The best external SSDs offer speeds that just aren't possible with older external hard drives. They're also lighter, more reliable and a bit more expensive.

An external hard drive is simply any HDD or SSD — just like the ones found in laptops and desktop PCs — that’s inside an external enclosure. ... Up to 35% off HP, ...

Since it is so portable, it may get banged up a little more than bulkier laptops, so we decided to swap out the existing 250GB Toshiba hard drive with an OCZ Apex 120GB SSD. This particular drive ...

The HP External Hard Drive (1TB) ($169.99 direct) combines the next-generation speeds of USB 3.0 and 1TB of storage space, all in a portable pocket-sized package.

You should not buy the HP Portable SSD P500 1TB; instead, if you’re after an external SSD, grab its faster, cheaper, more widely available bigger sibling, the P700, you will thank us afterwards ...

The external hard drive is aptly named, since it really is simple. You just plug the drive into a USB port, and it quickly begins to back up your data. The drive automatically scans the hard ...

In our tests with a NVMe SSD Kingston SNV2S/1000G and a Ugreen CM642 with PCIe 4.0 on a USB 4 port with 40Gbps, the external drive delivered a good 2,500MBps in read and a good 2,050MBps in write ...

Unlike external hard drives, internal ones don't have a casing or a USB port that lets you connect them directly to other devices. Fortunately, there's a simple fix: an SSD enclosure.