The best external hard drive boosts your device's storage space while delivering faster read/write speeds. We've run the benchmarks, and these are my top recommendations. Through extensive testing ...

This 2TB Patriot Transporter SSD stands out for its affordability and impressive read/write speeds of up to 1GB/s.

This mini hockey puck packs a ton of space and frankly embarrasses any monolithic external hard disk drive ... use either a USB Type-A or a Type-C cable to connect this Type-C drive to your ...

The fastest read/write speeds will be bottlenecked when transferring data over a connection that uses an older standard like USB 2.0. Make sure your external hard drive uses at least USB 3.0 ...

Crushproof, drop-proof, waterproof – and with a super-speedy Thunderbolt 5 interface – this solid-state hard disk drive is ...

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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 ...