CompetitionThe My Book Live Duo is one of the best PC or Mac backup drives around – and you could win one of the £300 dual-drive devices thanks to Western Digital.

TutorialIf you have a bunch of HDDs sitting in a cuboard gathering dust, put them to good use with FreeNAS, an old motherboard and some guidance from us.

IBM Research has successfully demonstrated that you can store information in as few as 12 magnetic atoms – a discovery which could pave the way to smaller, faster and more energy efficient hard drives in our favourite devices.

CES 2012LaCie has announced the 2big Thunderbolt Series and the eSATA Hub Thunderbolt series at CES 2012.

Seagate has finalised its purchase of Samsung's hard disk drive business –gaining 'select elements' including assets, infrastructure and employees.

The price and availability of hard-disk drives has shot up by as much as 150 per cent since the floods in Thailand caused many manufacturing plants to close.

TutorialWhen a hard drive goes bad, the first thing you'll probably do is have a good old curse at the platter gods for picking on you. You then might decide to have a bit of a panic when you realise that you didn't back up your files.

Secure Digital memory cards could soon hold your personal data and a host of smart applications, after the SD Association revealed plans to make them more functional

TutorialToo much clutter on your hard drive? Warnings about a lack of disk space? Claw back all the free space you need

TutorialTired of waiting around for Windows and your games to load? Technology is once again to the rescue with ways to boost flagging drive speed

Storage manufacturer Buffalo has brought out its ultra-tough MiniStation Extreme portable hard drive.

Solid state drive manufacturer OCZ has fixed a blue screen of death and disconnect issue with its Sandforce SF-2000 series drives, such as the Agility 3.

Scientists at Singapore's Agency for Science Technology and Research have upped the storage densities of hard drives - with humble table salt.

Buffalo Technology's latest hard drive claims ultra high speed data transfer, boasting the ability to transfer 1,000 digital photos in under than 7 seconds.

Dell's CEO, Michael Dell, has made a subtle swipe at HP's deliberation over leaving the PC market.

Intel reckons it's next consumer SSD, code-named Cherryville, will be the fastest SSD on the market when it launches this Autumn.

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Japanese technology company Hitachi has followed in the footsteps of rival Seagate with the announcement that it's squeezed an entire terabyte of storage onto a single 3.5-inch hard drive platter.

Memory maestro Corsair has announced that its bigger capacity Force Series GT solid state drives (SSDs) are now available.

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IBM are putting together the largest data drive on the planet, with some 200,000 hard drives working together to reach a whopping 120 petabyte total.

Semiconductor company Micron unveiled its prototype ultra-fast Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) DRAM during the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University.

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Microsoft has announced that its upcoming operating system, Windows 8, will feature native USB 3.0 support, something that has required separate drivers until this point.