eSATA is another legacy port that’s disappeared from newer devices. Created for attaching external storage to your computer’s SATA bus, eSATA was a cheap way in its day to move beyond the ...

Remember how this fall’s Lunar Lake laptops ditched the idea of memory sticks, putting a fixed amount of RAM on the processor ...

but if you’re going to be regularly reading and writing to your external storage (for example, doing video editing right from the drive itself rather than from your computer’s system drive ...

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A hard drive or solid state drive (SSD) that resides outside the computer's case, typically connecting via USB or eSATA. A flash drive is also external storage. See portable drive and USB drive.

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MSI Datamag 20Gbps Portable SSD: Pricing TBA MSI's first external SSD offers NVMe-like ... Warranty No IP Rating MSI's been selling internal storage for a while now, and its ...