Earlier this year, I wrote several guides to boost the speeds of older Macs by swapping their internal hard drives for super-fast solid state drives (SSDs). As readers have confirmed, their older ...

It's your business' worst nightmare: the loss of all your data when your computer hard drive crashes. With external or portable hard drives, which you can move from computer to computer, you can back ...

Mechanical hard drives will continue to be available — though decreasingly important — into the foreseeable future. New drives are cheaper and higher-capacity than increasingly popular solid state ...

External hard drives are great for storing photos, music, videos, and backup files. Not only can they can be used with a PC, but also with media devices to add streaming storage, and with Wi-Fi ...

Using an external hard drive is a great way to back up what’s most important to you while retaining full access to your data. They're a good way to augment your existinginternal drive storage, and ...

I know there are tons of articles comparing Thunderbolt to USB 3.0, and I've read them. I'd like to get Arsians opinions. TL;DR: When running the OS on an external SSD, does Thunderbolt's performance ...

USB 2.0 portable hard drives are common and ideal for compatibility, but are slow performers. Upgrading your portable hard drive to a USB 3.0 enclosure will increase its performance significantly.