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Internal hard drives

Most Popular Internal hard drives

Best internal hard drives: The best high-capacity HDDs to buy from £83
If you’re looking to supersize your storage, then upgrade your PC or NAS drive with our pick of the best high-capacity HDDs
Toshiba MQ01ABD100
Toshiba MQ01ABD100 review
£103
Good value per gigabyte, but there are faster 1TB drives at this price
Seagate Desktop SSHD review
£135
A great-value hybrid drive, but its speeds weren’t as impressive as we’d hoped

Latest Internal hard drives

Plextor M3 Pro 128GB
Plextor M3 Pro 128GB review
Internal hard drives

A superb turn of speed and reasonable price make this the best SSD we’ve seen yet

Published :
£141 inc VAT
Crucial Adrenaline
Crucial Adrenaline review
Internal hard drives

Reasonably fast and easy to set up, it’s a relatively cheap route to an SSD-style performance boost

Published :
£72 inc VAT
Toshiba MQ01ABD100
Toshiba MQ01ABD100 review
Internal hard drives

Good value per gigabyte, but there are faster 1TB drives at this price

Published :
£103 inc VAT
Sandisk Extreme 120GB
Sandisk Extreme 120GB review
Internal hard drives

A good value and fairly quick SSD, but Patriot's Pyro SE just has the edge

Published :
£145 inc VAT
Toshiba MMK7559GSXP 750GB
Toshiba MMK7559GSXP 750GB review
Internal hard drives

If you can live with the disappointing performance, this 750GB disk is relatively cheap

Published :
£60 inc VAT
Corsair Force Series F120 SSD
Corsair Force Series F120 SSD review
Internal hard drives

Great performance at a reasonable price, the Force F120 is only just bettered by the cheaper OCZ Vertex 2E

Published :
£175 inc VAT
Mushkin Callisto Deluxe 60GB
Mushkin Callisto Deluxe 60GB review
Internal hard drives

It might have a Sandforce-based memory controller, but the Callisto Deluxe wasn't particularly quick

Published :
£90 inc VAT
Hitachi Z5K320
Hitachi Z5K320 review
Internal hard drives

Thin enough even for netbooks and ultra-portables, but performance leaves a lot to be desired

Published :
£35 inc VAT
Hitachi 5k3000 3TB
Hitachi 5k3000 3TB review
Internal hard drives

Great performance for a 5,400RPM disk, but the faster 7k3000 costs £44 less, and is the obvious choice.

Published :
£164 inc VAT
Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB
Seagate Barracuda XT 3TB review
Internal hard drives

One of the best workarounds we’ve seen in a 3TB disk, but the price leaves a lot to be desired.

Published :
£200 inc VAT