14 DAY TRIAL // While the rest of the storage industry is moving towards more affordable and higher-performance Flash-based Solid State Drives (SSD), Verbatim continues to provide its customers with storage solutions based on the traditional hard disk drive. The company has announced today the launch of the new InSight Portable USB hard drive series, designed as an enclosure with a piano black finish and an integrated display that is reportedly capable of providing the end user with details on available storage, even when the drive isn't connected to the computer system. Available in capacities of 320GB and 500GB, the new stylish Verbatim external hard drive is designed as a product for both Mac and PC users.
“The new enclosure design for InSight Portable Hard Drives adds a touch of elegance to the external hard drive product category,” says Charles Klinker, Verbatim’s director of marketing, HDD Products. “Users have the option to personalize their drive’s name, e.g., TUNES&PICS, which, along with the free space, shows on the 32 x 128-pixel display even when the drive is unplugged from the user’s computer. The ability to quickly glance at several drives and identify the one that has pictures of the kids, your music collection or video library, for example, adds a level of convenience not previously available in portable hard drives.”
The new product has been equipped with small, low-power 2.5-inch hard drives that boast a 5400RPM spindle speed and 8MB of cache memory, features that are designed to improve the performance of the external drive. The drive is equipped with a traditional USB 2.0 port and can be connected to both PC and Mac computer systems. To sweeten the offer, Verbatim has included the Nero BackItUp Essentials, a software application that is designed to provide users with support for full, automatic system backup and restore functions.
The drive measures 153 mm x 87 mm x 16 mm and weighs less than 164 grams, according to Verbatim, which makes it a noteworthy alternative for a portable storage solution. Already available at Best Buy, the 320GB InSight Portable USB hard drive from Verbatim goes for a suggested retail price of US$119.99, while the 500GB version will cost you US$149.99.