Best Wireless Hard Drives. Seagate Wireless Plus Mobile Portable Hard Drive 2 TB. Seagate's Wireless Portable Hard Drive is an all-around powerhouse of data storage, offering solid storage, easy use, and a long battery life at a fair price.

Like all wireless hard drives, this one creates a personal Wi-Fi network, which means that it doesn't clog bandwidth on your home network. However, if you prefer, it can join your local network, giving access to any other devices in the network. This network can and should be protected with a password, especially if you use this HDD for backups.

Seagate Wireless Plus Mobile Portable Hard Drive. The Wireless Plus has a traditional SATA port in the back, but comes with a USB 3.0 adapter and cable for easier connections.

It does slightly add to the form factor of this device, but allows this serve as an internal drive as well. This drive also packs a 10 hour battery life, though it will vary quite a bit if you constantly stream video or upload. It also can even automatically sync with Dropbox or Google Drive, though this among other functions, are not found in the wimpy instruction manual.

Seagate Wireless Plus Mobile Portable Hard Drive 2 TB. Networked use is pretty easy, and the Seagate Media app is fairly intuitive. Navigation is a snap to pick up, and you can easily change the default apps for different types of media playback.

Certain other tasks like uploading wirelessly will require you to reference the handy user guide. Other tasks like renaming files can't be done withing the app, but can be done through other processes. The Seagate Wireless can also stream HD content to up to three devices concurrently.

Best Wireless Hard Drives, WD My Cloud 4 TB. While Western Digital's My Cloud line of external hard drives have all the wireless functionality of the aforementioned wireless drives, it is not at all as portable.

This is because the My Cloud HDD is actually network-attached storage (NAS) device. Rather than carry the physical storage around with you, all you need to do is plug your NAS into your wireless router via its ethernet port, and you'll have local network access to all your files.

Best Wireless Hard Drives, LaCie Fuel 2 TB. LaCie's Fuel is a compact wireless hard drive that shows off its utility with a cleverly designed gas tank case.

This presumably represents your extra reserve, a vessel for the kinds of files you want to bring everywhere. The design also sports a lanyard hook that I am entirely too scared to use. At 4.5 x 4.5 x 0.9 inches, the Fuel is easy to carry along in a bag, and boasts a good Wi-Fi range, within which you can access either 1 or 2 TB of storage.

Best Wireless Hard Drives. SanDisk Connect Wireless Stick 200 GB.

SanDisk's Wireless Stick is a flash drive-sized solution for external wireless data storage that matches full HDDs in functionality, despite being a fraction of the size. The Wireless Stick comes in sizes from 32 to 200 GB, with the cheapest model being under $30. For most purposes, though, you will want the most storage as possible, as you might be surprised how many files you would benefit from making wirelessly accessible.

Best Wireless Hard Drives. WD My Passport Wireless 1 TB.

The My Passport Wireless from Western Digital is a small, fast, and quiet portable hard drive that offers SD card connectivity in direct appeal to photographers and travelers. Taking the 1 or 2 TB version along on your next trip will allow you to back up or transfer files off of an SD card, as well as any wireless-compatible device that can access the My Cloud app. Setup can be a little tricky, with some firmware upgrades needed out of the box, but the unique functionality of the My Passport Wireless makes this easy to overlook.

Apacer AC330 1TB External Hard Drive Curved aesthetics AC330 USB 3.0 portable hard drive uses an ultra-thin design with a thickness of only12.4 mm. The stylish black case has a white central frame, making it simple yet unique; it is easy to carry and allows ultra-speed sending and storing of multimedia files at any time.

Apacer AC330 1TB External Hard Drive Plug & play LED indicator USB 3.0 1TB Metal exterior 12.4mm ultra-thin thickness The way we capture and store items are no longer the same, everything is moving towards a digital form. Those road trip photos, hours of recorded videos, thousands and thousands of books can now be stored safely with the help of Apacer's AC231 Portable Hard Drive.

Using the latest hardware to deliver top notch best performance the moment it is plugged into a computer. Space saving and energy efficient, makes it something everybody should have.

Seagate Expansion 1TB Portable Hard Drive (STEA1000400, USB 3.0, Installs in seconds, Up to 1,000 hours of digital video) Simple add-on storage that goes with you The Seagate Expansion Portable hard drive offers an easy-to-use solution when you need to instantly add storage to your computer and take files on the go. - Drag and drop file saving, right out of the box - USB powered - Fast data transfer with USB 3.0 connectivity The easy-to-use storage solution The Expansion portable hard drive can be installed easily by plugging in a single USB cord.

You can start saving your digital files to this external hard drive within seconds of removing it from the box.