We've run the benchmarks, and these are my top recommendations. Through extensive testing, the WD Elements portable HDD is the best external hard drive for most people. Reasonably priced ...

The top external SSDs and hard drives are ... the noticeably slower Adata SC685 or many other smaller drives on the market. The WD My Passport SSD with USB 3.2 doesn’t look like its travel ...

Western Digital has long been making affordable, portable, and mostly reliable external hard drives for some time. Its My Passport lineup is one of the most portable external hard drives out there ...

WD My Passport Ultra, 20th Anniversary Edition. A tribute to Western Digital's most popular drive, the WD My Passport Ultra, ...

We checked out which are the largest internal and external drives you ... Right now, the biggest portable hard disk drive has a capacity of 6TB; meet the WD My Passport 6TB which uses a special ...

But there are other types out there, so which is right for you? There are external drives, there are SATAs, and there are NVMe drives. Without getting too technical, M.2 PCIe SSDs offer much ...

That’s a good thing, as inside lurks a conventional mechanical hard drive, but this one’s no slouch. In our hands it managed healthy read and write speeds when transferring images and video, beating ...

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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 ...

Looking to expand the storage of your computer? CNET's top picks of the best external hard drives and SSDs are worth your cash. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's ...