Portable hard drives are versatile in that they not only allow you to back up important business information such as clients, reports and tax information, they are mobile and can be used any time and ...

(2) A magnetic disk drive that plugs into a USB port on a computer. Used for transport as well as backup and additional storage, portable hard drives rival the capacity of many internal hard drives.

Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has plenty of life in it yet. It is true that flash storage offers ...

IBM today launched three hard disk drive products — the Deskstar 120GXP, Travelstar 60GH and Travelstar 40GN — that include its magnetic coating technology, nicknamed pixie dust. The new technology, ...

External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your device is not detected by Windows or macOS.