Buffalo Brings Out DriveStation Axis Velocity & MiniStation Extreme

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External hard drives are the great unsung heroes of the computing age, folks. Most every other function, if you want to upgrade it, you have to open up your computer and add something to the internals. More processing power? Open it up and replace the motherboard. More RAM? Open it up. Even many components require internal additions. But storage, now, that’s different. And with the MiniStation Extreme and the DriveStation Axis Velocity from the folks at Buffalo, you’ll have a set of new options, whether you want something to ride your desktop or travel with you.

The MiniStation Extreme is your traveling buddy, offering up your choice of 500 gig or full terabyte capacities, as well as some interesting portability boosts like a wraparound USB cable and shock protection, It’s got 256-bit AES hardware encryption to keep your data safe from any but the most determined hackers, as well as USB 3.0 capability (it’s backward compatible with USB 2.0, in case you don’t quite have the hardware for the faster transfer rate) to make sure you don’t break something while you move it from place to place.

Meanwhile, the DriveStation Axis Velocity is the homebody version, offering up your choice of one, two or three terabyte versions and that same 256-bit AES hardware encryption, as well as 7200 RPM spinning and that same USB 3.0 connection that will work with USB 2.0 as well.

And they’ll even offer these up at some nice prices, with the MiniStation Extreme going for $95 for the 500 meg level, stepping up to $130 for the full terabyte. The DriveStation Axis Velocity, meanwhile, will offer you a lot better deal, asking $95 for one terabyte, $135 for two terabytes, and letting you up that to three terabytes for $180.

It’s a pretty nice set of storage options, and depending on your circumstances you’ll do pretty well here either way. You might need something portable, or you might need a lot of storage, and either way you’ll be abundantly covered no matter what.

So what do you guys think? Which one of these drives would you rather have? Me, I prefer big storage over portability, so I’d be sticking with the Axis Velocity. But which ever drive you’d go with, tell us which your preference is in the comments section below.