Want to perform an extreme makeover of your system's motherboard, processor, memory or hard disk? We'll show you how.

Store it in your pocket. PC Authority takes fifteen USB drives for a spin around the block.

Ever wondered what a particular acronym stands for? Find the answer in our comprehensive reference guide to computer industry acronyms. RTFM!

With the increasing size of operating systems, games and the broadband smorgasbord of music and movies, it's just a matter of time before that dreaded message box pops up to tell you just how little space you have left.

Many customers unable to access data.

Desktop hard drive runs quiet and goes easy on the power.

Hard drives used to be the coolest thing - in the olden days, when all home PCs were slow, a hard drive was often a measure of how 'good' your computer was. For quite sometime, however, processor and graphics technology stole the limelight. Hard drives have been taken for granted - an ambient component that accompanies your sparkling graphics card and gi-normous heat sink.

No moving parts promises greater reliability.

Capacity? Value for money? Who's got what? Read on to find out who has the best marriage of both.

This month we’ve taken 12 of the fastest optical drives, run them through their paces and sorted the award winners from the less than impressive performers.

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.

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.

There are almost as many acronyms for the various standards of DVD as there are companies involved in DVD development.

When it comes to CD-RW drives, both the Sony models in the Labs this month represent top quality and performance.

Memory maker Kingston has expanded its range of solid state drives (SSDs) with the introduction of the SSDNow V+ series, aimed at performance users..

While hard disk drive speed is commonly one of the last considerations when putting together a new machine, its importance is more than just a place to store your files and operating system.

Flash-based devices due in 2008.

Your photos, music and data are just a virus or hard disk failure away from oblivion. Build a triple-layer defence using PC Authority's practical guide.