Western Digital seems to be sticking to its guns with traditional spinning platter hard drives whilst all around them are falling to the guile of those new fangled Solid State Drives and their wicked no-moving-parts voodoo.

'Competitive battleground' taking shape as data proliferates.

New technology claims to cuts storage array power and cooling costs in half.

We gaze into a crystal ball and and ponder the future, or possible demise, of some well-known technologies.

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

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.

USB 2.0 hard disks are a convenient way of backing up your data, but if you want to share the files with other computers over a small office or home network they're not ideal. But Linksys has an alternative. The Network Storage Link (NSL) takes a USB 2.0 hard disk or flash drive and puts it on the network.

As we bring our Information Overload summit to a close, we have decided to name and rank the biggest culprits for the overload, the issues which more than anything else are causing companies to drown in a deluge of data..

Superb performance, quiet running and excellent value for home use, especially if you want to stream media.

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.

An old PC is like putty in your hands. Tim Dean looks at how you can shape it into a new system with a few easy upgrades.

Plenty of storage, but average performance and limited features

Devices that attach storage to the network aren't new, but until now they've been either very expensive or limited in ability. But this little marvel from Asus changes all that. The WL-HDD can put a hard disk on the network with no drivers or client software required, and it can do this wirelessly via 802.11g.

Leigh Dyer looks at Sun’s attempts to keep Solaris relevant in a Linux world.

IoDrive functions as a local storage device.

IBM launched first magnetic hard disk on 13 September 1956.

Sun's latest quarterly products announcement emphasises servers, workstations and storage in a growing push towards utility computing and lower cost networking, company executives said.

Find out how Microsoft’s impressive new OS will share and back up all the data on your home PCs, among other tricks.