Fun with a cheap and powerful Serially Attached SCSI card and 15,000 RPM drives in a blistering RAID 0 configuration.

Fun with a cheap and powerful Serially Attached SCSI card and 15,000 RPM drives in a blistering RAID 0 configuration.

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

Solid state 1GB and 2GB drives target low cost computers.

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

Think outside the case by putting drives to work.

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.

Once you’ve read this article, your hard drive could be melted in 30 seconds. “Digital Shredding” technology is now available.

Password-stealing Trojan found on new drives.

Looking to build your dream machine? We explore the latest components on the market, and give you advice on which ones to hunt down, along with the general price you can expect to pay for each major component.

Does dropping a hard disk from a third floor window or dunking it in a cup of tea mean curtains for your data? We visit Ontrack's data recovery labs to find out.

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.

Just over four months on from our massive hard drive roundup (October 2002, page 74), and Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks have finally arrived. Phew.

In order to control distribution of movies and prevent piracy, many most DVDs are region protected to ensure that they cannot be played outside of their region of issue. In short, this means you can't play American DVDs on an Australian player and vice versa. To further complicate the matter, PC and notebook DVD drives are locked to the least region set with DVD drives correspondingly locked after five changes of region code by the user.

Blu-ray takes another tentative step towards the mass market, but is now the time to buy?

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

Solid state and hybrid drives to power 60 per cent of all notebooks.

Blu-ray takes another tentative step towards the mass market, but is now the time to buy?