USB 2.0 portable hard drives are common and ideal for compatibility, but are slow performers. Upgrading your portable hard drive to a USB 3.0 enclosure will increase its performance significantly.

With this single portable accessory, you can add multiple USB ports, SD card capability, and up to 2TB of external storage to your computer.

USB 3.0 can speed up your setup or tank it depending on what you connect. Learn which devices benefit and which ones fall ...

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 ...

Here’s a useful gadget if you’re looking for a cheap way to add some network storage to your PC setup, the Addonics NAS adapter. The Addonics NAS adapter will turn any USB hard drive into a Network ...

IO Data Device has come up with another hum-dinger. If you were to put an enormous hard drive inside a USB 2.0/FireWire casing, give it some blue LEDs, and add a USB port, you’d end up with the 400GB ...

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 ...

Does your External Hard Drive keep disconnecting randomly on your Windows PC? Some users have reported that when they connect their external hard drives to their PCs, it disconnects randomly. Now, ...