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 ...

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.

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

I’ll be honest here. We have a love affair with solid state drives here at Custom PC Review, and as SSDs have become higher capacity and more price competitive with traditional hard drives, we’ve ...

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 ...

A quality budget 2.5-inch hard drive enclosure at a rock-bottom price that's also lightweight and well worth a look. The enclosure kit is simple, as it contains the enclosure, a stick-on foam drive ...

This secure hard drive’s exponentially larger capacity and high-flying USB 3.0 performance makes it a better value than secure flash drives. If having to pay $7+ per gigabyte for secure flash drives ...

Short Version: This seemingly everyday USB 3.0 hard drive hides a couple dirty secrets. tl;dr don’t buy this drive. Why you ask? You’re going to have to click through for that. I don’t get it. How in ...

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 ...

We have noticed that the external hard drive connected to the USB 3 Port is not recognized by Windows. The drive is not visible in the File Explorer making it inaccessible. In this post, we will see ...

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 ...

Before you throw out or destroy an old hard drive, check out a few ways that you can put it to use without making our landfills any bigger.