Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio ...

Luckily, external hard drives are still pretty common and have only improved in the past few years. In fact, some of them can even be connected directly to a phone, which can be a great benefit ...

Seagate’s Mozaic 3 Plus technology allows for bigger hard drive capacities by making data bits smaller and closer together on each disk. To write data, a laser diode attached to the drive’s ...

The best external hard drives transfer files quickly, are durable enough to withstand a few knocks, and offer a wide range of storage sizes to meet your needs and budget. We've tested hard disk drives ...

How do you fit 32 terabytes of storage into a hard drive? With a HAMR. Seagate has been experimenting with heat-assisted magnetic recording, or HAMR, since at least 2002. The firm has occasionally ...

It wasn't all that long ago when external hard drives used to be enormous cubes, that made black box recorders on commercial airliners look petite in comparison. Today, the vast majority of them ...

Mountable virtual hard drive files, typically in .vhd and .vhdx formats, allow users to create virtual volumes that function like physical drives in a Windows environment. While these files have ...

You need only look at the best Xbox 360 games to see what made the console such a seismic hit. Launched in 2005 just ahead of the PS3 one year later, Microsoft's HD era brought a host of ...

Its 360-degree ... with 8GB of memory and 128GB of smartphone-style UFS flash storage. (UFS sits between cheaper Chromebooks' eMMC flash storage and a true solid-state drive in terms of quality).

If you’re shopping for an Xbox external hard drive ... Moving to the drive, a 14.5GB installation of Dustborn was transferred in just 1 minute 54 seconds while a 16.8GB installation of Mirror ...

Now available in a 6TB version, the Mac-oriented SanDisk Professional G-Drive ArmorATD offers some protection from the elements, but relatively slow speeds make it suited only to those who crave ...