Samsung recently announced a new external hard disk drive, the STORY Station Plus. The new line-up of 3.5-inch external hard drives feature an external serial ATA (eSATA) interface to allow lightning fast data transfer and boast of mammoth 2TB of storage capacity.

Offering greater flexibility, STORY Station Plus users can utilize either the 480 megabit per second (Mbps) USB 2.0 or the 3.0 Gbps eSATA interface.

The STORY Station Plus line-up will also feature Samsung’s low standby power design that reduces the standby power by 96 percent to 0.1 watts (W) from the conventional 2.5W.

Other key features include Samsung Auto Backup for ongoing data preservation, SecretZone software for personal data encryption and SafetyKey for password protection.

The STORY Station Plus drives will be available globally by the end of November 2009. The STORY Station Plus features a three-year limited warranty and the 2TB version has a $299.