To increase data transfer speed in your external hard drive on a Windows 11/10 computer, you can try the following solutions: If you have a USB 3.0/3.1 external hard drive and you connect it to your ...

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.

LaCie Rugged Safe Portable hard drives are smaller and easier to tote around than typical external desktop drives. Some feature case designs that reduce impact shock. With portable hard drives, USB is ...

Data is omnipresent. It’s stored on different devices — traditionally on a desktop PC, but now perhaps even more importantly on a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet. Even though data and ...

External hard drives are handy for transferring data between computers or as additional backup space. But if you try to use an external hard drive that's been formatted for Mac OS, you'll find that it ...

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 ...

When upgrading or changing the primary HDD/SSD in Windows, it’s painful if you need to install Windows 11/10 again. Not only does it take time, but it is also tedious to install Windows updates, ...

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SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — I’ve owned six portable USB hard drives over the past 10 years, and all six of them have failed unrecoverably. Is it just me, or is there a wider problem out there? These ...