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

It may lack eSATA, but this is a fast and cheap terabyte drive.

The LaCie Little Big Disk Quadra is less than the size of a Harry Potter book, yet crams in two 500GB 2.5in hard disks.

Smart and easy to use, and can be positioned vertically or horizontally

This aluminium storage box is a prime candidate for a living-room media network, especially if you need 1TB of storage space.

Clean lines undermined by poor performance and a high price.

Inexpensive, but a frugal assortment of features

LaCie launches a handy gadget that converts your SD info into USB format, and looks the part while doing it

We put seven NAS drives from the likes of Maxtor, Netgear, Synology, Thecus, Western Digital and Iomega to the test to find out which is best for storing your files

Is your PC’s hard disk getting cramped? Invest in an external hard disk and never again worry about running out of room.

Quick, cheap and light: the best 3.5in drive in the group.

A comprehensive set of features and good performance

With more homes served by their own wired and wireless networks, there’s no better way to store all your music, movies and documents than a NAS box like this

A solid, assured drive with plenty of interfaces and enough style to justify the price.

Light on features, but it’s tiny and ferociously quick.