The industry's first 1-terabyte hard drive for the 2.5-inch form factor.

CORP TALK: Western Digital has just announced two mobile hard drives — the highlight being one is a terabyte model for the 2.5-inch form factor category. The other model is a 750GB version.

With 333 Gigabytes-per-platter technology and a 3 gigabits per second (3Gb/s) transfer rate, the WD Scorpio Blue SATA 2.5-inch hard drives have a 12.5mm form factor and is suitable for portable storage devices. While most notebooks use the 9mm form factor, there are some notebook models, as well as small form factor desktop PCs, which will find these drives suitable.

The WD Scorpio Blue 750GB (model WD7500KEVT) will cost US$189.99 while the 1 Terabyte version (model WD10TEVT) will cost US$249.99. Both come with three-year limited warranties.

The CeBIT 09-announced ASUS Lamborghini VX5 boasts a 1-terabyte solid state drive, Core 2 Quad processor, 16-inch Full HD display, NVIDIA GeForce graphics and Blu-ray drive.

T&A: Looks like ultra-large storage space with no moving parts is fast becoming a hot topic, especially when it comes bundled in a top-of-the-line notebook. Unveiled at the CeBIT tradeshow, currently ongoing in Hannover, Germany (of which yes, our Vijay Anand, Editor for HardwareZone.com is there reporting), ASUS has revealed its latest ASUS Lamborghini VX5 notebook which packs the 1-terabyte solid state drive (SSD). 

The notebook itself boasts an Intel Core 2 Quad processor, 4GB memory, 16.9-inch Full HD display, an NVIDIA GeForce GT130M graphics chipset with GDDR3 1GB VRAM, illuminated keyboard and a Blu-ray Disc combo optical drive. 

No pricing info yet, but we’re guessing it’s going to be as stratospheric as the high-end specs here.