Most of us treat our smartphone's charging port as if its sole job is to keep the battery alive. But that little port is much ...

USB drives are convenient and compact, but despite their small footprint, they can offer substantial storage capacity, going all the way up to 4TB.

A single PCIe 4.0 lane offers 2 GB/s of bandwidth. A standard x4 slot meant for network and storage extension cards can provide up to 8 GB/s. Compare that to a typical high-speed USB 3.2 Gen 2 port, ...