Product Reviews

It's difficult to dispute the practicality of a 2.5in external hard disk, and the HandyDrive is a case in point. It weighs only 255g, and at 82 x 22 x 142mm (WDH) it's small enough to fit into a pocket. Although it comes with an extra USB cable to plug in to draw power, in practice the three laptops we tested with all supplied enough juice to run the drive. It also supplies 300GB of storage, which is ample for use as a photographer's friend, or simply for toting around very large documents. It's fast, too: writing 100MB of files took only ten seconds, so getting large folders across is painless. Consider the exceptionally low price of £110 - just over 36p per gigabyte - and this is a must-have addition to any traveller's bag.