The best external hard drives transfer files quickly, are durable enough to withstand a few knocks, and offer a wide range of storage sizes to meet your needs and budget. We've tested hard disk drives ...

Making sure your company's hard drives are free of errors helps to protect against the loss of important data. How you go about performing a disk check on a hard drive has changed somewhat with the ...

Welcome to TUAW's 2011 Holiday Gift Guide! We're here to help you choose the best gifts this holiday season, and once you've received your gifts we'll tell you what apps and accessories we think are ...

Recently we published a set of benchmarks comparing how the eSATA, USB, and FireWire interfaces compare in data storage applications. The external storage article detailed three sets of benchmarks ...

We love that modern laptops have become so slim and light, but we aren’t happy about the disappearance of ports and features. It’s been forever since I’ve seen a laptop with an optical disc drive! If ...

If you don’t routinely back up your data and have lost essential files from an external hard drive, external hard drive recovery can be challenging. External hard disk data recovery can be more ...

While OS X makes external drives available to all users on the system, you can change this to ensure your files are only accessible by you. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

SanDisk's Extreme SSD series became prone to data loss and failure — is it worth trusting your data with a questionable SSD?

To increase data transfer speed in your external hard drive on a Windows 11/10 computer, you can try the following solutions: If you have a USB 3.0/3.1 external hard drive and you connect it to your ...

Apple on Monday released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant software to enable users to create recovery partitions on external drives. The company also issued an update to its Logic Express and Logic Pro ...

An external hard drive that cannot be recognized can cause serious problems for business users, whether you are relying on the drive to make backups or transferring files from one machine to another.