Mac users love giant local storage drives, and Iomega knows it, designing the UltraMax Mac Pro-inspired baby HDD towers to accompany the heaviest machinery out of Cupertino. The latest edition is the one on the far left, the single-drive UltraMax Desktop Hard Drive, with one eSATA, two FireWire 800, one FireWire 400…

We've seen flash drives from OCZ before, but these 2GB OCZ Rally 2 FireWire flash drives add an extra layer of convenience, letting you plug them into FireWire 400 or FireWire 800 ports instead of USB. Heck, even a lot of PC users have FireWire ports available.

Look at how plump the Western Digital My Book Pro has gotten, now at 1TB. It's now called the My Book Pro Edition II, and still looks like a book, but now more like a fat dictionary. Best of all, it holds twice the stuff, but isn't quite twice as expensive.

WeibeTech just enhanced its ToughTech Enclosure, where the company raised the bar on performance while adding more connectivity to the equation. The company started out by goosing its Oxford 924 bridge which performs faster than its Oxford 922 predecessor when using FireWire 800 and USB 2.0. Then there's that…

Western Digital is now shipping its My Book Pro Edition ($350), a 500GB external hard disk that works with Macs and PCs and has a triple play of interfaces including FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. Besides adding that lickety-split FireWire 800 connectivity, it's a 7200 RPM drive, just like its 500GB brandmates …

Cornet joins the one terabyte club with the Maximus Platinum drive. Sporting USB 2.0 and both Firewire 400 and 800, this drive should be great for owners of the MacBook Pro 17", which still has the Firewire 800 port. Windows XP and 2000 are also supported.