Where is the cheapest Terrabyte hard drive?
HAPPINESS is sort-of cheaper hard drive storage. I say “sort of” because before you add it, you should figure out if you want to RAID it or back it up onto another cheap hard drive and/or take selective segments and burn them out to dual-layer DVDs on a regular basis. At around $450 street price, the Western Digital My Book World Edition II (WDMBTEII? Ugh! Marketeers, shorter product names!) 1TB Remote Access Storage System puts a pair of 500 GB drives into an enclosure along with a GigE interface. Just plug it into your GigE router and go to town, basically. If you’re among the conservative or paranoid, you can configure it as a RAID 1 drive. If that doesn’t have enough bytes to make you happy, you can pre-order a 1.5 TB version directly from Western Digital at the list price of $700. You may want to consider waiting until the holiday season and the subsequent heavy-duty discounts/incentive programs. Don’t want or desire network storage? The options for simple external drives get to b
