We love that modern laptops have become so slim and light, but we aren’t happy about the disappearance of ports and features.

LaCie Rugged Safe Portable hard drives are smaller and easier to tote around than typical external desktop drives. Some feature case designs that reduce impact shock. With portable hard drives, USB is ...

(1) An external storage or optical disc drive that plugs into the USB port. See portable hard drive. (2) A small solid state storage module that plugs into the computer's USB port. Emerging just ...

It is easy to forget all about mechanical hard disk drives when you’ve had SSDs in your system for a long time. After all, they aren’t new. But the traditional hard disk has a lot of merits, and it’s ...

(2) A magnetic disk drive that plugs into a USB port on a computer. Used for transport as well as backup and additional storage, portable hard drives rival the capacity of many internal hard drives.

The 640-Gbyte 2.5-in. S2 portable disk drive has a high-speed 480-Mbit/s USB 2.0 interface. The drive operates from 5° to 40°C and supports SafetyKey password protection. The unit comes in four colors ...

It's a well known fact that no matter how much storage you have, you'll always find a way to fill it. This is true for both fixed and removable storage. As we continue to expand our internal storage ...

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External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your device is not detected by Windows or macOS.