Dirt Cheap Terabyte Storage

A Terabyte (TB)is one thousand Gigabytes (GB).  That is a lot of data storage space for documents, photos, audio, and video.  This week several retailers have 1 TB external USB hard drives on sale for ridiculously low prices. 

Office Depot has the Maxtor 1 TB OT$ Plus external drive on sale for $249.99.  It comes with backup software, one-touch backup functionality, and both USB 2.0 and FireWire connections.

Circuit City has the Western Digital 1 TB My Book World Edition network attached storage (NAS) drive on sale for $269.99.  This drive has a Gigabit Ethernet connection to plug directly into your network.  It is not dependent on a host PC.  Software allows you to connect to and access files on this drive via the Internet when you are away from your home or office.  Circuit also has the above-mentioned Maxtor USB/FireWire drive on sale for $259.99. 

Over at Best Buy, the Western Digital 1 TB My Book Essentials external USB drive is on sale for $229.99.