We love that modern laptops have become so slim and light, but we aren’t happy about the disappearance of ports and features. It’s been forever since I’ve seen a laptop with an optical disc drive! If ...

It is easy to forget all about mechanical hard disk drives when you’ve had SSDs in your system for a long time. After all, they aren’t new. But the traditional hard disk has a lot of merits, and it’s ...

Some old USB gadgets from the 2000s are either making a comeback or are still relevant for many. These are the most useful ...

With the lack of FireWire ports in the current MacBook ( ) and MacBook Air ( ), USB-only drives have re-emerged as attractive storage options for Mac users. The 500GB MiniStation TurboUSB Portable ...

You can’t crack open most Apple computers to expand storage. These external drives can help handle large media or backups with ease. By Heather Kuldell-Ware Published Oct 13, 2023 12:00 PM EDT We may ...

(2) A magnetic disk drive that plugs into a USB port on a computer. Used for transport as well as backup and additional storage, portable hard drives rival the capacity of many internal hard drives.

Remember when floppy disks were cutting edge? These days, 1.44 megabytes of memory might not even be enough to store one high-resolution compressed image, much less an entire album of digital photos.

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I’ve just picked up one of those fancy USB 3 drives to use with my Macbook Air as a sort of secondary backup when I travel, as it was so inexpensive for a 120 Gb drive. I wanted to know how much ...

When it comes to gaming, speed is everything. From faster load times to smoother gameplay, every second counts. That’s where a portable SSD (solid-state drive) steps in as a powerful upgrade to ...