The good old mechanical portable hard drive lives on, but for how long?

Today we’re taking a look at another portable hard disk, this time from ADATA. The HD710 Pro (product link) is a solid piece of equipment for the active person on the go. It doesn’t really matter what ...

LaCie Rugged Safe Portable hard drives are smaller and easier to tote around than typical external desktop drives. Some feature case designs that reduce impact shock. With portable hard drives, USB is ...

(2) A magnetic disk drive that plugs into a USB port on a computer. Used for transport as well as backup and additional storage, portable hard drives rival the capacity of many internal hard drives.

At IFA last month, Sharge was showing off a number of new products as they normally do. But one product that caught my eye was the Disk Pro. This is an external SSD that I’ve now taken on a couple of ...

Editor’s note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid ...