Seagate's large capability external tough disk throws away the power cable

Seagate has discovered the Innov8, a brand new outside difficult pressure with a whopping capability three.5-inch disk within the enclosure – and it's a force which does not want to be plugged right into a electricity socket.

as the name shows, the Innov8 offers 8TB of garage, and makes use of an modern machine called Ignition raise. basically, which means there is an internal battery gift which boosts power during the pressure's spin-up, permitting the drive to truly run off the strength drawn from the USB three.1 cable it's installed to the laptop with.

In other phrases, USB power may not be sufficient to get the power going, but it is lots enough to preserve it running as soon as it warms up, and to maintain that internal battery charged.

Phil Yin, principal hardware technologist at Seagate, notes: "once the drive has warmed up, its strength requirement is decreased and the host device is capable of recharge the battery."

Aluminium enclosure

So, with the Innov8 you need one less cable, and the enclosure itself appears pretty neat and tidy too – it is common from aluminium, and hence nicely durable as properly.

As Seagate notes, with 8TB of space it's viable to suit around 800 HD movies on this force, 4 million photos or 2 million songs. As a bonus, customers get 200GB of storage on Microsoft's OneDrive cloud locker.

The Seagate Dashboard software program also lets in for one-click or scheduled backups.

So how an awful lot will this as an alternative nifty outside force set you back? whilst the Innov8 comes out a little later this month, it will retail at $349 (around £240, AU$455).