Earlier this year, I wrote several guides to boost the speeds of older Macs by swapping their internal hard drives for super-fast solid state drives (SSDs). As readers have confirmed, their older ...

The unthinkable has happened: your external hard drive has suddenly stopped working. You've checked the cables and power adaptor but your Mac or PC can no longer see it. In this project we'll look at ...

If you've upgraded your laptop, don't discard that "naked" drive. You can put it back to work as external storage. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and ...

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It's common knowledge that solid state hard drives are better than mechanical drives, simply due to how they are constructed and operate. That said, you shouldn't throw away old drives. Deploy an ...

More and more lightweight laptops and netbooks are shipping sans optical drives. Don't buy an external drive for for $50+ for those few times you need it, turn an old USB HDD enclosure and DVD drive ...

It was a long time coming but you can finally connect an external hard disc drive (HDD) to your PlayStation 4 (PS4) or PS4 Pro. The days of swapping games in and out of the meager 500 GB (Gigabyte) ...

With USB 3.0 quickly gaining acceptance in the mainstream, it's now time for consumers to take advantage of the performance it has to offer. USB 3.0 is literally 10 times faster than USB 2.0 and ...

On the lookout for a fast, high-quality external enclosure for your stack of 3.5-inch SATA hard disks drives? The CRU-DataPort RTX100-3SJ may just be what the doctor ordered. If you’re anything like ...