With storage rising in price, making use of spare M.2 SSDs becomes ever more important. This accessory delivers Thunderbolt 5 performance and a durable case.

External solid-state drives (SSDs) are a work of art and an indispensable computer accessory. Older storage media like hard drives, CDs, and floppy disks came with so many compromises that people didn ...

SanDisk's Extreme SSD series became prone to data loss and failure — is it worth trusting your data with a questionable SSD?

Iodyne has just introduced its new Pro Mini: a new Smart Drive external SSD with both USB4 and Thunderbolt 4, offering sustained 3GB/sec of read performance when you're on-the-go. Check it out: The ...

My current Time Machine drive is a 4TB HDD I've been using for...probably like a decade at this point. It's been very reliable. But being an HDD, it has the obvious downsides of noise and slowness.

External solid-state drives (SSDs) have come a long way, delivering faster performance, improved durability, and more storage choices than ever. Whether you're a gamer chasing shorter load times, a ...

The GigaDrive is at once an impressive piece of kit and also a bizarrely performing external drive. Large file transfers are lightning, while small files are sluggish over the Thunderbolt connection.

I currently rely on inexpensive external SSDs for Time Machine and Super Duper backups because they’re silent, and I’m willing to trade a lower price for more-than-adequate performance. But those in ...

Solid state drives (SSDs) are rugged, but they aren't immune to digital corruption - here's how I avoid the risk of destructive data devastation.