fast. Would buy again."
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The SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE enterprise-class hard drive with a USB-C (10Gbps) interface delivers ultra-reliable, high-capacity storage in a premium, stylish design. The 7200RPM Ultrastar drive inside features powerful performance with speeds up to 250MB/s read and 250MB/s write2 (6TB1 capacity) that is perfect for fast backup and access to your HD videos, photos, music, and other high-value content. The stackable, anodized all-aluminum enclosure offers premium durability and anchor points for attaching to a DIT cart, a mounting plate, or other gear for your production needs. The G-DRIVE desktop hard drive also offers LED light brightness customization with three modes to choose from, comes ready for Mac, and is easily reformatted for Windows.
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"Great Hard Drive to Upgrade Transfer Speeds...really fast read/write speeds - took under 3 hours to transfer 3TB of videos/photos when I'm used to that amount taking all night...5/5 I use this as a backup/home storage for all my high res photos and it’s still stupid fast. Would buy again."
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The SanDisk Professional G-DRIVE enterprise-class hard drive with a USB-C (10Gbps) interface delivers ultra-reliable, high-capacity storage in a premium, stylish design. The 7200RPM Ultrastar drive inside features powerful performance with speeds up to 250MB/s read and 250MB/s write2 (6TB1 capacity) that is perfect for fast backup and access to your HD videos, photos, music, and other high-value content. The stackable, anodized all-aluminum enclosure offers premium durability and anchor points for attaching to a DIT cart, a mounting plate, or other gear for your production needs. The G-DRIVE desktop hard drive also offers LED light brightness customization with three modes to choose from, comes ready for Mac, and is easily reformatted for Windows.
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Your price for this item is $199.99
The previous price was $239.99
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Samsung - T7 Shield 1TB, External USB 3.2 Gen 2 Rugged SSD IP65 Water Resistant - Black
Model: MU-PE1T0S/AM
SKU: 6501713
Rating 4.8 out of 5 stars with 245 reviews
Top comment
"This drive has proven to be reliable and compatible with both PC and Mac using Adobe software....I started testing this out in order to back up ,all my daughters, photos out of my phone. As soon as I plugged the device in, it began working with my device. "
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Samsung T7 Shield 1TB, Portable SSD, up to 1050 MB/S, USB 3.2 Gen2, Rugged, IP65 Rated, for Photographers, Content Creators, and Gaming, External Solid State Drive, Black.
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"This drive has proven to be reliable and compatible with both PC and Mac using Adobe software....I started testing this out in order to back up ,all my daughters, photos out of my phone. As soon as I plugged the device in, it began working with my device. "
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Samsung T7 Shield 1TB, Portable SSD, up to 1050 MB/S, USB 3.2 Gen2, Rugged, IP65 Rated, for Photographers, Content Creators, and Gaming, External Solid State Drive, Black.
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Your price for this item is $79.99
The previous price was $109.99
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Samsung - T7 Shield 2TB External USB 3.2 Gen 2 Rugged SSD IP65 Water Resistant - Blue
Model: MU-PE2T0R/AM
SKU: 6501719
Rating 4.8 out of 5 stars with 237 reviews
Top comment
"Purchased this SSD external drive to download photos while on vacations and bird watching trips. ...Best SSD external hard drive...Best purchase I've made on SSD EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE."
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Samsung T7 Shield 2TB, Portable SSD, up to 1050 MB/S, USB 3.2 Gen2, Rugged, IP65 Rated, for Photographers, Content Creators, and Gaming, External Solid State Drive, Blue.
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"Purchased this SSD external drive to download photos while on vacations and bird watching trips. ...Best SSD external hard drive...Best purchase I've made on SSD EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE."
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Samsung T7 Shield 2TB, Portable SSD, up to 1050 MB/S, USB 3.2 Gen2, Rugged, IP65 Rated, for Photographers, Content Creators, and Gaming, External Solid State Drive, Blue.
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Your price for this item is $139.99
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