Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

I know some of the basic theory, I'm just wondering if anyone's actually had any experience with them? I have never seen such a product, but to be fair I haven't ever looked for one either. I see a ...

External USB/Thunderbolt SSDs and/or hard drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to add storage capacity to your system as well as back it up. External drives are also ...

With its built-in USB 3.0 hub, 8TB capacity, and solid storage performance, Seagate's Backup Plus Hub is certainly a solution worth a look. With our requirements for storage growing so quickly, new ...

Fast and massive, the Seagate Backup Plus Desktop is an excellent backup drive for any USB 3.0-enabled computer or server. Dong Ngo Former SF Labs Manager, Editor Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been ...

This is the third post in a series of posts describing a variety of home backup strategies and options. Now things start to get more interesting and viable. External drive backup has been the primary ...

an external drive to recover with connotes a bootable drive, while a backup drive is just formatted partition(s). effectively, you need to build an OS disk with recovery tools, in order to have a ...

If you've got an old printer gathering dust because it doesn't have Wi-Fi, you can bring it back to life by connecting it to ...

After a while, messages, pictures and videos from your iPhone can consume hundreds of megabytes, or even gigabytes, of storage space. Whenever you back up your iPhone to your business PC with iTunes - ...

As external 2.5-inch hard drives have become mostly a commodity item, the G-Drive mobile USB-C’s type C connector and thin good looks stand it in good stead. It’s not the fastest we’ve tested, but ...