Need a backup option or just more space? Here are our top picks for the best external hard drives and SSDs. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000.

Western Digital's new 6TB 2.5-inch hard drive is being deployed across several of its product lines, spanning its own ...

When it comes to learning how to choose an external hard drive ... play a role in how fast your drive can operate: The underlying storage technology and the connector it uses.

Coming in 750GB and 1TB varieties, the Travelstar is a great deal for anyone who is looking for a great hard drive in their laptop. Do you travel for work or school a lot? Well, if so, the WD ...

For work and play, it’s hard to beat the utility of a laptop. In the course of a day, you can use it to read the morning news, exchange emails, schedule appointments, pay the bills, hand in ...

It’s eminently portable, being both small and eschewing the necessity of a connector cable ... a portable 2.5-inch hard drive. The latter is designed to take bumps in a laptop, even when ...

The Best External Hard Drive Deals This Week* Samsung T9 Shield 2TB Portable USB-C Solid-State Drive — $239.81 (List Price $299.99) LaCie Rugged Mini 2TB Portable USB 3.0 Hard Drive — $93.46 ...

We also benchmark every external hard drive we’ve selected for this page for performance, in order to find out how it compares with its rivals. We test drives on a laptop and a PC, running the ...

We hooked up each external hard drive to a current-generation Dell XPS 17 laptop, using the best connection interface available to that drive, always in the same port, to minimize performance ...

The traditional answer has been an external hard drive. The newer ... which is a flat, wide connector that is different from any USB port you'll see on a laptop or desktop. Is a Rugged External ...

Why We Picked It The LaCie 2big RAID external hard drive, aimed squarely at videographers, photographers, and other content creators, earns kudos for design excellence in both looks and features ...

Most such multi-bay devices are sold without the actual hard drives included, so you can install any drive you want (usually, 3.5-inch drives, but some support laptop-style 2.5-inchers).