Western Digital recently announced new data center HDDs that increase Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) capacity to 32TB and Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) capacity to 26TB. The ...

This Crucial X9 drive is ideal for your gaming PC or PlayStation 5, and can read at up to 1,050MB/s thanks to its USB 3.2 Gen ...

After Western Digital announced plans to separate its HDD and flash businesses back in 2023, that plan now appears to have ...

A new empty disk won’t initialize, you can simply format it, and then you can use it. Make sure to check the disk status if you can’t initialize the hard drive by reconnecting it. If no solution works ...

The best SSDs are easily the fastest way to make your gaming PC just a bit better. With the right storage, you can make your games load quicker, or even perform better in the case of some modern ...

In some ways, waiting might be worse: today’s games are not only increasingly massive, but have started demanding SSD storage specifically, leaving mechanical hard drives to deal with dreadfully ...

Nowadays, eMMC is all but extinct. It's faster than an old mechanical hard drive but can be slower and have less capacity than an SSD. eMMC storage was mostly found in phones, as well as some ...

Driving in New York City isn’t exactly *aesthetic*. That’s why it’s nice to sometimes take a drive out of the city to see beautiful country lanes and scenic highways. Seven Lakes Drive is an ...

with an external hard drive. Although, keep in mind that you won't be able to play PS5 games on an external drive. You can now store PS5 games on an external SSD though, you’ll just need to ...

Say goodbye to loading screens, and never again hear the noise of that traditional HDD spinning into a frenzy. Gen 5 PCIe SSDs are here now too, so if NVMe speeds seemed ludicrous already ...

Further reading: See our article on 7 ways to repurpose a SSD or hard drive that’s collecting dust. These suggestions might come in handy once you’ve purchased a new external drive.