This guide makes sense of these essential external hard drive characteristics and outlines our top choices. Our current pick for the best external desktop drive for most people is the WD My Book ...

External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to quickly back up your important files, as well as store any data that you don’t need on your ...

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