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.

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.

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

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.

Western Digitals new 8MBbuffer line of Caviar drives proved to be a tough act to match.

When it comes to choosing the right hard disk for you, there are several factors that you have to consider.

The miracle of pocket portable data continues, with more storage in a smaller physical space.

Blisteringly fast but expensive for the capacity

Why is this external hard drive different from all other external hard drives?