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

This is the kind of workstation that budding 3D artists have wet dreams over. It packs two Hyper-Threaded 3.06GHz Xeon processors – currently the best workstation processors on offer from Intel – a gigabyte of RAM and a 10,000rpm SCSI hard drive. In short, you'll be hard pressed to find a faster workstation without forking out the $15,000 or so for a blazing Silicon Graphics machine.

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

Comparatively pricey, but IBM delivers a quality rack-server package.

Gigabyte's new Canterwood-based GA-8KNXP is, without a doubt, one of the most full-featured motherboards we've ever seen. It incorporates all of the basics offered by the MSI 865PE Neo2 (see below) plus more. The differences between the older 845 and new 865 (Springdale) and 875 (Canterwood) chipsets are primarily feature-based – the 875P is designed to be the ultra-high-end option for extreme power users. As such, it's more expensive but has more niche capabilities.

This rather unusual system from MCT has a bit of everything.

How could a motherboard possibly cost over $1,000? The short answer is: if it has everything built in. The 8KNXP is geared towards the server market, and is the only board in this Labs with an Ultra360 SCSI controller.

Why are we reviewing something that is a mere 36GB? Simple -- because this one drops access times and pumps up the transfer rate. Not targeted at the home user, the 36GB WD Raptor is marketed as an enterprise-level SATA drive -- the fastest drive on offer by WD. Capacity becomes an afterthought for the Raptor with its 10,000rpm spindle concerning itself with speed, resulting in seek times of around 5.2ms, compared to the 8.9ms of a 7,200rpm drive.

Epson are marketing this scanner as a versatile unit, capable of meeting the demands of home, school, office and graphics users.

The DAT 160 breathes new life into the format and provides a firm upgrade path for users of DAT 72 and DDS-4.

if you are looking for a top performance drive with a reasonable capacity and terrific price, then the Western Digital Expert simply cannot be beaten.

This motherboard is a promising appetiser – although the real meal is yet to come.

A reliable means of backing up virtual machines to prevent disasters.

More tools and good support options are just some of the highlights of this server package.

Adaptec could offer a higher storage capacity for the price, but the 650 certainly delivers on performance and features.

HP gets the best out of iSCSI with a smart backup appliance that’s easy to manage and good value for small businesses.

Upgrading and Repairing PCs is now on its 11th Edition, and it just keeps growing.

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