Take Along 0.3 TerabyteYou may travel light when it comes to shirts, socks, and underwear, but travel heavy when it comes to packing documents and data. Western Digital Corp. is ready to play bellhop with a new 320GB edition of its palm-sized, USB 2.0 bus-powered Passport portable hard drive.

The 4-ounce, piano-black Passport ($230) includes WD Sync software that synchronizes essential personal files and Microsoft Outlook data from one PC to another, as well as the Google Desktop Search and Google Toolbar Web-search applications and the Picasa photo organizer program. It protects data with 128-bit encryption.

Security-conscious travelers will also want to check out Apricorn’s Aegis Vault, a bus-powered, 2.5-inch portable drive that supports both a password-protected, AES-128 encrypted partition and multiple public partitions for data sharing. Equipped with an integrated USB cable, the Vault requires no software installation on the host computer.

The Aegis Vault is available in 80GB ($139), 120GB ($169), 160GB ($199), and 250GB ($269) capacities.

The increasing capacity of the storage is growth rapidly. Even portable storage has increased its capacity so much, look at Western Digital product, wow 320 GB, it’s really huge (my personal computer only has 2 x 40 GB hard drive). Just remember few years ago, may be in year 1999 or 2000,the year when we see 40GB is so huge capacity, but look at now, 40 GB hard drive is a discontinue product

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