A little-noticed fact about M1-based Macs has started to get some attention. If the Mac’s internal drive is dead or fully erased, you can’t boot from an otherwise valid external drive. Why would Apple ...

Online backup service Backblaze will automatically back up any drive that's permanently connected to your Mac. So you can't easily have a rotating pile of drives you use for different purposes.

When internal surgery of a Mac isn't in the cards, an external SSD can rejuvenate a slow machine.

An external SSD can expand the storage available to your Mac or MacBook and add some serious speed. Here are the best SSD drives for your Mac.

Windows external SSD on Mac This is a much-requested follow up to our original Windows 10/external drive tutorial posted back in 2017.

If you're upgrading from an HDD to an SSD, make the most of the extra speed it offers by setting the SSD as your boot drive.

If you have bought an Apple Silicon Mac or MacBook but need to upgrade your storage without buying a brand new device, you can set up your Mac to run from an external drive. Here's how to boot ...

Reader Mark R. Friedman wrote in to ask about setting up a Mac Pro with an SSD in the second optical drive, keeping the /Users folder on another drive; he wasn't sure how to do it. Macworld just ...