Apricorn has introduced the latest addition to its range of portable storage, Aegis Mini – 240GB model. Although it has regular look, remember that it has a 1.8-inch hard drive, and weighs just 105g. You can plug it into the computer via USB 2.0 or FireWire and despite its small size, the 240GB Aegis Mini is resistant to shocks and the FireWire cable or USB 2.0 is integrated. It works well with Mac OS X and Windows. The USB 2.0 model will cost $270, while the FireWire version costs $10 more. You can get a discount of $25, but only this month.

MCE Technologies offers OptiBay hard drives for the owners of the new unibody MacBook and MacBook Pro, with prices that start at $190 depending on capacity. Some people think they no longer need optical drives and prefer to replace that empty space with another hard drive, which far from being a bad idea. The second hard drive is installed internally and offers to users the option for RAID performance, for example. You can choose between the following storage capacities: 250GB/5400rpm, 320GB/5400rpm, 320GB/7200rpm and 500GB/5400rpm.

Seen on Akiba Watch, the special offer of the day in Akihabara for storage peripherals. It’s a SATA 1.5TB internal hard drive (32MB of cache) for a price of 11,970 yen, or $130. As for RAM, prices fall and it’s good to consider new possibilities on our desktops.

Here’s another external hard drive designed by Yano, the MetalWear EX 1.5TB. We are talking about an external hard drive with an aluminum case and 1.5TB of storage space (7200rpm).
Sold in Japan under the code name MTH1500EX, our external hard drive is equipped with Firewire ports 400 and 800, and eSATA ports and USB 2.0. This device is the perfect little bug for PC and Mac users (Yes, Linux users are welcome of course!).
Sold in Japan for more than 50,000 yen ($550), this MetalWear EX 1.5 TB will be available from December 24 in Japan. Just in time for a last minute Christmas gift.

Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies will develop affordable 2.5-inch hard drives for netbooks and PCs of the next year, and the price would be 40-50% cheaper than existing 2.5-inch entry models. It’s great news, although you can expect a decrease in performance with regard to new models, but anyway the netbooks are not designed to be super-powerful, but for occasional use. You can expect to see the first affordable hard drives for netbooks on the market at the second half of next year, global recession or not.

LG Korea has today released the XD4, new 3.5″ external hard drives (USB2.0). Available in 500GB, 750Go or 1TB, the new thin hard drive (35mm) has a unique cooling system by LG, and a Back-up button. No information for the price.

Iomega has introduced two new models of external hard drives for its eGo range: the Encrypt and BlackBelt. The latter includes the Drop Guard Xtreme feature that preserves your data in case of a fall. Regarding the Encrypt, you have the 128-bit Advanced Encryption Standard to secure your data, providing a password protection with an encryption software pre-installed. The Encrypt is available fo the price of $150, while the BlackBelt costs $120 with a 250GB of storage space.

IO Data announced in Japan a new SATAII hard drive (7200rpm) with 1.5TB of storage, the HDI-SAH7. Nothing really surprising you’ll tell me, especially a capacity of 1.5TB has become rather common these days, but what surprised the most here is its price: 30,600 Yen ($320)…
It is simply twice more expensive than the SEAGATE ST31500341AS hard drive of 1.5TB: 14,800 yen ($155).

Here is the MK5055GSX, a 2.5-inch SATA hard drive with a speed of 5400rpm, a density of 576.4Mbit/mm2, for only 25dB.

In short nothing more technically speaking, but we know that our hard drive is also available in several versions, with models ranging from 120, 160, 250, 320 and 400GB.

The MacBook Air is incredibly thin, then there is only one portable hard drive to go with it: the Iomega eGo Helium. It has an anodized aluminum case with a thickness of only 1.6cm and weighs 200g with a USB port for the power supply (and also for data transfer, of course). It is currently a 320GB version, but hope that there will be greater capacity external hard drives. Price: $149.99.