External hard disks are a great way to add storage. We test 13, from sub-$130 portable drives to mighty terabyte desktop units.

Many people upgrade their PCs by adding the latest CPU or more memory, but leave their old hard disk in place. The humble hard disk is one of the slowest components inside a PC (in fact, only optical

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

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.

Is your PC’s hard disk getting cramped? Invest in an external hard disk and never again worry about running out of room.

Stuck for storage space? Upgrade to one of the latest disks and you’ll benefit from better performance too

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.

Play your video, photo and music files on your TV from a networked PC. We put five network players to the test

Turn on and tune in with cards that give your PC a whole new lease of AV life.

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

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

Finding a good PC or notebook for the family is not as hard as you might think. PC Authority  puts the latest models to the test.

The two main concerns an end user has with their hard disk, capacity and reliability, continue to improve with advances in technology. Every six months or so, there is an increase in the areal density

With no sign of the end of the format war coming to pass anytime soon, prices continue to fall and we’ve got the latest models to take a look at.

Despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that emanates from the bowels of music industry boardrooms, technologies and devices that enhance the portability of music continue to grow in popularity. The concern is not over the proliferations of the gadgets themselves, it's about the files that are loaded onto them, which have flooded peer-to-peer networks, cardboard boxes under flea market counters and the hard drives of computer users across the world.

Pocket-sized digital camcorders are becoming more capable all the time. We round up ten of the best

We know you want to play games, so we've put 18 PCI Express graphics cards under the microscope to see who really does the job the best.

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.

There are three main types of MP3 players, which differ mostly in terms of their method of data storage. Each has its own pros and cons.

Internet everywhere, for affordable prices. Dave Stevenson investigates the claims, tests the speeds and delivers a verdict on the best plan for your mobile dollars.