Portable storage devices and external hard drives may not be the sexiest hardware on offer this Prime Day, but anyone who's ...

When on the hunt for a new PC or external hard drive, you’ll likely see two different storage options: Traditional hard disk drive (HDD) and solid-state drive (SSD).Deciding on the best one for ...

Storage drives mostly fall into two main categories: traditional hard drives, or HDDs, and solid-state drives, or SSDs. Most hard drives, until recently, were mechanical HDDs.

If you buy an external drive—such as one of our recommended portable or desktop hard drives, portable solid-state drives, or USB 3.0 flash drives—you may need to reformat it to work with your ...

Our benchmark suite puts solid-state drives and hard drives to the ultimate test. Here's how PC Labs runs and reports its storage benchmarks—and what they mean to you.

The Samsung Portable SSD T9 is a high-performance external drive, offered in capacities up to 4TB and with an interface that supports USB 3.2 Gen 2x2, which is blazing fast if you have a Mac with ...

Solid-state hard drives trade the rapidly spinning magnetic platters and multiple moving read/write heads of a traditional hard drive for a bank of the same type of memory chips used in USB drives ...