By Darren Allan
Seagate has revealed the Innov8, a new external hard drive with a whopping capacity 3.5-inch disk inside the enclosure – and it’s a drive which doesn’t need to be plugged into a power socket.
As the name suggests, the Innov8 offers 8TB of storage, and uses an innovative system called Ignition Boost. Essentially, this means that there’s an internal battery present which boosts power during the drive’s spin-up, allowing the drive to simply run off the power drawn from the USB 3.1 cable it’s hooked up to the computer with.
In other words, USB power might not be enough to get the drive going, but it’s plenty enough to keep it running once it warms up, and to keep that internal battery charged.
Phil Yin, principal hardware technologist at Seagate, notes: “Once the drive has warmed up, its power requirement is reduced and the host system is able to recharge the battery.”
Aluminium enclosure
So, with the Innov8 you need one less cable, and the enclosure itself looks pretty neat and tidy too – it’s fashioned from aluminium, and thus nicely durable as well.
As Seagate notes, with 8TB of space it’s possible to fit around 800 HD movies on this drive, 4 million photos …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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