I have one of those "external" external hard drives that isn't an exclosure per se but is more just an open dock to vertically slide an exposed SATA hard drive into. I have it plugged into my Mac Mini ...

OWC has announced a new line of portable hard drives. The new Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini line features aluminum cases, bus powered drives, and quad interfaces. The Mercury Elite-AL Pro mini case design ...

Why we like it: It rules our Top 10 Portable Hard Drives chart. The Iomega eGo 500GB Portable Hard Drive performed well across the board in our PCWorld Labs tests, earning it first place on our Top 10 ...

USB is usually a safe bet, and equipping an external hard drive exclusively with USB 2.0 means that almost any modern computer can use it. But USB 2.0’s pokey performance lags behind the eSATA and ...