Before you go trying to watch movies and TVs from your external hard drive on your TV, you have to make sure your TV has a USB port. Most modern smart TVs do, but it's always good to double-check.

External hard drives come in two main types: HDD (Hard Disk Drive) and SSD (Solid State Drive). HDDs use moving parts like spinning platters and actuator arms to read and write data.

This Seagate External Hard Drive Is Now Almost Free, No Need for an SSD With 2TB of Storage Secure your digital existence with one of the most trusted brand on the market.

The Buffalo Skeleton Hard Disk is a 4TB hard drive that reveals its inner workings through a window, but only 50 are being released through a lottery.