If you're keeping an eye on the electronics world, you're already seeing price increases on all kinds of chips, from graphics cards to SSDs. If you have to back up some stuff, buy a new drive sooner ...

PC gaming has been off to a rough start in 2026, with both RAM and graphics cards facing massive stock issues, due to demand from AI datacenters. It looks like hard drives are next. Both Seagate and ...

Western Digital is introducing a couple of new technologies, dubbed "High Bandwidth Drive" and "Dual Pivot", that will significantly boost the performance of hard drives. According to Western Digital, ...

Keeping a hard drive on a drawer is probably the most common approach to storing files over the long term. A lot of people don't do it properly, though, to the point I've actually discouraged this ...

Wipe Your Drive with a Third-Party Disk Utility Wiping your storage drive from within the operating system is a quick and convenient method, but a third-party utility can provide greater security and ...

Maybe your gaming laptop doesn’t have enough storage. Or maybe you simply want to render your game library portable between systems. Rather than upgrade your internal storage — add a speedy external ...

No matter how many cute photos (or massive games, we don't judge) you need to store, these HDD and SSD discounts will get it done. I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at PCMag.com.