Samsung 500GB portable drive for $235, Toshiba 1.5TB drive for $65
Dealnews.com has gathered some discounts on portable computer storage products, including Lexar thumbdrives, and external drives from Western Digital, Toshiba and Samsung.
A woman takes a picture outside the Samsung stand at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February. The company's portable storage drive is among the products offered for a discount in this roundup of discounts from Dealnews.com.
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You might have heard of , a reality show about people who bid on abandoned storage units. However, there's another storage war going on, one you won't see on TV (yet, anyway). Various data storage mediums are vying for your cash, and we've rounded up some of the choicest contenders in this week's best . Save $25 on a Toshiba 1.5TB external hard drive, score a Samsung 500GB SSD for $235, or grab two Lexar 32GB USB flash drives for just $22.
听Store: Best Buy
听Price: $64.99 with free shipping
听Lowest By: $25
Is It Worth It?: If you've got more than a terabyte of data to haul around, then you could use a good portable hard drive. The Toshiba 1.5TB Canvio Basics external HDD is an easy Editors' Choice pick at $65, which is a $25 savings. This USB 3.0 drive features an 8MB cache and runs at 5400 rpm.
听Store: BuyDig
听Price: $59 via coupon code "HDTEN" with free shipping
听Lowest By: $10
听Expires: March 28
Is It Worth It?: Western Digital's 1TB My Passport portable USB 3.0 drive is the one to choose if you don't need more than 1TB of storage. Coupon code "HDTEN" cuts it to $59, which is a current price low by $10. This line of WD drives features password protection and hardware encryption.
Looking for a bigger external drive? The above code drops the to $99. With free shipping, that's another price low, this time by $20.
听Store: Newegg
听Price: $234.99 via coupon code "VMEMADNESS" and checkout with V.me by Visa with 99 cents s&h
听Lowest By: $16
听Expires: March 31
Is It Worth It?: Probably the biggest battle currently being waged in the storage war is SSD vs. HDD. When it comes to speed, durability, and noise, , according to a recent breakdown by PC Mag. Going over to SSD has never been easier, either; the Samsung 500GB 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s 2.5" SSD has dropped $4 since our mention earlier this week, making this one an Editors' Choice pick at $235 (via coupon code "VMEMADNESS" and checkout via V.me by Visa). It features read speeds of up to 540MB/s and write speeds of up to 520MB/s.
For those craving even more zippy storage space, there's the . The coupon above drops it to $434.99, a $19 savings. Shipping adds 99 cents.
听Store: BuyDig
听Price: $22 with free shipping
听Lowest By: $14
Is It Worth It?: The USB flash drive has long been the king of ultraportable storage. Get 32GB of on-the-go space with this Lexar JumpDrive S50 USB 2.0 flash drive deal, and you'll bag a back-up drive for your trouble 鈥� that's 64GB for just $22! A $14 savings, this deal is an obvious Editors' Choice pick. Each drive features a sliding cover and antimicrobial protection.
听Store: BuyDig
听Price: $26.99 via coupon code "NFS10" with free shipping
听Lowest By: $22
Is It Worth It?: For faster transfer speeds on a flash drive, you'll need to upgrade to USB 3.0. You'll get exactly that with the Lexar 64GB JumpDrive S23, which costs just $5 more than the 2-pack above after coupon code "NFS10". That's the lowest total price we could find by $22. This flash drive features read speeds up to 100MB/s and write speeds up to 55MB/s.
Marcy Bonebright is a features writer for , where this article first appeared.