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

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

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

The advantages of an LCD display over a conventional CRT are well known - dramatic savings in terms of space, reduced energy consumption, less radiation and heat generation, easier alignment of geomet

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.

All the power of a desktop PC in a fraction of the space. We put a selection of desktop replacements to the test.

All the power of a desktop PC in a fraction of the space. We put a selection of desktop replacements to the test.

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

The DVD standards battle on, and prices continue to drop, so is it worth buying a DVD burner now? We put an assortment of DVD-R/RW and DVD+R/RW drives to the test to answer that very question.

It is exactly one year since the PC Authority Labs team last took an in-depth look at the world of digital cameras in Digital Darkroom, May 2001. This month, it was time again for the Labs team to cas

We test nine devices, from the simplest printers to versatile multifunction devices that print, scan, copy and fax

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.

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.

CD-RW drives have been a mainstream PC peripheral for a considerable time now, and in most cases, can be found as a standard component in a typical entry level PC rig. We are also well past those frus

Sixteen notebooks under $2500, we've separated the winners with the goods from the less impressive performers.

Evaluating barebones systems is quite different from performance-based testing using benchmarks. As such, we opted to do a feature-based roundup, covering all aspects of the hardware, including but not limited to: build quality, ease of install, and included feature sets.

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

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

We put every current model from ATI and NVIDIA through its paces to find out which offers the best performance and value.