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

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

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

They're not obsolete yet. Capacity isn't the only saving grace for hard drives, with Hitachi spinning out 7,200 rpm devices.

Hitachi pioneered the concept of recording digital video direct to DVD . Now into its third generation of DVD cameras, a few competitors have appeared on the horizon with its first generation models

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

We’ve seen products like Silicon Memory’s ClearLight range of portable hard drives before, yet the ClearLight has some of the most solid yet attractive plastic housing we’ve reviewed.

Company should act now, say analysts.

Hitachi DZ-MV100A

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

Video-on-demand servers running smoothly.

Nanotech breakthrough sees quadrupling of capacities.

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

Good value and high capacity, but performance is average

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

Burn straight onto a disc or choose the hybrid HDD model.

Capacity? Value for money? Who's got what? Read on to find out who has the best marriage of both.

Travelstar 5K500 due next month.

Huge capacity, but not very quiet or good value