Hitachi has released a new family of SATA hard drives, and right at the top of the tree we have the 7K500 which uses five platters and ten read/write heads to achieve an enormous capacity of ...

Maxtor's OneTouch II is designed to take the headache out of backing up your computers and it does so very well. The device itself is solid and pleasing to look at. Its metal casing means that ...

The new range of Seagate 7200.9 hard drives is available in a range of capacities that start at 80GB and work up through 120GB, 160GB, 200GB, 250GB, 300GB and 400GB to the top of the heap ...

USB key drives are everywhere these days, and there's a number of ways in which manufacturers try to make theirs special. Swissbit has come up with what has to be one of the best ideas ever; ...

Samsung has released four new hard drives in its SpinPoint P120 series. We'll ignore two of them as they're Parallel ATA models which use the old ribbon cable, but the other two use the new SATA-II ...

The Fujitsu HandyDrive is an external, pocket-sized hard drive designed to easily expand the storage capacity of your computer, or to backup files or transfer large quantities of data between computers. It is powered from the ...

At first glance this little unit looks just like any other USB flash drive. It's small and light, pulls apart into two sections to reveal the USB connector, and is available in a range of storage ...

Serial ATA, or SATA, is fast becoming the standard for high-speed hard drive interfaces in PCs. It's faster and uses simpler cabling than its older, parallel ATA counterpart. However, until now, virtually all SATA drives have ...

You can add extra fixed storage to a PC in one of two ways. You can open it up, slide in an internal hard drive, secure it with four screws, connect up a data cable and ...

One of the only drawbacks to digital photography, compared with conventional film photography, is storage. It's easy enough to carry a couple of spare films around with you, but if you have to carry a couple ...

Could the days of the flash drive already be numbered? That's one conclusion you could draw from Sony's new Micro Vault Pro. Slightly smaller than a cigarette packet, the device is a 2GB portable storage solution ...

There's nothing that new about the principles of network attached storage (NAS). However, Ximeta is one of several companies offering a new pack of NAS products that are specifically targeting small and home networks, and with ...

The demise of the floppy drive has been predicted for about ten years now, and PCs without floppies are finally becoming more common. The replacement is the memory drive (flash disk, pen drive, call it what ...

External hard drives have been around for ages, but in today's climate of virus attacks and other data-corrupting evils, they are an important weapon to have in your armoury to protect your data. And with the ...

Not so long ago, a drive of this capacity - 250GB - would have been deemed an enterprise drive, used only in servers, network storage devices and similar systems. Not so now, with the advent of ...

In the heavy computer users' world, there's rarely a time when storage of some form isn't at a premium. Likewise, when it comes to undertaking effective backups, even a 4.7GB capacity DVD drive can struggle to ...

Jadetec specialises in miniature PCs and gadgets for them, like this memory drive. Memory drives have proved increasingly popular for storing medium-sized files and transferring them from machine to machine. This new ClipDrive is one such ...

When introduced at the end of 2002, Serial ATA (SATA) disks helped simplify cabling but did little for performance. But now there's the Raptor from Western Digital, the first 10,000rpm SATA drive capable of taking full ...

If you're looking for fast external storage, to supplement existing internal drives, to provide quick and reliable backup or to transfer large amounts of data from one PC to another, you should look at a plug-in, ...

It may come as a surprise to some, but Samsung has been in the hard drive business for many years. Not for it the flashy, fast drives; instead the company concentrates on what are probably the ...