The best NAS hard drive delivers more secure and efficient processes when managing and sharing high-volume data between multiple users. My team and I have spent years testing, reviewing ...

The best PS5 external hard drives can help you avoid disappointment. We’ve all been there, you pick up a brand new PS5 game only to get home and discover that you don’t have any space on your ...

Luckily, external hard drives are still pretty common and have only improved in the past few years. In fact, some of them can even be connected directly to a phone, which can be a great benefit ...

Spinning hard drives survive in this age of superfast portable SSDs due to their low cost per gigabyte, and the 6TB WD My Passport, Works with USB-C lists at a minuscule 3.2 cents per gig while ...

The NVM Express (NVMe) specification has been introduced in 2011. Five years later, it is definitely adopted as the new standard storage interface for Solid-State Drives (SSD). Even if SAS and SATA ...

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For the maximum amount of storage, you've got to go old-school with a hard disk drive. Although these are more vulnerable to mechanical wear than solid-state drives, hard disks are time-tested ...

Seagate’s Mozaic 3 Plus technology allows for bigger hard drive capacities by making data bits smaller and closer together on each disk. To write data, a laser diode attached to the drive’s ...

Laptop drive almost full? Need to back up your photos? Desktop-size and portable platter storage has never been cheaper. Our deep-dive reviews help you track down the right external hard drive.

Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio ...

How do you fit 32 terabytes of storage into a hard drive? With a HAMR. Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assisted magnetic recording, or HAMR, since at least 2002. The firm has occasionally ...

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 ...