T he Crucial X9 surprised me a little. I've spent so much time with 20 Gbps external drives that I forgot the simple ...

The only case with hard drives where the USB standard matters much is if you connect a drive to an old-style, low-bandwidth USB 2.0 port, which is better reserved for items like keyboards and mice.

It's good news for anyone looking to back up their entire collection of Xbox games.

Xbox Series X/S owners have something to look forward to as upgrades for the storage capacity of the consoles are being ...

And, of course, you should always have an external ... with 1TB drives costing around $100/£150, whereas that same amount of money can get you a 4TB basic desktop hard drive with a USB interface ...

Example: A $60 1TB (1,000GB) hard drive would run you about 6 cents per gigabyte, while an $80 2TB (2,000GB ... but these days, most external hard drives use a flavor of USB or, in rare cases ...