Try as they might, the hard drive companies just can’t convince consumers to backup their precious computer data. Only about 14 percent of consumers use an external hard drive, according to hard disk ...

You can buy the WD 16TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive for $318, down from $360, for a savings of $42 or 12%.

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Western Digital Corporation, (NASDAQ: WDC), a global data storage technology and solutions leader, today expanded its iconic line of WD ® brand My Passport portable ...

There is really no excuse for failing to back up your PC. External hard drives are ridiculously cheap these days and they’re a great option for making a second copy of all your files. Case in point: ...

World Backup Day is just a few weeks away, and on March 31, every tech website on the planet will remind you to backup your data. Today, you can get a jump on the annual nag by picking up a desktop ...

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The good: All-metal scratch-resistant housing; supports FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connections; drive offers very good performance. The bad: Comparatively expensive and doesn't have USB 3.0. The price: ...

Western Digital, one of the biggest hard drive manufacturers, have just released their latest portable drive, the My Passport Ultra, which has some interesting features Portable hard drives are very ...

Whether due to the slow decay of time or some horrific coffee-spill-related incident, all hard drives eventually die. When that happens, it’s often the case that everything saved on them dies, too.

Next generation video game consoles have changed the conversation about supplemental storage for big game libraries. In short, it looks as though they won’t support external storage for installing and ...