USB 2.0 portable hard drives are common and ideal for compatibility, but are slow performers. Upgrading your portable hard drive to a USB 3.0 enclosure will increase its performance significantly.

New SuperSpeed USB 3.0 drives include models from (clockwise from left) Buffalo, Iomega, Seagate, and Western Digital. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS: ROBERT CARDIN When you’re in front of your PC, waiting for ...

The G-Technology G-Drive Mobile USB 3.0 will backup and transfer files quicker than a 5,400rpm hard drive, but SSDs are faster still, if that's what you really need. The G-Drive Mobile USB 3.0 is ...

Ready for an unconventional upgrade? How about this: You can turn an old, pokey external hard drive into a blazingly fast one with about 10 minutes of your time and $15 of your money. See, most modern ...

Earlier this year, I wrote several guides to boost the speeds of older Macs by swapping their internal hard drives for super-fast solid state drives (SSDs). As readers have confirmed, their older ...

The Seagate Expansion boasts a single 22TB disk drive so it's physically no bigger than any other desktop hard drive. It features a USB 3.0 interface, which won't bottleneck traditional hard drive ...

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Every product we recommend is chosen through a combination of Primary Research and Secondary Research. External hard disks are now essential tools for anyone who needs to store a wide range of data, ...