The Augustus Gloop of storage: Terastation

This storage system really can wolf it down. The Buffalo Terastation's four 250GB hard disks combine to give a magnificent terabyte (1TB) of networked capacity. These drives can be set up as a massive single volume, or as a RAID array. In a RAID system data is mirrored across the four drives in case fire or rioting damages one or more of the drives. It's perfect for securely storing digital photos, home videos or backing up your collection of self-directed and produced art-house cinema (don't, obviously, use it for storing Hollywood movies, or the police will eat you).

An oversized fan on the rear makes sure that you can't hear much noise coming from this chunky knowledge-box, and built-in Gigabit Ethernet will serve data at speeds that make the Indy 500 look like a Roman chariot race. The unit itself is about the same size as a football, but square instead of round.

As our demands for storage capacity grow ever more furious, there's only one rational way to deal with the snowdrift of digital photographs, videos and assorted email attachments that daily existence pounds you with. The answer is fat storage solutions, big blubbery masses of gigabyte flesh pleats to hold your digital lifestyle. -CS