Apart from using Task Manager to check the read and write speeds, you can also use third-party software to assess the speed of your USB flash drive or external hard drive on a Windows 11/10 PC.

Think your hard drive might be failing? Here’s how to test your SSD or HDD and catch problems early.

The new WD Black SN8100 is one of the fastest PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs I've tested, but apparent incompatibilities with our old test bed had write performance at times dipping to SATA speeds. On the new ...