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In 2026, you might have expected “storage” to be a largely solved problem, but somehow it never seems to last as long as we’d hope. Between galleries of pics, videos, and all the latest apps we’ve installed, device storage still fills up far too quickly — and we don’t even have microSD expansion anymore! Earlier…

If you need a simple place to back up a family PC’s photos and documents, the WD Elements 6TB is currently down to $315 (was $334) at Newegg. It plugs in and works with no setup software to wrangle.

Perhaps it’s just anecdotal, but USB thumb drives don’t seem as popular as they used to be. That would make sense, since they’ve been rendered unimportant or obsolete for many of the tasks they were built for. Technologies like email, chat and AirDrop make transferring small files a breeze. Larger files are often better stashed…

BLUETTI’s Elite 10 Mini drops to $119 at Amazon, bringing portable backup power to travel, camping, and short outages. By •

Modern cloud storage, the way we know it, has been around commercially since 2006, when Amazon launched its Simple Storage Service (S3). In the following years, personal cloud storage rose in popularity thanks to services like Dropbox and Google Drive. Back then, the idea of being able to access a few of your most important files…