Early this month, Samsung announced that it was launching the 500 GB laptop hard drive. Samsung is the first manufacturer to ship and, undoubtedly, other manufacturers will follow:

“…The 500GB drive marks a significant milestone in portable storage: On notebooks that support dual-hard drive configurations, a 500GB drive means you can have a whopping 1TB of storage in a laptop computer.”

link: Samsung First to Ship 500GB Laptop Hard Drive

I received an email from one of the people in the security software industry and he has tried one of these drives in an external 2.5 inch housing. He is finding that it works well but that the cost may be prohibitive to some - presently around the three hundred dollar ($300.00) price point. Therefore, with a change of the laptop hard drive, plus an external housing and a healthy bank account, it is possible to have a very portable 1 TB of storage.

The note of pessimism that I have with that amount of portable storage is that it is a huge load of data to lose, if there was a security breach. Depending on the size of the individual files or data base, the security breach could be an astronomical figure .

Catherine Forsythe
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