Best External Drives: Portable Hard Drives and SSDs of 2021 By Matt Safford, Sean Webster These external hard drives and SSDs offer the best balance of performance, features and price.
Sabrent Rocket XTRM-Q Portable TB3 SSD Review: Sleek, Spacious and Speedy By Sean Webster Though costly at the highest capacities, Sabrent’s Rocket XTRM-Q offers up high performance over both USB 3.2 Gen 2 and Thunderbolt 3.
Seagate Backup Plus Ultra Touch Portable HDD Review: Secured in Style By Sean Webster Seagate's Ultra Touch Portable hard drive sports a textured, two-tone look and performs as we'd expect. But it's the software that really ads value.
Plugable Thunderbolt 3 NVMe External SSD Review: Extreme Speed, Lower Price By Sean Webster Plugable's Thunderbolt 3 drive now ships in capacities up to 2TB, at a price that easily undercuts the competition.
Win a Spacious 9-Bay NAS and 16TB of Storage From Seagate and QNAP By Joshua Simenhoff We have 16 TB of storage and super slim NAS enclosure to giveaway, courtesy of our partners Seagate and QNAP.
WD’s Refreshed My Passport Lineup Features a Slim 5TB Portable Drive By Matt Safford 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.
Lexar SL100 Pro Portable SSD Review: Pro Pricing, Semi Performance By Sean Webster Lexar's latest external SSD sports read and write speeds that are about double what you can get from most portables. But is that enough to make up for its high price?
How to Build Your Own SSD: Fast, Roomy Storage for Less By Matt Safford If you’re looking for a speedy external SSD, you may want to build your own to save some money and get better performance.
LaCie Mobile Drive Portable HDD Review: Pretty Portable By Sean Webster 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.
LaCie 2big RAID 16TB Review: Big on Reliability and Capacity By Sean Webster With spacious capacities and a 10Gb/s USB 3.1 Type-C interface, LaCie’s got a new professional desktop RAID device that is ideal for the creative pro looking to up their storage game.
WD Releases 1TB Gaming Drive Accelerated SSD for Xbox One By Nathaniel Mott Western Digital released the new Gaming Drive Accelerated for Xbox One in 500GB and 1TB capacities.
Seagate Announces LaCie Rugged RAID Shuttle and 2big RAID External Drive Enclosures By Joe Shields Seagate Premium brand LaCie announces Rugged RAID Shuttle and 2big RAID External Drives. USB 3.1 Gen 2 connectivity along with Data Recovery Services.
MyDigitalSSD M2X NVMe Enclosure Review: Put NVMe in Your Pocket By Sean Webster MyDigitalSSD's new MX2 enclosure unleashes the NVMe beast with the USB 3.1 Gen 2 speeds up to 1,000 MB/s.
Drobo 8D DAS Giveaway By Joshua Simenhoff Enter for your chance to win a Drobo 8D DAS plus two 4TB Seagate Barracuda Pro Hard Drives
Patriot Evlvr Review: Evolving Your Workflow By Sean Webster Patriot’s Evlvr is significantly cheaper than competing devices, but with lower cost comes lower performance.
Samsung 1TB Portable SSD X5 Review: Leading Edge Performance By Sean Webster Samsung's 1TB Portable SSD X5 brings the speed of the Thunderbolt 3 interface and the NVMe protocol to a speedy external SSD.
HyperX Hi-Speed MicroSD Cards Arrive for Gamers By Zhiye Liu HyperX lifts the curtain on its Class 10 UHS-I gaming microSD cards for the Nintendo Switch and mobile devices.
RGB Invasion Continues With New Asus External Hard Drive By Zhiye Liu Asus ventures into the RGB storage market with its RGB-lit FX external hard drive.
SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD Review: Speedy & Rugged By Chris Ramseyer Thunderbolt portable SSDs received a lot of attention at CES, but USB is still more common, ensures maximum compatibility, and is very fast.
TEKQ Rapide Portable SSD Review: NVMe, Thunderbolt 3 Raise The Bar By Chris Ramseyer Not yet rated The TEKQ Rapide external SSD is the first SSD to marry the high-performance NVMe and Thunderbolt 3 interfaces.
