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.

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

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..

Plenty of storage, but average performance and limited features

Solid state storage vendors have been breaking records with a new generation of solid state drives (SSDs)..

General Electric (GE) has unveiled a new storage method which is said to allow for 500GB of storage space on a single compact disc..

Once upon a time, most people's treasured memories were stored in a couple of cardboard boxes. Now ioSafe's storage box promises to protect them at furnace temperatures up to 1500 degrees Fahrenheit.

Leigh Dyer looks at how to get failover redundancy on a shoestring budget

A tad pricey but a well-built desktop DAS appliance with plenty of fault-tolerant storage and top performance

This aluminium storage box is a prime candidate for a living-room media network, especially if you need 1TB of storage space.

Apple Time Capsule owners can now access their files from afar thanks to a tie-in with Apple's Mobileme service.

Storage firm Seagate has unveiled what it claims is the fastest desktop hard disk drive.

The Maxtor Blackarmor has one thing that other USB hard drives don’t - military grade data security in a very stylish package

D-Link offers a well-built desktop NAS appliance that looks good value, but for business users it’s short of features

A huge capacity, classy specification, plenty of business-related storage features and lightning performance

Powerful and decent value, but ease of use could be better.

A veritable Swiss Army Knife of a NAS drive, the QNAP TS-119 Turbo NAS has every feature under the sun

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

Iomega’s latest shows promise, but it’s outclassed by others