Seagate's 2TB Expansion portable hard drive is down to its best price at Amazon

Seagate's Expansion 2TB Portable External Hard Drive can keep your most important files secure wherever you go, and now you can pick one up on sale for just $49.99 at Amazon. Today's deal brings this external hard drive to a new low price there, but the sale is limited in time as it forms part of an Amazon daily deal. A bunch of other PC accessories are also on sale there until the end of the day.

Seagate Expansion 2TB Portable Hard Drive

Seagate Expansion 2TB Portable Hard Drive

You'll have plenty of space for your photos, movies, and music with 2TB of additional storage. You can also use it as an external backup drive. It's plug-and-play for Windows, though you can reformat for use with a Mac.

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This external hard drive works with Windows computers right out of the box, and works perfectly with a Mac after a reformat which is simple enough to do. It's a plug-and-play drive that uses USB 3.0 for fast transfer speeds up to 120 MB/s and for power. It's also backwards-compatble with USB 2.0. Like most plug-in drives, it's easy to just drag the files to the drive that you want to save to either make a copy or use the drive as additional storage to free up some space on your computer. With all that new-found room, you can store a whole bunch of movies, music, photos, and other media.

Seagate includes a one-year warranty and an 18-inch USB 3.0 cable with this purchase. Other sizes are available if 2TB isn't enough or is overkill for what you need. Existing owners of these drives rate them highly with average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. If you're not sold, check out our list of the best external hard drives for plenty of other options.

Adam Oram

Adam Oram is a Senior Writer at iMore. He studied Media at Newcastle University and has been writing about technology since 2013. He previously worked as an Apple Genius and as a Deals Editor at Thrifter. His spare time is spent watching football (both kinds), playing Pokémon games, and eating vegan food. Follow him on Twitter at @adamoram.