Looking to expand the storage of your computer? CNET's top picks of the best external hard drives and SSDs are worth your cash. Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's ...

And, of course, you should always have an external ... with 1TB drives costing around $100/£150, whereas that same amount of money can get you a 4TB basic desktop hard drive with a USB interface ...

Also: Best cloud storage services of 2025 The solution is an external hard drive to relieve the strain of your computer's limited storage space and secure your data against calamity. Prepare for ...

As a HDD, it's never going to be as quick as a solid-state drive, but in our own tests, we found it easily powered through tasks at lightning speed compared to lower capacity external hard drives.

The WD My Passport, Works with USB-C is now available at the highest capacity (6TB) of any pocketable, spinning hard drive on the market today. Despite its name, it connects via a USB Micro-B port ...

PCMag has been testing and reviewing external drives for decades. We consider speed, capacity ... Example: A $60 1TB (1,000GB) hard drive would run you about 6 cents per gigabyte, while an ...