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Verbatim announced their new 500GB and 1 TB hard disk drive aimed at those of us with large libraries of photos and music.  The new units feature 4 different interface options: “USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and eSATA II (external Serial ATA II)” for Mac and PC.  This means whichever port you happen to have vacant, it will probably work with these drives.

Protected by an aluminum housing, the drives are small and easily transported from desk to desk and their large size can eliminate multiple smaller HDDs.  The drives also include Nero for automatic Windows machine backups.

Honestly though, is just an HDD enough?  Many storage experts cite the need to have back ups of your data and while you can back up your machine to a drive like this, the data must stay on your local machine to be the back up.  For those looking to move data off their machines might be best served by a RAID solution, such as Verbatim’s 2TB USB/eSATA 2-Disk RAID Desktop Hard Drive for about $80 more.

Product page: [Verbatim]