High-capacity desktop drives have never been so affordable. Darien Graham-Smith puts 23 to the test to find the best

Strong performance and noticeably quieter than its predecessor. The Barracuda 7200.12 1TB is more than good enough for an OS drive, but also good bottomless storage for your movies and music

Good value and high capacity, but performance is average

Seagate delivers a carnivorous drive, and does something to curb our fears of data loss.

Monster storage; plus a choice of professional SAS or consumer SATA interfaces and reliability to boot.

For those users after goliath capacity drives with fast seek and access times, there's the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus.

Up against some very tough competition, Seagate's Barracuda 7200.7 managed to take out the coveted Labs winner award this month with its fantastic attributes.

A one terabyte SAS drive that isn't has been launched. We find out more from Seagate's engineers.

Beautifully engineered and constructed, the Mac Pro is also the fastest PC we’ve ever seen by some margin.

Dual-core and FireWire may be missing, but Pacstar’s system offer’s more than we expected from a value PC.

Narrowly edged out of the winning position by the extremely capable Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 drive, this drive has plenty to crow about.

Many customers unable to access data.

If your PC is lacking storage space then give it some extra room with these four internal hard disks.

Very fast, but the top-end components offer poor value in the face of competition.

Our poor receptionist didn’t quite know what to do when Altech’s monolithic machine turned up. She had a point.

Behemoth server and PC storage, with reliability features too.

How much capacity and how many drives do you need? We look at a selection of storage options

One of the practical devices for large back up jobs are external hard drive drives, which not only offer competitive capacities, but are easily portable and perfect for offsite storage. Maxtor's OneTouch II is pitched squarely at this type of application and, as the name suggests, makes it easier with a single button for back up.

For those that can't stand miserly 80GB drives, the 320GB Momentus is the big daddy of fast laptop drives..

A stylish, silent well-featured Media Center PC at a decent price.