The highest hard drive speed in the world -- 15,000 RPM -- is now available in a 2.5" form factor.

Seagate's latest enterprise SAS bridges the gap between performance and capacity. Surely there's a trade-off somewhere here.

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

One of the practical devices for large back up jobs are external hard drive drives, which not only offer competitive capacities, but are easily portable and perfect for offsite storage. Maxtor's OneTouch II is pitched squarely at this type of application and, as the name suggests, makes it easier with a single button for back up.

A decent PC with media abilities bolted on, transforming this into a good lounge machine.

Everybody, who hasn’t already got one, wants a decent laptop.

At first glance, the Seagate Pocket Hard Drive appears very similar to a yo-yo in both size and mechanics. No, you won't be able to perform tricks with it, but … the attached USB cable does wrap around the device in a stringy sort of way.

If you don’t care about weight, this is what a laptop should be

Incredibly fast and silent, too, but solid-state is still far too expensive for the mainstream.

Another laptop hard drive series moves toward perpendicular storage.

Once upon a time, most people's treasured memories were stored in a couple of cardboard boxes. Now ioSafe's storage box promises to protect them at furnace temperatures up to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit.

Austere is the new brash, and nothing yells 'look at me' more than understated elgance.

Recognising that the Linux desktop market is only going to grow, and that there's money to made in the corporate arena, Sun's Java Desktop 2003 is squarely aimed at companies looking for a cheap, easy, and compatible alternative to Microsoft's (often expensive) dominance.

While 64-bit computing has been around for a while (for the two of you who could afford Intel's Itanium, and now Itanium II processors), the dream of 64-bittery for the humble home system has been a long time coming.