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.

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.

Seagate Expansion 500GB Portable Hard Drive (STEA500400, 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.

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.

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.

WD My Passport Wireless 1 TB. Granted, the wireless transfer will not meet the performance needs of someone transferring RAW format images, it's great for vacation pictures from phones or digital cameras.

The My Passport Wireless also offers a convenient 6 hours of battery life when video streaming, or 20 hours on standby. Streaming is quick and fairly lag free, particularly when you use the drive in Home Network mode, adding it to your local wireless network instead of using its standalone WiFi.

This WD My Passport Wireless 1 TB can stream to up to eight devices at once, though you will likely only find yourself using 1-3 at a time. The My Cloud mobile app is fairly easy to work with, and natively supports video, pictures, and music file formats.

PDFs and word documents will have to be accessed through a different device-appropriate app, but this is standard for most wireless HDDs. The app goes through frequent updates, but this helps keep it working its best.

The HP Envy 15 is a budget laptop computer that offers a good mix of performance and features. It's not the best laptop you can buy, but it might be one of the best inexpensive laptops, with solid construction and a decent feature set.

This laptop comes equipped with an Intel Core i7 processor and 16GB of RAM. The unit we evaluated was outfitted with a Core i7-6700HQ processor, but it can be equipped with everything from an Intel Core i5-5200U on up to other Core i7 processors. An Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M provides graphics horsepower, while a 1TB hard drive offers lots of storage space.