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

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

Now a hard drive manufacturer is talking about switching to the super fast solid state drives.

Good value and high capacity, but performance is average

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

Huge capacity, but not very quiet or good value

A decent performer, but it struggles with small files

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

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

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.

Behemoth server and PC storage, with reliability features too.

Worldwide hard drive shipments fell by 1,704 units in the first quarter of2006.

Offering 40GB of storage, the Iomega drive is very small for its capacity, measuring a mere 8.89 x 7.37 x 1.27cm. It weighs just over 99 grams, which means it's unnoticeable in your pocket. The internal drive is a 40GB Hitachi TravelStar C4K40 -- a new form-factor hard drive, measuring a mere 1.8 inches across (a normal notebook hard drive is 2.5in, a desktop drive 3.5) -- and only about 7mm thick.

40 per cent drop in 12 months.