Verbatim Americas announced two new Quad Interface Desktop Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) with capacities of 500GB and 1TB. The pro audio/video-grade storage and backup solutions offer Mac and PC users universal connectivity with plug and play support for all four of the leading interfaces: USB 2.0, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and eSATA II (external Serial ATA II). With these connection options and the equivalent of 1000 Gigabytes of storage, the new external drives support audio, video, digital photography and music professionals as well as graphics applications where capacity, performance and reliability are essential.

Verbatim's new Quad-interface Desktop HDDs weigh 3.3 lbs. and measure 8.7 in. X 5.9 in. X 1.5 in. The 3.5" drives feature a 7200rpm spindle speed and 32MB of cache memory. A silent cooling fan is also included.

With a choice of four interfaces, Verbatim's new high-capacity Desktop HDDs offer cross-platform interoperability to simplify file sharing for designers that need to collaborate on creating and editing projects. With this capability, digital video, music and imaging professionals can move large files from one system to another without rebooting their computers.

Offering broad compatibility and high performance, the bus-powered drives deliver transfer speeds of up to 480 Mbit/s (60 MB/s) when connected to a USB 2.0 port, up to 400 Mbits/s (50 MB/s) for FireWire 400 connections, up to 800 Mbits (100MB/s) for FireWire 800 and up to 3.0 GB/s (300MB/s) for eSATA II connections.

Verbatim's 500GB and 1TB Quad-interface Desktop HDDs also include Nero BackItUp 2 Essentials, a solution for automatic backup on Windows systems. Nero BackItUp 2 incorporates scheduling, backup sets and encryption as well as password control.

Verbatim's 500GB and 1TB Quad Interface Desktop Hard Drives are compatible with Windows 2000, XP or Vista as well as Mac OS X 10.1 or higher systems. The drives include an AC power cord; USB 2.0 A-B cable; FireWire 1394a, 1394b bilingual and 1394b Beta cables, an eSATA cable, Nero backup software and a user guide.