New Product Survey: External Hard Drives

After our look at Internal Hard Drives, we've launched a new Product Survey on DigitalVersus for External Hard Drives.

The six that we're looking at today all sell for less than 100 euros (125 USD / 85 GBP) and come in two different formats.

First up, four of them are ultra-portable pocket drives with 2.5'' disks and no external power supply--but they all still manage to pack in 250 GB:

• Freecom Tough Drive Pro USB-FireWire 400 250 GB

• Iomega eGo USB 2.0 250 GB

• Memup Kwest Evolution 2.5'' 250 GB

• Transcend StoreJet 2.5'' SATA 250 GB

The last two are bigger 3.5'' drives more suited to sit on your desktop and have more storage space to boot--500 GB each:

• Freecom Hard Drive 500 GB

• Memup Kwest Evolution 3.5'' 500 GB