Lots of persons, these days, are considering portable hard drive to be the best choice among external hard drives and the number of its votaries or steady admirers are increasing by leaps and bounds. Is this without any reason? in no way and what is attracting people increasingly is the presence of copious numbers of advantages regarding portable hard drive and these often make persons discard flash drives and opt for the former.

There is hardly any doubt that price is a great benefit of portable drives when compared to flash drives (even pen drives or thumb drives or USB sticks). If you are in search of a good and effective storage space, hard drives are the best options as they do proffer much more space for less amount of money. Bear in mind that you can easily opt for higher capacity flash drives, like 32GB models but these are really expensive. In accordance with experts, a 32GB flash drive is time and again more expensive than a conventional portable hard drive.

How many types of portable hard drives are available then? Well these do appear in the form of 2GB, 4GB, 6GB, 8GB, 12GB, 20GB, 40GB, 60GB, 80GB, 100GB, 120GB, and 160GB capacities.

Again as far as the lifespan of a portable hard drive is concerned it is more compared to a flash drive. While a flash drive consists of restricted number of write and erases cycles before failure, a portable hard dive offers many more write/erase cycles and it also continues longer.