As cheap as storage is per gigabyte nowadays ... an older standard like USB 2.0. Make sure your external hard drive uses at least USB 3.0 (which is about ten times faster than USB 2.0 by comparison).

With these early Black Friday deals you can add some additional storage space for your laptop or desktop computer for cheap.

External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka direct-attached storage ... It might not be as cheap as the Crucial X6, but for the extra outlay you get outstanding everyday performance.

[Joonas] became frustrated with cheap but crappy MIDI to USB converters, and the better commercial ones were beyond his budget. He used a Teensy LC to build one for himself and it did the job ...

(1) An external storage or optical disc drive that plugs into the USB port. See portable hard drive. (2) A small solid state storage module that plugs into the computer's USB port. Emerging just ...