It is easily possible to double the cost of a new M4 Mac mini by buying Apple storage — but if you know what you're doing, you can buy external drives, and save hundreds of dollars by working off ...

External solid-state drives (SSDs) are a work of art and an indispensable computer accessory. Older storage media like hard drives, CDs, and floppy disks came with so many compromises that people didn ...

My current Time Machine drive is a 4TB HDD I've been using for...probably like a decade at this point. It's been very reliable. But being an HDD, it has the obvious downsides of noise and slowness.