Our current pick for the best external desktop drive for most people is the WD My Book, and for portable drives, the WD My Passport, Works with USB ... the hard drive versus the SSD.

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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 ...