Sony used a presentation at the US Game Developers Conference last night to reiterate many of the PS4 features it demonstrated at last month's big announcement event, and although nothing hugely new was shown off, it did confirm we'll see a hard drive in every unit -- and it'll be big. Read More >>

Did you know that today is National Hard Drive Day? Well it is, because we just decided that it is, so shut up. Appropriately, here's some top-notch hard drive and SSD bargains that we've found to help celebrate the big day. Read More >>

Apple's fancy new Fusion Drive promises to couple an SSD with a traditional hard drive for large-scale storage with lightning fast boot up and program launches. But a developer found Mountain Lion already packs support for Fusion Drive, meaning that with an SSD, a hard drive, and a bit of Terminal magic, you can create your own homebrew Fusion Drive right now for your old Mac. Read More >>

While the future of storage on your laptop is undoubtedly solid state, it's more difficult to predict how the huge tranches of data in server farms will be housed in the future. Recent suggestions, though, predict the rebirth of an old technology: the humble cassette tape. Read More >>

Data, like all things, eventually dies. Your music, your movies, your documents, your files, your computer. You don't expect it to live forever but... what if it did? Hitachi claims that they've developed a new quartz glass plate that can store data forever. Read More >>

Western Digital is planning to launch a range of helium-filled hard drives. Not to make them lighter or higher-pitched, though: with a density one-seventh that of air, the gas reduces internal drag, in turn boosting performance. Read More >>

We've been amazed at the 1TB hard drive and we've marvelled at the 2TB hard drive. Now, prepare for your eyes to pop out on stalks, so far that you can see them with each other. Maybe even give them a quick polish while they’re there. Read More >>

All is not well with Apple's much loved, but aging Mac Pro line. Apparently a "small number" of the beastly, pricy towers were sold in the UK with dodgy data-erasing hard drives that'd totally ruin your day, forcing Cupertino to issue an embarrassing recall. Read More >>

Are you an amateur photographer? Would you like people to think that you’re a professional photographer instead? Swear to us that you’re not going to lure innocent young wannabes into your orbit with promises of a glittering career in ‘modelling’? Good. Read More >>

Do you see yourself as a go-getting, thrusting, hard-nosed business type? A proto-Sugar in the making, with a head full of big ideas and a sack full of business balls? Yeah? You’ll need a better chair then. Read More >>

All of us have got more and more data these days and if there’s one thing about data it’s that you need somewhere to keep it all. Luckily, there’s ‘cloud-based’ storage from Dropbox and (as of next week probably) Google, but the trusty hard drive isn’t dead just yet. Read More >>

Seagate's latest hard drive has hit a milestone: it manages to squeeze in a data density of one terabit per square inch. It uses some extremely complex heat-assisted magnetic recording to do that, and in the process doubles the storage capacity of current hard disks. If that's not enough to get your head round, how about this: the hard disk contains more bits in a single square inch than the Milky Way has stars. [Seagate; Image credit: sar_38/Shutterstock] Read More >>

The reason people are so pumped about solid-state hard drives right now is because they're super-speedy. But if you think your SSD is fast, just wait until a new breed of laser-based hard drives comes to market. Read More >>

Copyright is meant to protect intellectual property, but the very nature of what can be copyrighted is being called into question. Is porn actually copyrightable or are the smut barons who are going after file sharers barking up the wrong tree? Read More >>

Good news for anyone looking to buying a hard drive or computer in the next year or so -- Western Digital has partially restored production at one of its manufacturing plants in Thailand, and expects to have all the water pumped out of a second within 10 days. Read More >>