Over the past few months, a quiet revolution in external storage devices has been taking place.  USB-pluggable external hard drives have gotten cheaper and cheaper, making the threshold of the under $100 TB storage device thoroughly broken.  CNET reviews list 34 USB external hard drives that meet or exceed that amount of storage.

Sometimes it is hard to wrap our heads around how much data each of our files uses.  A terabyte is 1,000 GBs.  If you understand that a standard DVD can hold just under 5 GBs, imagine that a TB hard drive can hold well more than 200 times that.

External hard-drives can be one of the smartest investments any small-business owner could make in protecting their business.  From a handy back-up storage device, to using it as a one-stop storage place for your photos, music and video files, an external hard-drive is portable, easy to connect and great for taking along with your smaller devices for access to your most important files.

Next week we will be looking at some online storage solutions.