External Hard Drive Articles

WD’s Refreshed My Passport Lineup Features a Slim 5TB Portable Drive

By Matt Safford published 4 September 19

WD’s refreshed My Passport portable hard drives come in capacities of up to 5TB, come in four colors and top out at 0.75 inches thick.

LaCie Mobile Drive Portable HDD Review: Pretty Portable

By Sean Webster published 21 August 19

LaCie's Mobile Drive is the nicest-looking portable drive available. But unless you want to test drive the included free month of Adobe CC, there are better options.

Team Group Impresses at Computex With Liquid-Cooled M.2 SSD, Slick RGB Devices

By Joe Shields published 28 May 19

Team Group went all in on RGBs with new memory, flash drives, and external drive cases at Computex, as well as liquid-cooling a PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD.

Why I Will Never Buy a Hard Drive Again

By Matt Safford published 7 August 18

Now that SSD prices are falling and capacities are increasing thanks to QLC and Chinese flash, I’m ready to ditch the hard drive for good.

Seagate Expands Barracuda Series With 5TB 2.5" HDDs, Embiggens FireCuda SSHDs

By Paul Alcorn published 13 October 16

Seagate updated the BarraCuda line with beefy 2.5" models that are the first to break the 5TB barrier. Seagate also increased the density of its FireCuda 2.5" SSHDs up to 2TB.

LaCie Porsche Design Mobile Drive 4TB Review

By Chris Ramseyer published 2 September 16

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LaCie introduces its new Porsche Design Mobile Drive, which provides up to 4TB of storage in a stylish case. We put it to the test.

Adata Announces Rugged HD700, Slimmer HV602S External HDDs

By Paul Alcorn published 16 June 16

Adata's HD700 is a ruggedized drive is designed to survive shocks and vibrations, whereas the HV620S slots in as the slim and stylish drive.

SanDisk Extreme 900 Portable SSD Review

By Chris Ramseyer published 1 June 16

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SanDisk's Extreme 900 Portable SSD provides lots of capacity and high-performance flash-based storage for working professionals on the go. The series is also one of the first to utilize USB 3.1 Gen 2 for faster file transfers.

SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSD Review

By Chris Ramseyer published 20 May 16

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The SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSD is a value-focused external flash-based product for those who need rugged high-speed storage while on the go.

Sony PSZ-HB2T External Rugged HDD Review

By Chris Ramseyer published 3 March 16

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Sony has a new line of portable, rugged storage products to complement the company's professional imaging products. Today, we look at a 2TB single-drive model designed to go where traditional storage cannot.

Seagate Backup Plus 8TB External HDD Review

By Chris Ramseyer published 1 March 16

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Seagate recently announced capacity increases to several of its HDD products. Prior to that, the company released the latest iteration of its Backup Plus Desktop Drive. The new version is an 8TB model that supersedes the previous 6TB flagship.

HGST Announces New G-Technology G-RAID Enclosures

By Paul Alcorn published 23 February 15

The enclosures provide up to 440 MB/s of sequential throughput, which represents the overwhelming majority use-case for video/photography production environments.

I-O Data's New HDDs Boast Sleek Brushed Aluminum

By Niels Broekhuijsen published 18 June 14

I-O Data's new external hard drives are pretty.

HighPoint Introduces Simple Storage Dock: RocketStor 5411A

By Niels Broekhuijsen published 24 May 14

HighPoint's new RocketStor 5411A claims to be the world's most affordable single-bay storage dock.

Toshiba Expands Canvio Basics Line, Intros Special Edition

By Kevin Parrish published 29 January 13

Here are two more external backup solutions, one of which includes NTI Backup Now EZ software.

Silicon Power Intros Diamond D03 USB 3.0 Portable HDD

By Kevin Parrish published 3 October 12

Silicon Power has added a sleek new portable HDD to its Diamond series.

USB 3.0-Based 2.5" Hard Disks From Adata, Hitachi, And WD

By Manuel Masiero, Achim Roos published 31 August 12

USB 3.0 allows external hard drives to realize their performance potential. Each of the three external USB 3.0-based 2.5” disks we're reviewing also excels in some other discipline. We study these specialties up close: speed, capacity, and durability.