Storage Devices Reviews and Rankings

Best Hard Drive Dock NEW

Winner: StarTech 4 Bay Hard Drive Docking Station SATDOCK4U3E
External enclosed drives work well when you only need a single place to store data, but hard drive docks give you the freedom of quickly and easily...

Best Blu-Ray Burner

Winner: Sony BD-5300S-0B Internal Blu-ray Writer
Blu-ray burners are no longer priced out of reach of the average consumer. These days, a quality drive can be obtained for less than $100. On the other...

Best SSD

There are so few reasons not to invest in a solid-state drive anymore. What's better about SSDs compared to traditional hard drives? No moving parts -- which means SSDs are smaller, cooler, more power-efficient, more...

Best Hard Drive Enclosure

Winner: Rosewill RX358 RX-358-U3B Full Aluminum USB 3.0 External Enclosure for SATA Hard Drive
For portable convenience, extra capacity, backup and archiving, or any combination, nothing beats a quality external drive. Ready-made models may be good...

Best External Hard Drive

Winner: Toshiba Canvio HDTC607XK3A1 Portable External 750 GB 2.5" Hard Drive
For the mainstream user, the external hard drive serves various purposes. You may simply need to expand your storage capacity without the trouble of...

Best Portable External Hard Drive

Winner: Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0/USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive
Portable hard drives are essentially laptop 2.5" hard disk drives in an enclosure. Due to their lower power draw than conventional 3.5" desktop hard...

Best Hard Drive (Internal)

Winner: WD Caviar Black 1TB Hard Drive
Performance, reliability, and storage capacities are the most important factors when shopping for a PC hard drive. But GB/$ also plays an important role in...

Best Durable USB Flash Drive

Winner: Corsair Flash Survivor USB Flash Drive
The USB flash drive is the easiest way to store all your files, from Powerpoint presentations to videos and mp3s, and carry them with you anywhere. The...

Best High Capacity Internal Hard Drive

Winner: Seagate Barracuda XT ST32000641AS
Remember when a terabyte was a big deal? Now 2TB is common, 3TB is barely worth raising an eyebrow, and a new crop of 4TB hard drives is currently...

Best Hard Drive for RAID / Enterprise

Winner: Intel X25-M Gen 2 160GB MLC SSD 2.5" Solid State Drive
RAID-edition or "Enterprise" hard drives have a niche in RAID use because they are rated by the manufacturer to be more reliable, offer better...

Best Performance USB Flash Drive

Winner: Patriot Memory 16GB Xporter XT USB Flash Drive
Although USB flash drives are not generally known for fast data transfer speeds, there are certain models out there which promise just that. The top...

Best RAID Controller Card

Winner: Areca ARC-1880i PCI-Express 2.0 RAID Controller Card
Chances are, your motherboard is pretty good at RAID. Most modern mainstream-to-enthusiast mobos can handle standard RAID setups that will satisfy the...

Best High Capacity External HD

Winner: Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1TB USB 3.0/USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive
Whether you need portable media or stationary backup, the higher-capacity external drives give you storage to spare. There are fewer tradeoffs than ever;...

Best External DVD Burner

Winner: Sony Optiarc CD / DVD Burner DRX-S77U
While Blu-ray may be the next big thing, DVDs are still a very popular form of media, but many thin laptops and small desktops nowadays are shipping...

Best 1 TB External Hard Drive

Winner: Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive
Hard drive capacities are growing at an incredible rate. Today, the largest single drives can cram three terabytes of data into a single drive bay. While...

Best Notebook Hard Drive

Winner: Seagate Momentus 500 GB Hard Drive
While SSDs have arrived on the market, they are still much too expensive for the average notebook user. Most notebooks and netbooks still use mechanical...