Storage: WD My Passport 1TB Portable USB 3.0 Hard Drive $50 (Orig. $100), more

Update (8/11 10:45am): Datavision via Rakuten (formerly Buy.com) offers the WD My Passport Ultra 2TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive in Titanium for $69.99 shipped. That’s $70 off the original price, $30 better than Amazon and the best current price we can find. Rated 4.5/5 stars by nearly 10,000 Amazon customers.

Best Buy offers the WD My Passport 1TB Ultra Portable USB 3.0 Hard Drive in black for $49.99 shipped. This is $50 off the original list price, $19 better than Amazon, within a few dollars of the lowest we’ve seen it go for and the best current offering we can find.

This external hard drive is rated 4.5/5 stars by nearly 10,000 Amazon customers and is the best-selling model of its kind as well. It features USB 3.0 connectivity, automatic and cloud backup, password/hardware encryption, and can be reformatted for Mac OS X use. Need more storage? The recently released WD My Passport Ultra 2TB Portable Hard Drive just got a 10% price drop down to $89 shipped (Reg. $100).

Newegg via eBay Daily Deals offers the Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-inch Internal Solid-State Drive for $149.99 shipped. Today’s deal is good for $120 off the original listing, $32 better than Amazon, a match of our previous mention and the lowest current price we can find. Rated 4.7/5 stars by nearly 4,000 Amazon customers.

Samsung’s 850 EVO features read speeds of 550 MB/s and write speeds of 520 MB/s, it has 256-bit AES encryption and is backed by a five-year limited warranty.

Other storage deals:

• PNY XLR8 CS2100 240GB 2.5-inch Internal Solid-State Drive: $69.99 w/ in-store pick up (Reg. $120+) | Best Buy via eBay
• PNY storage up to 50% off: 64GB USB3 Flash Drive $16, 128GB microSD $52, 64GB SDXC $22, more