Editors' note: This post was originally published on May 10, 2016 and is periodically updated. The cloud is great. But if you need a serious amount of storage, online backup is never quite enough.

What's more portable than a laptop, tablet, or smartphone? Answer: A USB flash drive. If you want easy access to applications like Firefox, Chrome, OpenOffice, and more, all you need is your USB flash ...

Fact: the current capacity of hard drives is constantly growing. Fact: data volumes are rising accordingly. Fact: the time it takes to analyse these data volumes, as well as to backup and evaluate ...

The modern laptop has its origins in the mid to late 1980s, when shrinking computer hardware and improvements to battery technology finally made mobile computing practical. But before the now iconic ...

A $27.07 discount that's hard to ignore. FireWire storage solutions for vintage Mac systems don't often see price movement, ...

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Makers of portable computers have spent the past 20-odd years striving to build systems that answer users' cries for "smaller, faster, cheaper." To a large extent, they have succeeded. One notable ...

The Toshiba HDDR320E03X ($199.99 list) is one of the new crop of 320GB 2.5-inch (notebook class) external hard drives. Its strengths include Mac- and Windows-compatible backup software, a compact ...

Portable FireWire hard drives spark the imagination. Holding one in the palm of your hand, you think of all the ways you could use it: to back up or transport files, as a Mac OS X boot drive, for ...

A portable SSD with NFC unlock felt excessive, until I used it with my iPhone 17 Pro Max ...