External hard drives can be moved between systems, reformatted at will, and repurposed without risking the data or stability of a primary computer.

The Seagate Astro Bot Limited Edition Game Drive is one of the cutest external PS5 hard drives on the market and packs in a ...

Hard drive prices will continue to be high for quite some time, as the needs of AI data centers continue to consume storage and raise prices for everyone. One of the major talking points about ...

Seagate’s now shipping 40+TB HDDs to support growing AI data center workloads and are qualified at two hyperscale data center ...

Western Digital is completely sold out of hard drive production capacity through 2026 due to massive demand from AI data centers. PCWorld reports that hard drive prices have surged nearly 50% in just ...

Thanks to data center demands, Western Digital has committed all of its HDDs for at least the rest of the year. Reading time 2 minutes We’ve been taking the humble external hard disk drive for granted ...

You've probably noticed that SSD prices are ridiculous right now, and they're not getting cheaper. If you have to back up some stuff, buy a new drive sooner rather than later to ensure your files are ...

Western Digital says its all sold out of hard drives for 2026, less than two months into the year. Credit: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty Images Looking to buy a new hard drive? Get ready to pay even ...

PC gaming has been off to a rough start in 2026, with both RAM and graphics cards facing massive stock issues, due to demand from AI datacenters. It looks like hard drives are next. Both Seagate and ...

Some Mac users are discovering they can't use their external drives with macOS Tahoe 26.3 and it seems Apple knows something's wrong. Let us know what works for you, and what doesn't.

1.36% overall HDD failure rate reported as one drive maker says it's sold out for 2026. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

Here's how to make sure all the personal files and other data on your storage drive are erased and unrecoverable, whether you're running Windows 11, 10, 8.1, or 7. External hard drives back up your ...