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

While the storage community eagerly awaits Serial ATA disks (see page 39), the latest generations of Ultra ATA disks have emerged, boasting huge capacities and searing performance.

The Caviar 'BB' series disks from Western Digital are designed to be good, solid mid-level drives with decent all-round performance.

The Caviar 'BB' series disks from Western Digital are designed to be good, solid mid-level drives with decent all-round performance.

The Caviar 'BB' series disks from Western Digital are designed to be good, solid mid-level drives with decent all-round performance.

Western Digital MyBook Home Edition

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.

What's sure to become a must-have in portable drives, the Western Digital 1TB Blue Scorpio drive has just become our next most wanted piece of computer hardware.

Oodles of storage and middling performance, but found lacking

A great desktop drive but you can get this capacity and similar performance for less

Western Digital has announced its range of 250GB SATA laptop hard drives, and we have the first unit in the country under the microscope.

The contribution of ICT workers has been under-estimated.

Fine performance and features make this a worthy winner.

One of the cheapest 500GB drives here, but this is reflected in the lack of features and slow transfer speeds.

High capacity, good performance and affordable. The Caviar is a great alternative to the Samsung

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Behemoth server and PC storage, with reliability features too.

Western Digital markets this drive as a special edition drive for higher performance needs, but in our labs, not only has it been beaten by all other SATA drives, but its own IDE counterpart.

Also known as the 'EB' series, the Protg disks are Western Digital's budget 5,400rpm option.