If you do just want to buy a pre-built one, be sure to check out PCWorld’s list of recommended external drives.

Western Digital’s 2TB Elements Portable USB 3.0 Hard Drive is $64.99 on StackSocial. offering fast transfers and a three-year warranty.

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Computers are mostly used to store essential papers and information, films, and images. Because there is a hard drive, all of these operations may be completed quickly and easily. 2 TB external hard ...

First off, a little context. I'm a 30+ year Mac user and I just bought my first PC in decades. I'm no stranger to Windows and Linux, but haven't used them as a desktop OS for about 15 years. My ...

USB 3.0 means fast transfers, while built-in data recovery offers one less thing to worry about when life strikes. Easy ...

Hewlett-Packard's USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a utility that you can use to format removable flash drives and other external USB hard drives. One benefit of using this tool is that you can create ...

It's good whenever you can rant in an appropriate thread, and you don't have to create a new one. Dear Western Digital, Listen up you inbred mongoloids. I need an external USB hard disk. I want an ...

Having a secondary boot volume is almost a necessity for troubleshooting some problems with Macs. Here are some options for creating boot disks. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

I often get asked about running hypervisors from portable storage devices and in this column, I'd like to talk about a method for installing and running XenServer 4.1 from a portable USB hard drive.