Whether your Mac is running out of space or you just want a cheaper way to upgrade your storage, an external drive is a ...

The fast and reliable Elements 5TB portable hard drive is the way to ward off catastrophic data and file loss, and it's just $110 at Amazon.

Apple's computers are available with a generous amount of hard drive space, from 256 GB all the way to 8 TB on high-end models. While that may be plenty of space for most users, video editing, ...

While drives are sold as plug-and-play, formatting prior to use will give you optimal performance and compatibility with your Mac. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

Mounting an external hard drive isn't as simple as plugging it in. We'll walk you through some decisions you need to make. Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering ...

I feel old saying this, but having used computers since before external hard drives existed, I can say with certainty that buying a hard drive is easier today than it’s ever been before. For ...

Solid-state drives – aka SSD – used to be really expensive, but prices have really fallen in the past few years, and you can now pick up fast, reliable SSDs that cost only slightly more than their ...

Adding an external hard drive to your Mac is a cost-effective and easy way to expand your storage capacity. Not only is it simply a matter of plugging the drive into a free USB port on the computer, ...

Your Mac is hiding things from you – files and folders, that is. The macOS file system allows most folders to be flagged as either visible or hidden. Many of the hidden ones are housekeeping or ...

Earlier this year, I wrote several guides to boost the speeds of older Macs by swapping their internal hard drives for super-fast solid state drives (SSDs). As readers have confirmed, their older ...

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