Whatever your reasons, we're sure just about everyone could envision a way to fill up a single terabyte of hard drive space, and while achieving such a milestone in one machine has long been available via a bevy of internal drives, Hitachi's 1TB Deskstar 7K1000 drive has made things a lot simpler. Not waiting around for prices to plummet, Dell is touting itself as the world's first pre-fab PC maker to offer up the ginormous HDD in its machines, initially selling it within the cases of the Alienware-branded rigs and ensuring the XPS beasts follow suit shortly. Currently, Alienware is offering up the 1TB drive for $500 above the price of the included 250GB SATA HDD, so if you've got the means, now you've got the option.

Another day, another NAS. This time it's NEC bringing the goods, with a relatively small 8.66-inch tall enclosure and a lockable front door. The forthcoming NS50 packs a 600MHz Intel XScale processor, 256MB of RAM, dual LAN ports, and twin USB 2.0 connectors, and plays nice with a slew of Windows and Linux-based operating environments. Per usual, the box connects via gigabit Ethernet and can be managed through a secure web connection as well as remotely, and touts support for Microsoft's Active Directory as well. NEC claims the unit can integrate seamlessly as an FTP server or as a "soon to be announced" print server, and can run things in RAID 0/1/5 or JBOD, whichever you please. NEC's perfectly average NS50 should hit shops next month for £949 ($1,845) if you're digging the 1TB (4 x 250GB) version, while the 2TB (4 x 500GB) flavor will set you back a whopping £1589 ($3,088).

With spacious NAS drives rocking everything from WiFi to fancy enclosures, sometimes we forget the primary focus of such networked storage devices. Prestigio gets back to the basics with its Storage NAS-540 (which admittedly resembles a small safe), sporting four hot-swappable 3.5-inch half terabyte SATA hard drives, gigabit Ethernet, and the full suite of configuration options: RAID 0, 1, 5, and JBOD. Although wireless connectivity isn't built-in, it does support a mini-PCI WiFi upgrade, and touts its (uninspiring) abilities to automatically assign IP addresses, run scheduled backups, and receive administration solely from a web browser. To its credit, however, Prestigio did throw in a USB 2.0 port for those moments where quick, unplanned access is needed, and you'll even get automatic email alerts / event logs if anything traumatic should happen to your data. While information concerning pricing and availability has yet to be released, this shouldn't run you too much more than any other run-of-the-mill 2TB NAS device whenever it drops.