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Luckily, external hard drives are still pretty common and have only improved in the past few years. In fact, some of them can even be connected directly to a phone, which can be a great benefit ...

The best PS5 external hard drives can help you avoid disappointment. We’ve all been there, you pick up a brand new PS5 game only to get home and discover that you don’t have any space on your ...

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 ...

The WD My Passport, Works with USB-C is now available at the highest capacity (6TB) of any pocketable, spinning hard drive on the market today. Despite its name, it connects via a USB Micro-B port ...

Selecting the right external hard drive is equally important for protecting your priceless raw data, and for providing easy ...

An external hard drive can offer a huge storage upgrade at a relatively modest price - though there is a big catch. An external hard drive connects to your console via USB and cannot be used to ...

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It wasn't all that long ago when external hard drives used to be enormous cubes, that made black box recorders on commercial airliners look petite in comparison. Today, the vast majority of them ...

After exploring various technologies, including wire matrices and rod arrays, IBM invented the hard disk drive in 1953 at its San Jose, California, lab. Initially, the technology was referred to ...

The Samsung 990 Pro 2TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 SSD has lightning fast read speeds of up to 7,450MB/s and write speeds of 6,900MB/s. This SSD is PCle Gen4 and is compatible with PC as well as PS5—though ...

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