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

Western Digital MyBook Home Edition

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

Fine performance and features make this a worthy winner.

An easily managed appliance for small offices. Performance is modest, but it offers useful remote access features

A solid, assured drive with plenty of interfaces and enough style to justify the price.

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This is the ultimate in storage for massive movie or music collections, capable of holding 170 movies. You'll never need to click "delete" again.

Be the most connected home on the street with these tech toys for getting your family online.

So you want to make yourself a new gaming rig, one that’s capable of playing Crysis at more than two frames per second, but won’t blow the budget?

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Western Digital 1TB drive will cost $299 as TiVo gears up for more than 100 new Movie On Demand titles

Western digital has launched a 2TB enterprise HD. If you think that's big, it has a 64M cache to back it all up too.

We're not recommending you watch movies continuously for more than a month, but you could do it.

We put seven NAS drives from the likes of Maxtor, Netgear, Synology, Thecus, Western Digital and Iomega to the test to find out which is best for storing your files

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