An external hard drive is a portable piece of equipment that lets you increase the amount of storage space on your computer.

No rebates, no refurbs. Just a cool terabyte of USB storage for less than a c-note. The Verbatim drive spins at 7,200rpm and sports the usual USB 2.0 interface. Rick Broida is the author of numerous ...

While there are a lot of cloud storage services out there like One Drive and Google Drive, it’s always good to have an extra copy of your stuff in a local hard drive, just in case. Luckily, external ...

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Whether you’re working on a laptop or a tablet, a lack of internal storage can literally clog up your day. You can run a disk cleanup to clear up some clutter, but if you’re simply out of precious ...

Western Digital announced Tuesday the first 2 terabyte (TB) hard disk drive, a new addition to its Caviar Green product line. The new 3.5-inch hard drive costs $299. The single 2TB hard disk mechanism ...

Too much is never enough, and this adage is unarguably accurate when it comes to hard drive space. With digital cameras churning out multi-megabyte images and digital video chomping up gigabytes of ...

Got storage? Got LOTS of storage? Digital pack-rats can gorge themselves silly with this 1TB Fantom drive, which supports both USB and eSATA connections. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books ...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today is set to introduce a 500GB, 2.5-in. hard disk drive for notebook computers, slim desktops and mobile devices. According to the San Jose-based subsidiary of ...

Last year, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies predicted hard-drive companies would announce 1 terabyte drives by the end of 2006. Hitachi was only off by a few days. The company said on Thursday that ...

Running out of space for all your MP3s and pirated movies? Well hopefully it’ll take you a little while to fill up the Bigger Disk, Lacie’s new one terabyte external hard drive which has enough ...