Using an external hard drive is a great way to back up what’s most important to you while retaining full access to your data. They're a good way to augment your existinginternal drive storage, and ...

You can use external hard drives to back up critical business data or add additional storage to a workstation. However, because external storage devices can cost hundreds of dollars, you can reduce ...

This cleverly disguised 2.5-inch RAID enclosure drastically improved the performance of our hard drives in RAID 0. But continuing problems with configuring SSDs leaves us unable to recommend it in ...

Orico has made a clever external 2.5-inch USB enclosure with a retro cassette design that is inexpensive and fun to use. The Orico 2.5-inch USB SATA External Hard Drive Enclosure is a small plastic ...

There are thousands of external computer storage cases on the market. Some are good, some are bad, and we have opinions on which are the best hard drive enclosures for Mac users. Storage is a ...

Earlier this year, I wrote several guides to boost the speeds of older Macs by swapping their internal hard drives for super-fast solid state drives (SSDs). As readers have confirmed, their older ...

What to do with the old hard drive you just removed from your laptop or desktop? You could just keep it around as a spare—but installing it into an external ...

MVK has a new line of hard drive enclosures for the security folk, called the “impact Encrypted HDD Enclosure” line. Available in 40 bit and 128 bit encryption models, each enclosure includes three ...

A great way to get some life out of a hard drive from a previous build, or your old drive once you've upgraded to an SSD or a new computer is to grab a drive enclosure, mount the drive into it, and ...

We’ve seen some pretty desirable counterfeit accessories for our Macs before — such as that delightful little card reader from MIC Gadget that featured a glowing Apple logo — but unfortunately, Apple ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Currently, I have about 10 different SSD enclosures with ...

Mechanical hard drives will continue to be available — though decreasingly important — into the foreseeable future. New drives are cheaper and higher-capacity than increasingly popular solid state ...