Up against some very tough competition, Seagate's Barracuda 7200.7 managed to take out the coveted Labs winner award this month with its fantastic attributes.

The Seagate ST3160021A sits second last on the performance rankings, and in the specific Sysmark and Drivespeed scores. Though it might not appear valid to compare this 7200rpm 160GB drive to the 5400rpm Maxtor 300GB hulk, you can – they both only have 2MB caches.

The Barracuda ST3160023AS is a fair performer in our labs, ranking fourth and above average when it came to handling the binary.

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If your PC is lacking storage space then give it some extra room with these four internal hard disks.

Narrowly edged out of the winning position by the extremely capable Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 drive, this drive has plenty to crow about.

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.

At almost double the capacity of the other products in our roundup, this 400GB disk is big and fast, but unfortunately comes with an equally sized price tag.

A $300 price tag makes this the most expensive of the 160GB drives we tested, but its cost per gigabyte is still well under $2.

The Samsung SP1614N is our labs winner – and is a winner by a big margin. It scored strongly both SysMark2002 and Drivespeed to yield the pole position in performance, and following our current-labs-trend, it outperformed its SATA counterpart (only just). Its strong performance means that it is the drive able to come closest to the manufacturer’s specifications.

Also known as the 'EB' series, the Protg disks are Western Digital's budget 5,400rpm option.

Here at PC Authority we see a lot of computer systems. Not surprising really, it’s what we do. But it’s not often we see a system this carefully assembled. Every precaution has been taken to ensure the system has clear airflow to help regulate the temperature and keep it cool.

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.

PC Authority takes a trip down computer memory lane and discovers just how PC technology has evolved... and how Microsoft and IBM nearly destroyed each other.

Over 300 members of the IT&T community attended a gala dinner at Sydney’s Town Hall on 4 December for AJB Publishing’s annual IT&T Awards.

Possibly the most interesting feature of the Xbox is its similarity to a PC in terms of its hardware specification. Unlike other games consoles, like the Sony PlayStation2 and Nintendo GameCube, which