Huge capacity combined with a fast spin speed and backed by a super fast interface and cache makes this a very impressive single drive, not only that but its impressively quiet while it does it.

A 2TB hard drive running at 7,200 RPM. What's the catch?

We find it hard not to gawp, slack jawed, at this miraculous Hitachi drive. For anyone who remembers the heady days when 20MB hard drives were the norm, it's sometimes hard to comprehend how 1,000,000MB can now be squeezed into the same space

File sizes are on the rise; so are game installations, digital music and movie collections, and let's not forget Vista takes up 15GB of space. Hard drives are cheaper than ever before, though.

Hitachi has built a strong name for itself for manufacturing quality hard drives that offer leading performance while being reliable at the same time