These connection types are ever in flux, but these days, most external hard drives use a flavor of USB or, in rare cases, Thunderbolt. Right now, the fastest connection type in wide use on hard ...

it’s always good to have an extra copy of your stuff in a local hard drive, just in case. Luckily, external hard drives are still pretty common and have only improved in the past few years.

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 ...

This 24TB external drive is the perfect choice if you're looking for tons of storage on the cheap. It can now be had for well below its MSRP as it drops to $280. You can never have enough storage ...

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An external hard drive becomes an essential bit of kit pretty quickly in the modern age, and it has the side benefit of improving the performance of your machine by freeing up space and resources. In ...