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

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

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.

Canon are only the second manufacturer in the Australian market to provide a flash based video camera (Panasonic is the other). Daniel Long gives his first impressions.

And the people virtually rejoiced

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

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

The LaCie Little Big Disk Quadra is less than the size of a Harry Potter book, yet crams in two 500GB 2.5in hard disks.

A useful little NAS box with plenty of features and a compelling price.

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.