Cloud storage is convenient, but it's not without its faults. There are quite a few reasons why backing data up to an external hard drive may be better.

You also should back up iPhones and iPads before upgrading to iOS 12 — but that can take a big chunk out of your Mac's storage. AppleInsider shows you how to stop clogging up your Mac's drive. You are ...

Expand your storage and protect your data with one of these external hard drives ...

As iPhone storage capacities increase each year with high-resolution photos and 4K videos, your iCloud storage and internal iPhone storage can fill up fast. Now it’s vital to ensure all your ...

You may have a few terabytes of space in your hard drive, but, that may not be enough. We need storage space for our work and personal files, our endless collection of images, and our software, apps, ...

External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to quickly back up your important files, as well as store any data that you don’t need on your computer ...

What to Do When Your External Storage Drive Won't Show Up External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your device is not ...

Never trust a new external drive with your backups until you run this test ...

After a while, messages, pictures and videos from your iPhone can consume hundreds of megabytes, or even gigabytes, of storage space. Whenever you back up your iPhone to your business PC with iTunes - ...

This is the third post in a series of posts describing a variety of home backup strategies and options. Now things start to get more interesting and viable. External drive backup has been the primary ...