Computer parts are rarely cheap but hard drives are generally less expensive than the other parts. Your computer’s video card might run from four hundred to eight hundred dollars while your mother board is about two hundred and your processor can be around three hundred but hard drives will give you a lot of space for a lot less money. Portable external hard drives are especially cost effective.

If you believe what they say over at Portable External Hard Drive Review you can expect to pay somewhere between fifty to one hundred dollars for a decent amount of storage space on a portable hard drive. For instance, I bought my own portable drive which holds about 500 gigs of data for only one hundred and fifty dollars. That’s a lot of storage space for not much money at all. Sounds like a good deal to me.