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

Western Digital has announced its range of 250GB SATA laptop hard drives, and we have the first unit in the country under the microscope.

The contribution of ICT workers has been under-estimated.

One of the cheapest 500GB drives here, but this is reflected in the lack of features and slow transfer speeds.

Brief reviews of new products, plus updates on items we've already featured.

If your PC is lacking storage space then give it some extra room with these four internal hard disks.

We’ve examined the data from more than 8000 readers to reveal exactly what sort of reliability, customer service and satisfaction you can expect in 2007.

A solid, assured drive with plenty of interfaces and enough style to justify the price.

This is the ultimate in storage for massive movie or music collections, capable of holding 170 movies. You'll never need to click "delete" again.

Market booming thanks to games consoles and TVs.

So you want to make yourself a new gaming rig, one that’s capable of playing Crysis at more than two frames per second, but won’t blow the budget?

We're not recommending you watch movies continuously for more than a month, but you could do it.

Monster storage; plus a choice of professional SAS or consumer SATA interfaces and reliability to boot.

Not great value for money, but the XPS 700 offers plenty of power and striking looks.

Plus, how we work out the ratings.

TV revenues reach record high of $100bn in 2007.

Online hacks the fastest growing segment of imprisoned press.