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Iomega’s eGo external drive line has now hit 1 Terabyte of storage.  Entitled the “Super” eGo drive, the portable storage device contains one single 1 terabyte drive.  The drive’s physical size is also increased, as it is a 3.5 inch drive, as opposed to the normal 2.5 inch size portable hard drives have.  As a reference point, this thing can hold 1.5 thousand hours of video.  It comes in three colors: ruby red, midnight blue, or jet black.  However, the Super eGo only interfaces through USB 2.0, and with a drive of that size I would’ve liked to see a FireWire interface. You can pick one up now for $270.

Via [Gizmodo]

Samsung has announced their new EcoGreen F1 hard drive touting a full one terabyte of storage capacity and environment friendly features. This eco-friendly hard drive can be used as either an external or internal hard drive for desktop PCs and thanks to the large capacity it would be well utilized for surveillance applications as well as for audio and video recording.

The EcoGreen F1 hard drive sets itself apart from other low-powered one terabyte hard drives by its 15% power savings when in use, and 50% power reduction as compared to the power utilized by other traditional hard drives. Additionally, the F1 hard drive utilizes a lower number of moving parts to make it run, thereby also boosting it’s speed when in use. It comes equipped with SilentSeek and NoiseGuard, both of which help achieve a quieter operation. It also has a reinforced flying on demand (FOD) technology that controls the distance between the disk and the head which ensures data stability.

As for its technical specifications, the Samsung F1 EcoGreen hard drive runs at 5,400rpm, has a 3.0Gbps SATA interface, native command queing features and a 32MB buffer memory. The EcoGreen F1 will be available on the second quarter of 2008 for $199.

Read [Business Wire]

Standing by their tag line, Fujitsu will truly “make your data portable” with its new Handy Drive 400, offering 400GB of space for any kind of digital contraption you can throw at it. The drive measures a convenient 3.23 x 5.57 x 0.87-inches and weighs 8.12-ounces. This 4200rpm hard drive will connect to your PC just fine over USB 2.0, although there’s no word whether this will support Firewire. Available now in Japan for 216€ or just a little over $330 USD. Yes, it’s pricey.

Via [Akihabara News]

Verbatim has undoubtedly come a long way from all those floppy disks of yesteryear. The latest addition to their portable storage line up is the world’s first 2.5-inch half-terabyte Portable HDD featuring an industry standard 9.5mm Z-height drive. Costing only $300, it’s as straightforward as portable HDD’s can get, and is compatible with all the latest Windows and Mac systems. It features a spindle speed of 5400rpm, includes 8MB of cache memory, and weighs less than 6 ounces at only 3.38×5.38×0.63 inches. So if you’re looking to allocate 500 more GB’s of space for your data, I’m sure you’ll be glad to know that it’s slated for a Q2 2008 release. How you fill this baby up is entirely up to you.

Read [Business Wire]

This new terabyte hard disk from LaCie will connect to your PC or Mac using USB 2.0, sorry no Firewire, and works as a “1-click” backup solution for all you back-up obsessed computer users out there. From the outside, you can see that it has a very minimalist design, and the only prominent parts are the USB port and the power button. I think it’s the sexiest thing to happen to external drives since their Porsche lineup or the WD Passports. There are other variants of this model hard disk as well, offering lower storage capacities, and the complete list can be found on LaCie’s web site. Currently there is not any expected ship date or pricing information.

Product [LaCie] Via [Gizmodo]

Asus is getting into the large storage game with their latest laptop, offering 1-terabyte of storage on the new M70S. The laptop is set to be released during CES 2008 and features two-500GB hard drives that can be set up in RAID 0 or RAID 1 configurations.

In addition to the large storage the M70S also features a 17-inch display, Intel Core2 Duo processor, 1GB of RAM, ATI 3650 graphics card, built-in webcam, fingerprint scanner and a digital/analog TV tuner.

Via [Yahoo! News]

Didn’t believe us that Hitachi actually released a 1 Terabyte, 1,000 GB hard drive for your computer (actually 1024 GB but we round)? We’ll here’s your proof. Enjoy calculating how many songs, pictures, videos, documents, and p0rn—we know you were thinking it.

With the era of high definition upon us, storage media has become a more important part of our lives. All those high definition movies, music, and photos suddenly take up so much of our hard-drives that you might need Gigabytes and Gigabytes of storage just for keeping a couple of hi-def movies on hand.

Enter Hitachi, who at CES2007 showcases the world’s first TeraByte consumer hard-drive. The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 will be in a 3.5” standard desktop form factor, running at 7200 rpm with a 32 MB buffer, available in Serial ATA/Parallel ATA interfaces and will be priced at about 40c/Mb at USD $399. It will be released sometime in the first quarter of 2007. In addition, it’ll also be available in a 750 GB version.

Also being announced at the same time is the Hitachi Cinemastar, which will be specifically optimized for DVR (Digital Video Recording) purposes. There’s little detail about the Cinemastar, except that it will be available in the second quarter of 2007.

Read [CES 2007 Business Wire Press Release] Via [Sci Fi Tech]

Seagate has begun shipping their 750 GB hard drive that we first reported last week, bringing them about one step away from a commercially available Terabyte drive. The drive is within their Barracuda 7200.10 line of hard drives. The drive has the ability to store this much information by storing data in vertical columns, which allow more information to be stored in a given space on the hard-drive platter.

To put it in perspective a 750GB drive could hold the same amount of data as 750 pickup trucks loaded with books, or the amount of data contained in books produced from 37,500 trees, according to the How Much Information study from the University of California, Berkeley.

The 750GB drive costs $590. Other Barracuda 7200.10 drives range in density from 500GB to 200GB. The entry-level model sells for $108.

Read [News.com]

Everyone has been saying that the name of the game is becoming storage (and my upcoming What The Future Holds column will focus on this trend). So are you in need of extra space to store all of those illegal movies, music, files, and more?

Information week has a rather good, but lengthy, article about how to go about and build your own personal storage. Now we’re not talking a few gigs or even a few hundred gigs, they drop the details on how to build your own 1 terabyte server for under $500. This is certainty more reliable cheaper than going and getting a Yellow Machine.

Let us know if you have any luck.

Read [Information Week]