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'Jersey Shore' aesthetic meets portable storage

Iomega is partnering with "sports fashion" brand Skin Industries to bring consumers a new line of graphically enhanced external hard drives that kind of look like they belong on the set of "Jersey Shore."

You get your choice of three styles (Radical, Knock Out, and Red Hot), and the 500GB drives are cut from the same Iomega eGo design cloth that earned our CNET Editors' Choice award for fast transfer speeds. They also come with a generous three-year warranty and Drop Guard technology that protects the drive from up to 4 feet in the air.

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Get a 1TB external hard drive for $50

How low can a terabyte of external storage go? I've seen the drives hit $90, then $80, and even occasionally the $70 mark. But $50? That's new. And awesome.

MacMall has the Fantom GreenDrive GD1000EU 1TB external hard drive for $49.99 (plus $9 or so for shipping). What's the catch? I call it rebate No. 1 and rebate No. 2.

Yep, the drive will cost you $99.99 up front, then end up at $49.99 after a pair of $25 rebate checks roll in (one each from Fantom and MacMall). I know that's a … Read more

Roundup: External hard drives for less than $150

Before you start furiously deleting precious music, photos, and movies from your computer, why not free up space and archive your library at the same time with an external hard drive?

Storage vendors like Seagate, Samsung, and LaCie are competing to offer the lowest cost-per-gigabyte on the market, which means generous cost savings for the end consumer.

And you don't just get a slab of hardware, either--most drives come preinstalled with automatic backup software that let you specify data profiles and exactly which folders on your system drive to sync with the external, so in the unfortunate event of … Read more

Get a 2TB external hard drive for $119.99

Do you need extra storage space?  Well, you've come to the right Cheapskate.

At Newegg, you can get a Seagate Expansion 2TB external hard drive for $119.99 with free shipping--tax is extra where applicable--by using coupon code EMCYSZW58.  To use the coupon, you must subscribe to get the free Newegg newsletter.

I'll be honest: I hesitated choosing this deal today because I don't know a single person who needs 2TB of storage space. I certainly don't. The 750GB drive in my desktop is about 40 percent empty and has been that way … Read more