Laptop drive almost full? Need to back up your photos? Desktop-size and portable platter storage provides a cost-effective alternative to SSDs. Our deep-dive reviews help you track down the right ...

It is almost mind-boggling how much data can be stored on a portable drive or USB thumb drive. As convenient as it is it to be able to carry 1TB of data in your pocket, though, portable drives are ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In the streaming era, relying on cloud storage for your files is just fine, but it can be better (and ...

Portable hard drives are versatile in that they not only allow you to back up important business information such as clients, reports and tax information, they are mobile and can be used any time and ...

Editors' note: This post was originally published on May 10, 2016 and is periodically updated. The cloud is great. But if you need a serious amount of storage, online backup is never quite enough.

Portable FireWire hard drives spark the imagination. Holding one in the palm of your hand, you think of all the ways you could use it: to back up or transport files, as a Mac OS X boot drive, for ...

Early on in the life of the PS4, it became clear the internal 500GB hard drive just wasn’t going to cut it. From disc-based games installing to the hard drive to the advent of digital games, not to ...