Samsung's S2 Portable Hard rive has MJ's "This Is It" pre-loaded

Right up there in the vein of radical (not necessarily cool, but radical) device promos, is Samsung’s launch of it’s 500GB S2 Portable, a portable external hard drive — preloaded with the late great Michael Jackson‘s last money-making venture “This Is It“. Saw this at TrendyNetNews.com:

Samsung announced the Samsung S2 Portable, a fully transportable external hard drive, pre-loaded with the movie ‘Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT’.

Timed with the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of ‘Michael Jackson’s THIS IS IT’, the pre-loaded external HDD will be available at major European retailers from February 22, 2010.

“We are excited to present this movie starring Michael Jackson, the greatest entertainer of all time, pre-loaded on the Samsung S2 Portable,” said H.S. Lee, Vice President, Storage Marketing, Samsung Electronics.

Samsung’s S2 Portable has an increased capacity of 500GB and its improved data recording technology makes it the perfect solution for the increasing number of consumers who are building their personal movie collections on their PCs.

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Original Samsung S2 Portable Hard Drives

The special edition 500GB Samsung S2 Portable - with the MJ silhouette, of course

If you’re an MJ fan, AND you need a portable hard drive, this might be the solution for you. Otherwise, it’s just a USB external hard drive — 500GB capacity, and all the usual software that comes along with it. all in all, we see no compelling factor that differentiates this from say — a DIGISTOR multi-interface external hard drive — and the latter actually has FireWire 400/800 ports as an added feature. But if you really want a digital copy of This Is It, then by all means, have a ball.