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Every Isolibris guide in one place, grouped by topic.
Fast SSD Drives
Small solid state drives for laptops, Macs and phones, compared by speed, size, toughness and the cable they use.
- How to Use an External SSD With Your Laptop
- Best External Hard Drives for MacBook Air
- Best External SSDs for Everyday Storage
- Best External SSDs for iPhone
Big Hard Drives
Portable and desktop hard drives from 1TB up, for whole-computer backups, photo libraries and files you want to keep for years.
- Best External Storage Drives for Home Computers
- Does an External Hard Drive Need Its Own Power?
- Best 4TB External Hard Drives
- Best Desktop External Hard Drives
- Best External Hard Drives for a Windows PC
- Best External Hard Drives for Long-Term Backup
- Best External Hard Drives for Photographers
Backup How-Tos
Step-by-step help for backing up a Windows PC, a phone or a photo collection, and for picking the right size drive.
- What Size External Hard Drive Do I Need?
- How to Back Up an Android Phone to an External Hard Drive
- How to Back Up Windows 11 to an External Drive
- What Is the Best Way to Back Up Photos?
Drive Care and Fixes
How long drives last, warning signs like clicking, safe ejecting, formatting, passwords and power questions.
- Do External Hard Drives Need to Be Formatted?
- How Long Do External Hard Drives Last?
- How to Password Protect an External Hard Drive
- How to Safely Eject an External Hard Drive on a PC or Mac
- How to Tell If an External Hard Drive Is Failing
- Why Is My External Hard Drive Clicking?
Drive Matchups
Side-by-side looks at SSD versus hard drive, drive versus cloud and NAS, and popular models against each other.
- External Hard Drive vs Cloud Storage
- External Hard Drive vs NAS for Home Backups
- Samsung T7 vs T7 Shield
- SSD vs HDD for Backup
- WD Elements vs My Passport
- WD My Passport vs Seagate Portable
- Samsung T7 Shield Review
- Samsung T9 Portable SSD Review
- WD Elements Portable Hard Drive Review