Our benchmark suite puts solid-state drives and hard drives to the ultimate test. Here's how PC Labs runs and reports its storage benchmarks—and what they mean to you.

For as little as $10 (or even less), you can use an old drive as external storage, but will that dusty drive deliver the speed you need?

Which external solid-state drive is best? As software becomes more complex and file sizes continue to grow, there will come a point where you won’t have enough native storage left on your computer.