While the storage community eagerly awaits Serial ATA disks (see page 39), the latest generations of Ultra ATA disks have emerged, boasting huge capacities and searing performance.

All three of the A-series 120GXPs showed excellent all-round benchmark scores,

All three of the A-series 120GXPs showed excellent all-round benchmark scores,

All three of the A-series 120GXPs showed excellent all-round benchmark scores,

All three of the A-series 120GXPs showed excellent all-round benchmark scores,

IBM both developed and was the first to utilise GMR in its hard drives back in 1997.

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) has taken the wraps off the world's first 2TB 7,200rpm desktop hard drive..

Huge capacity, but not very quiet or good value

Although boasting the lowest average access time in the roundup at 12.2ms, looking at this drive's graphs, we notice a few more hiccups along the way than its big brother the 400GB Deskstar 7K400.

Five 200GB platters spinning at 7,200rpm in a 3.5in form factor.

The choice of hard disk will make a huge difference to overall system performance. Due to this, weve taken the advice of our own Labs team and chosen IBMs 30GB DeskStar 75GXP hard disk. Its a common i

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

At almost double the capacity of the other products in our roundup, this 400GB disk is big and fast, but unfortunately comes with an equally sized price tag.

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

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

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

A tad pricey but a well-built desktop DAS appliance with plenty of fault-tolerant storage and top performance

Fastest PC

Two external hard drives in lego-esque cases. One of them is worthy of our recommended stamp.

Up to Gateways usual high standard of build quality,