You thought that massive hard drives were only available for desktop applications and that the notebook crowd had to lag behind? That’s not completely true! Western Digital is always pushing the envelope when it comes to mobile hard drives too and they’ve just announced one of the biggest ones to date.

The most notable thing about the new WD Scorpio Blue line of 2.5-inch mobile drives is that it is available with up to one terabyte of capacity. Yes, you read that correctly. It is very well possible for your laptop to be equipped with a full terabyte of storage capacity. To go along with the massive amount of storage, the WD Scorpio Blue hard drive features a 3Gb/s transfer rate and it comes equipped with a couple of Western Digital’s signature features.

WhisperDrive combines a series of state-of-the-art seeking algorithms to make for one of the quietest drives on the market. The ShockGuard uses both firmware and hardware technologies to offer high-end shock tolerance. Since this is going into a notebook, random drops and shakes are probably quite common, so the ShockGuard will certainly come in handy. You also get SecurePark, which parks the recording heads off the disk surface so the recording head never touches the disk surface. This extends long-term reliability.

The 1TB WD Scorpio Blue hard drive is listed at $250 on its own or $299.99 as a My Passport Essential SE portable drive. Those are in American dollars. If you want to save a little bit of money, the Scorpio Blue also ships as a 750GB model for $190. The My Passport Essential SE version is $199.99.