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Can this architectural hard drive be as beautiful to use as it is to look at?

A battery powered Wi-Fi hard drive that aims to give you 1TB of storage for your tablet.

Five hard disks in a 20TB volume working at wildly high speeds thanks to Thunderbolt.

Ever been out firefighting and left your USB stick in your pocket, burning your files to a crisp? You need the XtremKey!

With four portable drives, this Thunderbolt RAID array is a useful companion for video editing.

Despite attaching a budget price tag to the drive, the performance of the Ultra Plus means it can take on the big boys.

We reviewed the original KingSpec MultiCore 1TB drive not so long ago and, although it offered great performance, we wondered how fast a drive would be with a more up-to-date controller and some better NAND.

Toshiba isn't known for solid-state drives, and this SSD seems unlikely to change that.

UPDATED Controller chipsets are difficult to get right, but OCZ pulls it off.

While on the outside it looks slim, this portable hard drive holds a hefty 500GB capacity.

What makes a hard drive fast? USB 3.0? Thunderbolt? Solid state technology? Or a go faster stripe, like the one here?

This small hard drive connects to your TV, with a compact design to make it as unobtrusive as possible.

Just as Intel has done with the 335 series, Kingston has come up with a new range of drives matching the old LSI SandForce SF-2281 controllers with the latest ideas in NAND technology.

The Buffalo MiniStation Thunderbolt is a sturdy, portable and attractive hard drive that uses Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 speeds.

PNY is a name normally associated with Nvidia-based consumer graphics cards, and maybe the odd memory modules. In fact it makes a whole range of memory-based hardware too.

Like its little 330 series sibling and its bigger brother, the 520 series, it's based around the LSI SandForce SF-2281 controller, but unlike the other two this one uses Intel's latest 20nm MLC NAND.

The question Samsung's asking is just how much are you willing to pay for the ultimate in SSD oomph.

The Korean giant is currently cranking out world-beating kit in several segments, from smartphones to ARM chips and HDTVs. So how do their latest and greatest SSDs stack up?

With the My Book VelociRaptor Duo, Western Digital has taken two of the fastest drives it makes, with a SATA 6Gb/s interface.

UPDATED Affordable synchronous NAND with great performance. The real-world difference between this and the Neutron GTX is marginal.

The name KingSpec may be new to you, and indeed us, but the company has been in the flash storage business since 1995.

With the current crop of solid-state drives already knocking very hard on the door of SATA 6Gbps bandwidth limit, we might have to start looking elsewhere for speedy SSDs.

The Transcend SSD18C3 contains a solid state drive, rather than the older mechanical drives, for faster data read and write speeds.

Where the Transcend StoreJet 25M3 had a durable case, the Transcend StoreJet 35T3 USB 3.0 External Hard Drive has quick and secure data backup.

The Integral Crypto SSD won't just give your PC a big speed boost, it also offers advanced protection for your data.