Although we sometimes have a hard time acknowledging hardware more than a few years old, external PC storage has been evolving since the early ... Read more

With rated write performance as high as 10 MB/s and capacities as high as 32 GB, there's plenty of choice in the microSDHC marketplace. Do the ... Read more

It’s a good idea to use two CPU cores to speed up multiple drives in RAID 5 or 6 arrays and it’s even better to increase clock speeds. We put ... Read more

The latest flash-based SD memory cards with UHS-I deliver up to 63 MB/s throughput. Users who want to exploit that performance need to pay ... Read more

Three vendors of network-attached storage, Qnap, Synology, and Thecus, sent over Intel Atom-based NAS servers to test the effects of protecting ... Read more

The best ultra-portable USB 3.0 storage products from 16 to 128 GB square off in a grand comparison. We found wildly disparate transfer rates ... Read more

We know that adding drives to a RAID array can help improve performance. But does adding storage to a NAS device really help push throughput ... Read more

What do you do if you need to back up your data, transport it, synchronize it between several locations, and access it online? Hitachi’s Life ... Read more

External storage is almost a necessity these days. But do you go for 3.5" or 2.5" drives? What about eSATA, FireWire, or USB 2.0? Is it worth the ... Read more

Today we have a set of test lines up that are certainly not par for Tom's Hardware: we're putting LaCie's XtremKey through hell and back using an ... Read more

Another trio of SuperSpeed USB 3.0 drives landed in our German lab recently. As some of the contenders we've benchmarked underperform compared to ... Read more

Do you carry around large amounts of data? Do you need to transfer it between devices in a hurry? We're examining five new USB 3.0-based portable ... Read more

The first USB 3.0-based external hard drives aim at eliminating the USB 2.0 bottleneck (that hovered around 30 MB/s) with enough bandwidth to ... Read more

Wondering how fast USB 3.0 runs compared to USB 2.0 and eSATA? We take three flash-based thumb drives and run them through our storage ... Read more

Intel's most modern dual-core Pineview-based Atom processor isn't just aimed at energy-efficient netbooks. It can also be found in NAS servers ... Read more