(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.

Portable hard drives are versatile in that they not only allow you to back up important business information such as clients, reports and tax information, they are mobile and can be used any time and ...

Remember when floppy disks were cutting edge? These days, 1.44 megabytes of memory might not even be enough to store one high-resolution compressed image, much less an entire album of digital photos.

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...