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Best Flash Drives 2025: Fast, Spacious, Pocketable USB Storage
Today's best flash drives are faster and speedier than ever. We've tested dozens to find the best.
Best External SSDs 2025
We've tested dozens of external hard drives and SSDs and chosen models that offer the best balance of performance, features and price.
The Best Cyber Monday hard drive deals include 20TB capacities at $0.02 per GB
Whether it's a great deal on a new external HDD or more capacity for your NAS, we've got you covered this Cyber Monday with our handy HDD roundup.
Gigabyte introduces Thunderbolt 5 PCIe 4 card with up to 120 Gbps of bandwidth, support for 100W power delivery
Gigabyte introduces "Thunderbolts 5", a Thunderbolt 5 add-in card for PCIe 4.0 motherboards.
New Freeware Detects Fake USB Drives with Inflated Capacity
If you have a USB drive you suspect might not offer the capacity it was advertised as offering, ValiDrive puts it through a 576-region spot check.
SK Hynix Enters Portable SSD Market With Beetle X31
SK Hynix enters the consumer external SSD fray with the Beetle X31 which is cased in aluminum and offers good sustained performance.
SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD Suffer Sudden Failures: WD Responds
WD says that it is readying a firmware fix for a frightening SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD sudden failure issue, but it only mentions updates for 4TB users.
Best Buy Lists More Affordable Xbox Storage Expansion Cards From WD
BestBuy lists Western Digital's Xbox Series X|S external storage expansion cards, then removes listing.