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Am I a photo hoarder? Yes. Am I willing to change? Absolutely not, especially when I can get a 20TB (that’s terabytes, or 1,000 gigabytes) for $279. This is the largest consumer hard drive on ...

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External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to quickly back up your important files, as well as store any data that you don’t need on your ...

Hard drives may get you more capacity for your ... or a year's worth of family photos) to an external SSD in seconds rather than the minutes it would take with an external spinning drive.

or millions of MP3s or photos. With a good mix of capacity, pricing, and performance, it's a shoo-in as an Editors' Choice pick for desktop external hard drives. Most of us need a large repository ...