If you do just want to buy a pre-built one, be sure to check out PCWorld’s list of recommended external drives.

The best external hard drives transfer files quickly, are durable enough to withstand a few knocks, and offer a wide range of storage sizes to meet your needs and budget. We've tested hard disk drives ...

Apple charges a premium for built-in storage, so investing in an affordable external drive can help solve your storage problems without breaking the bank. Here are a few tips to ensure you’re making ...

Welcome to TUAW's 2011 Holiday Gift Guide! We're here to help you choose the best gifts this holiday season, and once you've received your gifts we'll tell you what apps and accessories we think are ...

Recently we published a set of benchmarks comparing how the eSATA, USB, and FireWire interfaces compare in data storage applications. The external storage article detailed three sets of benchmarks ...

Making a trip out to Walmart soon? Don’t miss the Seagate 2TB Slim Portable External Hard Drive for just $60. It’s normally ...

Making sure your company's hard drives are free of errors helps to protect against the loss of important data. How you go about performing a disk check on a hard drive has changed somewhat with the ...

How to Select the Best External Hard Drive for macOS Time Machine Backups Your email has been sent Time Machine lets Mac users easily backup their computer. In this tutorial, learn how to pick a drive ...

Apple on Monday released Lion Recovery Disk Assistant software to enable users to create recovery partitions on external drives. The company also issued an update to its Logic Express and Logic Pro ...

You can still make an external macOS bootable drive, but Apple's tighter security procedures mean you have to prepare for it ...