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A photo of a Seagate FireCuda X Vault external hdd, resting on a computer desk
Seagate FireCuda X Vault review

By Nick Evanson Published

Score: 80% Big on size, big on capacity, not that big on price.

Score: 80%
A battery of WD hard drives.
A Redditor tries to return a failed enterprise HDD to Toshiba, but it turns out that a replacement would take at least a year to arrive

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News 2026 is not the year for upgrades OR replacements, it seems.

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An image of the best external hard drives on a red background with the PC Gamer recommended badge
Best external hard drives in 2026: the storage media I'd take on my own gaming adventures

By Nick Evanson Last updated

TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.

TB on the go
The high-capacity Seagate BarraCuda 24TB HDD floats in a void.
You can scoop up a beefy 24 TB HDD for less than 1₵ per GB in the Prime Day sales, proving that old school hard drives are still alive and kicking

By Jess Kinghorn Published

Prime Day Left in the dust, but not out for the count.

Prime Day
WD Elements Hard drive on a pink background
Save $110 and get 14 TB of storage for the same price as 8 TB, with this external HDD Prime Day deal

By James Bentley Published

Prime Day Store everything.

Prime Day
Two angles of Buffalo's HD-SKL, a HDD mounted in a picture frame-style. The surface has a transparent window, allowing users to see the HDD function while in use. Two of this HDD float in a blue-pink gradient void.
This transparent HDD from Buffalo is both beautiful and woefully impractical—just how I like my tech

By Jess Kinghorn Published

News She is beauty, she is grace, she's got my finger smears all over her transparent face.

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A still from a YouTube Short showing an HDD that's been converted into a disc sander, sharpening a scalpel blade
I'm getting major tool envy from this hard drive converted into a variable speed disc sander and I don't care who knows it

By Andy Edser Published

News Do I need one? Not really. Want one? Oh yes.

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A photo of a robotically disassembled hard disk drive
Microsoft's recyclobot uses machine learning and computer vision to open and recycle 90% of hard drive components

By Nick Evanson Published

news Beats smashing them up with a big hammer, though it's not quite as therapeutic.

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Hard Drive
Millions of perfectly fine HDDs are shredded each year because of 'zero risk' security policies. Spoiler alert: There's still a risk of stolen data from just a 3mm scrap

By Katie Wickens Published

news There are better, safer, greener ways to deal with old hard drives.

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IBM100 RAMDAC
Hard drives predicted to be history after 2028

By Jeremy Laird Published

News Just five years until the very last HDD is sold.

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