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

Nanotech breakthrough sees quadrupling of capacities.

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

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.

Company should act now, say analysts.

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

The fundamental design of the hard drive remains unchanged since the 1960s, but smaller = better in the new age.

Travelstar 5K500 due next month.

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

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

The ubiquitous micro-hard drive has found its way into a PDA. palmOne yesterday announced the LifeDrive, a PDA with basic features, a large 320x480 colour screen and a 4GB Hitachi hard drive.

Blu-ray and HD DVD players will come out fighting this year. We reveal which format is best placed to be DVD’s successor.

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

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

Behemoth server and PC storage, with reliability features too.

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

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

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.

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