Editors' note: This post was originally published on May 10, 2016 and is periodically updated. The cloud is great. But if you need a serious amount of storage, online backup is never quite enough.

The good old mechanical portable hard drive lives on, but for how long?

Fact: the current capacity of hard drives is constantly growing. Fact: data volumes are rising accordingly. Fact: the time it takes to analyse these data volumes, as well as to backup and evaluate ...

(2) A magnetic disk drive that plugs into a USB port on a computer. Used for transport as well as backup and additional storage, portable hard drives rival the capacity of many internal hard drives.

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