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SanDisk's New MicroSD Cards Are Too Fast for Your Phone

The new A2 MicroSD cards will make adoptable portable storage feel like local storage on Android phones.

By Sascha Segan

Why Your Next PC Should Have an SSD

If you can afford to get a solid-state drive in your next computer (and you probably can), do it.

Western Digital Offers World's First 14TB Hard Drive

These huge helium-filled hard drives promise 60 percent lower idle power use per terabyte compared to 8TB air-filled drives.

By Matthew Humphries

WD Blue 3D SSD (M.2) Review

4.0
Editors' Choice

The 2017 3D NAND-based version of WD's Blue SSD is an overall excellent mainstream SATA drive, with dead-on performance matched by tenacious endurance.

By Josh Norem

SanDisk Sets New Record With 400GB MicroSD Card

It's only taken them two years to double the capacity of these tiny cards.

By Matthew Humphries

Give Western Digital's My Cloud Home All Your Data

The new My Cloud Home drive connects to your router via Wi-Fi and backs up files on all of your family's devices, including PCs, smartphones and tablets.

By Tom Brant

Western Digital My Book Duo Offers 'Colossal' 20TB of Storage

Have a ton of photos, videos, documents, and music to store? Western Digital's new My Book Duo is its highest capacity external desktop storage system yet.

By Angela Moscaritolo

WD My Passport SSD (1TB) Review

4.0

The My Passport SSD is a well-rounded external SSD with on-point performance, fine software, and a tiny design. It's not the hands-down fastest, but it's plenty speedy enough for general use.

By Josh Norem

Western Digital Announces 96-Layer Flash Memory Chips

As Intel starts shipping SSDs containing 64-layer chips, Western Digital prepares their replacement for next year.

By Matthew Humphries

10 Bizarre PC Storage Formats That Didn't Quite Cut It

Data backup is important, but think twice before using one of these formats.

By Benj Edwards

Tired of Netflix? Try a NAS

Western Digital's My Cloud Pro will now support the Plex media server, which recently gained the ability to play and record live TV from a tuner card.

By Tom Brant

Western Digital G-Drive USB-C Juices Up Your Laptop

The new G-Drive USB-C external storage device provides up to 45 watts of charging capability through the USB-C port, so you can charge your laptop when you're backing up your files.

By Angela Moscaritolo

Western Digital Launches its First Portable SSD

515MB/s transfer speeds, hardware encryption, and up to 1TB of storage in a palm-sized USB 3.1 drive.

By Matthew Humphries

Western Digital My Book Review

4.5
Editors' Choice

The 8TB version of the Western Digital My Book is a deep well of affordable storage for your photos, music, videos, and more.

By Joel Santo Domingo

Japanese Research Team Creates 'Eternal Storage'

Storage with a similar density to hard drives, but lasts for over 1,000 years

By Matthew Humphries

Western Digital Doubles Density of 3D NAND Memory Chips

512Gb 64-layer 3D NAND chips are an industry first, promising larger and cheaper SSDs.

By Matthew Humphries

SanDisk's Extreme Pro USB 3.1 Flash Drive Is Extremely Fast

420MB/s read speeds and 380MB/s write speeds are thanks to USB 3.1.

By Matthew Humphries

WD Blue SSD Preview

The WD Blue SSD neatly occupies the area between budget and high-performance storage, offering a fast, but cost-effective internal solid-state drive.

By Matthew Buzzi

Western Digital My Passport (2016, 1TB) Review

3.5

The 1TB Western Digital My Passport is a utilitarian portable hard drive that features a fun design and solid performance at a decent price.

By Victoria Song

Western Digital My Passport (2016, 4TB) Review

4.0

The 4TB Western Digital My Passport is a solid portable hard drive that combines capacity and value with funky design and good performance.

By Victoria Song