WDC, STX and SNDK slide over 10% in a month, but rising AI and cloud storage demand could drive strong upside for these beaten-down stocks.

External hard drives can be moved between systems, reformatted at will, and repurposed without risking the data or stability of a primary computer.

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...