New SuperSpeed USB 3.0 drives include models from (clockwise from left) Buffalo, Iomega, Seagate, and Western Digital. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS: ROBERT CARDIN When you’re in front of your PC, waiting for ...

A portable USB hard drive is a great way to back up data but what if your USB ports are unable to supply enough “juice” to power the drive? A modified version of the Silicon Chip Usb Power Injector is ...

When you are in the market for external storage solutions, two of the most common options you'll find are USB flash drives and external hard drives. Despite the difference in their names, both use the ...

Why we like it: It rules our Top 10 Portable Hard Drives chart. The Iomega eGo 500GB Portable Hard Drive performed well across the board in our PCWorld Labs tests, earning it first place on our Top 10 ...

Designed to look right at home with the Mac, G-Technology’s aluminum G-Drive mini is a portable external hard drive that is one of the fastest of its kind that we’ve tested. With a 7,200 rpm 500GB ...

Samsung is introducing an updated version of its S2 USB portable hard drive. And in case you thought all USB hard drives were created equal, here’s two reasons it turns out you were wrong. First, the ...

USB is usually a safe bet, and equipping an external hard drive exclusively with USB 2.0 means that almost any modern computer can use it. But USB 2.0’s pokey performance lags behind the eSATA and ...