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

Video-on-demand servers running smoothly.

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

Nanotech breakthrough sees quadrupling of capacities.

Like most Gateway machines, the case is solid and the internal layout is very clean offering plenty of space to get in and exchange components or install drives.

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

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

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.

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

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

Inconsistent results kept the Hitachi's score low – especially as it was unable to provide decent real-world performance.

The second Panasonic submitted, the PT-LC76E rated higher than its sister model -- with even better performance for both office and home real world tests - and came only second to the Hitachi CPS210 overall.

One of the most barren models feature-wise that we looked at (and only dubiously beating the Sony VPL-ES1 and the Sanyo PLC-SW30 which took the bottom honours), the Hitachi CPS210 certainly made up for it when it came time to undergo our strenuous testing regime.

A decent performer, but it struggles with small files

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.

Blisteringly fast but expensive for the capacity

While hard disk drive speed is commonly one of the last considerations when putting together a new machine, its importance is more than just a place to store your files and operating system.

Hitachi’s PJ-TX10 is the monster of the group – in that it’s by far the biggest and the heaviest projector.