Safeguard your data and/or increase your capacity with an on-sale SSD or HDD. Especially if you're in the business of video ...

(If it’s an SSD you are after, read Best external SSD for Mac.) There are plenty of choices, too, with compact, portable hard drives designed for use with laptops, and desktop drives with larger ...

The WD My Passport, Works with USB-C is now available at the highest capacity (6TB) of any pocketable, spinning hard drive on the market today. Despite its name, it connects via a USB Micro-B port ...

External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to quickly back up your important files, as well as store any data that you don’t need on your ...

These could be worth the price if you need the boosted storage of an HDD but expect to actively read and write to the external drive a lot. Pretty much any hard drive can be used as an external ...

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The drive’s USB interface provides a quoted write speed of 1000MBs, while the read speed is slightly higher at 1050MB/s. It didn’t quite match those speeds in our tests, but its write speed of ...

Our reviewers have been putting computer hardware through its paces for decades. Our external drive evaluations are thorough and rigorous, testing the limits of every product — from performance ...

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