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

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

Data protection and drive reliability are both areas where a lot of hard disk manufacturers are investing a lot of time and money, making sure that your data is safe from any accidents.

One of the mantras of business computing is reliability. It all ties into TCO (total cost of ownership) - if a mission critical PC suffers a hardware failure, the resulting downtime can cost you a lot more than the price of an entire new system. As such, we in the PC Authority Labs always place a high emphasis on a good on-site warranty, such as that provided by a few manufacturers this month, including Pluscorp with its INTEQ V26.

The Hercules name is synonymous with quality and reliability, as well as blue-coloured graphics cards. Based around NVIDIA's new budget graphics chipset, the GeForce2 Titanium, the Hercules 3D Prophet II Titanium is Guillemot's latest offering, and it too is blue in colour.

Sony typically asks a little more than their competitors for similar products, but this usually pays off in the quality of workmanship and the reliability associated with most Sony products. The Sony VAIO VGN-S28GP is an extremely well-built notebook and should provide rock-solid performance for years to come.

Selecting a winner from the 11 cameras in the lab was not an easy task. While there was a $1300 variation between the cheapest and the dearest, the difference in quality and features was not as obvious. For example the Samsung D701i, which was the cheapest of the cameras, had more features than some of the cameras that were several hundred dollars dearer. The only problem was a question of reliability because the first unit to arrive at the Labs was inoperable.

It's a sign of the times when Compaq's Aero 8000 runs Windows CE in a box bigger than a Sharp PC-A250 (reviewed issue 23, p86) running Windows 98. So what's the big idea? Windows CE uses no moving parts, while software in ROM means immediate start-up times, high reliability, and long battery life all highly desirable qualities in a portable.

A very fast, well-built high-end PC. But a few niggles and high price keep it off the A-List.

Behemoth server and PC storage, with reliability features too.

A new interface and extra web-protection capabilities make AVG our top free antivirus choice

A latency monitor that can generate handy graphs about your broadband connection.

A tried-and-tested backup system that can easily cope with changing network environments.

Good value and high capacity, but performance is average

Fast, quiet and unbeatable value, the SpinPoint P120 is the clear leader here

A lightweight and cost efficient power supply.

The Thecus N5500 NAS is a pricey option for your storage needs, but its loaded with useful features and delivers decent performance.

Powerful, well price and a worthy addition to the A-List. The PacStar Core i7 is a PC we wouldn't be unhappy to take home and spend the weekend gaming on

Lenovo’s diminutive business portable packs in high performance, great battery life and top build quality.