'Competitive battleground' taking shape as data proliferates.

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

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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.

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.

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.

The easyStore is basic, but it’s good value and its iSCSI capabilities give it an edge over the competition

Offering 40GB of storage, the Iomega drive is very small for its capacity, measuring a mere 8.89 x 7.37 x 1.27cm. It weighs just over 99 grams, which means it's unnoticeable in your pocket. The internal drive is a 40GB Hitachi TravelStar C4K40 -- a new form-factor hard drive, measuring a mere 1.8 inches across (a normal notebook hard drive is 2.5in, a desktop drive 3.5) -- and only about 7mm thick.

Extra capacity for businesses and Google Apps users.

It was touted as the next big thing from Microsoft. But is Microsoft’s storage strategy in tatters?

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.

Adaptec could offer a higher storage capacity for the price, but the 650 certainly delivers on performance and features.

Easy to use, and with space for a second SATA disk, but it struggles with small files and is overpriced for the features.