Each year at PCMag, our experts review dozens of hard drives and solid-state drives (SSDs). We put each drive we review through our rigorous testing regimen at PC Labs, tailored to the specific type ...

Storage drives have a tendency to fail when you least expect it. A traditional hard drive may give you a warning with clicking or grinding sounds, but an SSD has no moving parts to make a fuss.

Hollywood has a long history of grossly exaggerating hacking scenes. A nerdy guy hacking into a large corporation in seconds with just a few keystrokes is a classic example of an overused movie trope.