buried in the various announcements during macworld and ces this past week was a juicy tidbit that came from lacie. they released a 1 terabyte firewire 800/400/usb 2.0 hard drive for $1200. yep, that’s 1000 gb (or 1024 gb if your a purist) of file storage. that works out to be about $1.20 per GB of storage. no, it’s not as cheap as buying a ton of 200 gb drives but if you add in the cost of enclosures for those drives this is an amazing price for that amount of storage.


i recently purchased one of lacie’s 200 gb external drives and i’ve pretty much filled it up already. i was looking at buying another one of their d2 firewire/usb 2.0 drives but this one looks amazing and may make me rethink that purchase. no, i don’t have $1200 sitting around but i can start saving the pennies for when i buy the home server i want, hopefully later this year. this would be a nice addition to that system for complete home archival solution. i record a lot of replay shows and i’d love the option of being able to archive them without caring about file size of how much space i had left on my other drives.


i’ll definitely be watching this product and the various reviews. one can only think that this is going to lead to a few hard drive price wars on the horizon.