In those rare occasions where that won’t work, a USB thumb drive will do. It wasn’t always this way, and it was much more confusing; back in the day when we had floppy drives. We had floptical ...

When connecting to the computer, most external enclosures for 2.5-inch hard drives make do with USB 3.2 Gen1 (formerly USB 3.0). The theoretical transfer speed here is a maximum of 5Gbps.

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 ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured ... CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable storage ...

But wait, surely this is a solved problem? Why not just pick up a cheap USB floppy drive from the A to Z online retailer we all love to hate? Unfortunately, these gadgets are something of a mixed bag.

What Happened: The SuperDrive, an external ... a USB-C adapter for use with modern Macs. The term SuperDrive was first coined by Apple in 1988 with the launch of its 1.44 MB 3.5-inch floppy drive.

We have been testing out a number of 18TB Seagate Expansion External HDDs from Seagate (Model STKP18000402) for some time now and have had some great success to talk about. A drive that is no shy ...

Storage capacities evolved to 250MB and 750MB in 1998 and 2002 respectively, but the USB and FireWire-based 750MB drives could only read but not write 100MB cartridges. The Zip was a floppy-like ...

Most of the first series of Macs included internal 3.5-inch floppy drives. Later, Apple sold several models of the same drive in an external case with a cable to connect to the back of the Mac.

Interface: Check the interface of the external hard drive to make sure it's compatible with your computer or device. Common interfaces include USB 3.0, USB-C, Thunderbolt, and eSATA. Portability ...