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External hard drives are essential pieces of equipment for photographers and videographers looking to store, back up, or transfer their catalog of images. Unlike the internal hard drive that sits ...

The Seagate Expansion boasts a single 22TB disk drive so it's physically no bigger than any other desktop hard drive. It ...

The Seagate 22TB HDD offers enough capacity for massive photo libraries and years of accumulated digital content in one device, and Amazon just dropped this drive to a record low of $229 for Black ...

Whether you’re working on a laptop or a tablet, a lack of internal storage can literally clog up your day. You can run a disk cleanup to clear up some clutter, but if you’re simply out of precious ...

LaCie Starck Desktop Hard Drive A hard disk drive (or HDD, commonly called a hard drive) contains spinning platters with magnetic surfaces, and mechanical arms with heads that read and write data on ...

Backing up your computer is great practice for good digital hygiene, and keeping your important documents and photos safe on an external hard drive can make a PC crash or virus problem much less ...

External hard drives can sometimes continually spin and become exceptionally hot. Here are some ways to manage this to help prolong the life of your drive. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

An external hard drive is a great way to add massive storage to any system. The humble hard drive has been at the heart of modern PCs for decades, and though SSDs have taken the performance crown, ...

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