Verbatim unveils 500 GB SmartDisk portable HDD

Verbatim has announced its plans to release a new 500 GB portable hard drive for later this year. Aside from carrying some of the more standard features of the SmartDisk line, this new drive will also carry a reasonable price tag. Details are available in the full article.

Not only are hard drives getting faster and bigger, it looks like they’re getting cheaper too. Verbatim is sending word that it’s readying of a new 2.5-inch SmartDisk portable HDD for later this year, which will boast 500 GB worth of memory.

Verbatim’s new offering will carry all the standard features of the SmartDisk line, including a 5400rpm spindle speed, and 8MB of cache memory. Verbatim will offer the new drive with either a USB, or a combo FireWire/USB interface.

Perhaps most interesting regarding this half-terabyte drive, however, is its price tag. Verbatim plans to its USB-only kit on retail for around US$ 300. It’ll still burn a hole on your wallet, but it’s considerably more affordable than some of the similar high-cap HDDs currently out in the market. Expect Verbatim’s new SmartDisk to arrive in the second quarter of 2008.