What is the best external hard drive for storing kinos and why is it the WD Elements Portable series?

depends what you want it for. gaming go with ssd but kinos stream fine off these

passport > elements > easystore

Not OP but i have a WD hardrive since 2003 or something, using it every other day, and it's still working great

i have a 4tb and it bricked on me. lost all those movies man

>download movies on my cell phone via cell network
>Move them to my PC for back up
>And then move them onto an external so I can watch them on my TV
Comfy

Why not internal drives? Assuming you're not using a NAS.

most 'people' are too dumb to install internal drives

I'm glad for you. But that's not indicative of the entire run, or whether new models from the brand are as reliable. Variance is better, within budget of course.

>watching movies on your phone
not sure if you're baiting hard with this one

I don't watch them on my phone, I watch them on my TV