What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.

Does your computer feel slow? Are you unhappy with how fast data transfers take? It's time to test your drive performance.

Laptop drive almost full? Need to back up your photos? Desktop-size and portable platter storage has never been cheaper. Our deep-dive reviews help you track down the right external hard drive.

Faster controllers, connectors, and NVMe SSDs have ushered in a new generation of hyper fast external drives and the latest contender for the performance crown is the GigaDrive, which hit ...

The speed will likely be bottlenecked by the enclosure, anyway. But if you want a future-proofed drive, our favorite PCIe 4.0 SSD is the 2TB Solidigm P44 Pro.

The SE920 immediately achieved 2992MBps for writes and 3161 MBps for reads The test results in the Blackmagicdesign Disk Speed Test were similar.

The Kingston IronKey Vault Privacy 80 Encrypted External SSD won't win awards for speed, but it will certainly keep your portable data safe.

The Crucial X6 4TB Portable SSD is a cost-effective pocket-sized external SSD ideal for on-the-go storage for your Mac, with decent access speeds.