Perhaps the fastest moving technology when it comes to computers is capacity. Computer memory, hard drive space and most recently portable storage such as flash drives are constantly being refined and improved, and considering the increasing ...

Kingston's new 1GB flash drive is one of the first in an expected onslaught of such devices that proclaim themselves 'ReadyBoost Ready'. It's unsurprising, as ReadyBoost is a great-on-paper feature within Windows Vista that allows you ...

Sweex's latest gadget cleverly plugs into a couple of expanding trends in the PC marketplace. First there's the growth in hard disk recorders, spearheaded by Sky+ boxes, but with plenty of others hanging onto their coat ...

When it came to backup, tape used to be the only really affordable technology. Until, that is, disk prices started to plummet with - as well as fixed drive solutions - a number of removable disk ...

With today's plethora of downloadable media, whether it be music or films, the need for large capacity drives is growing and will only get greater. Its OK having a large capacity drive in your system but ...

PNY has built its considerable reputation on flash memory and drives, as well as high-end memory upgrades and, more recently, NVIDIA Quadro graphics boards. So when a new USB 2.0 drive appears it pays to take ...

It's not too long since we last met the Iomega Rev drive, and we were impressed enough to give the 35GB version our backing, albeit with caveats over pricing, earlier this year. The Rev is a ...

Memory cards and flash drives go up to around 2GB in capacity, 2.5-inch hard drives kick in at around 30GB, but there's a gap in the middle around the 5GB mark which is not well served, ...

There are cheaper ways to back up your data than with Iomega's Rev drive. Selling for just north of £200, and with a 35GB cartridge disk coming in at around the price of a 40GB hard ...

USB flash drives are great, aren't they? You pop your files onto one, drop it into your pocket, and then get to the files from any computer with a USB port. Unless, of course, you happen ...

Do you remember the good old, bad old days, when a floppy disk was seen as the ideal solution to the problem of transporting data manually from computer to computer? Since then we've seen the rise ...

There are three effective ways of carrying data around with you: for small amounts, say up to a couple of gigabytes, you can use flash drives, and for up to five gigabytes there are rewritable DVDs, ...

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 ...