Seagate announces Seagate DJI Fly Drive

Source: Seagate. The Seagate DJI Fly Drive.

Drones are creating more content than ever before, and with the announcement of the Seagate DJI Fly Drive, managing that data is about to get easier. 

The first data solution to come from Seagate and DJI’s strategic partnership, Fly Drive portable external drive will allow drone pilots to efficiently back up their photo and video content on location, thanks to its large storage capacity, integrated MicroSD card slot, quick transfer speeds and durable build. It also comes with a complimentary two-month subscription to Adobe Premiere Pro CC*, part of Adobe Creative Cloud.

Fly Drive features:

• Up to 2TB of storage. On average, an hour of 4K 30fps compressed footage creates 30GB of data.
• MicroSD card slot
• Protective bumper provides shock resistance. A USB-C cable is stored in the bumper. 
• USB 3.1 Type C interface 

Interested?

The Seagate DJI Fly Drive will be available this summer (editor's note: roughly Q2 to Q3)

*Adobe Premiere Pro CC offer valid where available. 

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Seagate makes desktop backup solution more versatile

Seagate has introduced the Seagate Backup Plus Hub, with up to 8TB capacity, for backup storage.

Based on Seagate’s Backup Plus Desktop the solution includes two USB 3.0 ports for connecting and charging devices. The USB slots can charge up to two devices even if the computer is not powered on.

Devices connected directly to the Backup Plus Hub can be used for data transfers as if they were plugged directly into a computer. The Backup Plus Hub is also compatible with Android and iOS devices.

Cloud backup is available with the Seagate Dashboard software, which includes 200GB of Microsoft OneDrive cloud storage free for two years.

Interested?

The 8TB Backup Plus Hub is available at Challenger outlets in Singapore for S$599.

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Hitachi drives receive vote of confidence

In a January 2014 blog post, cloud-based backup provider Backblaze says Hitachi and Western Digital drives have been the most reliable of the drives it has used so far. 

Brian Beach, Distinguished Engineer, Backblaze, shared that the annual failure rate of a Seagate 1.5TB drive was about 14% for its data centre, against Hitachi's 2TB drives at roughly 1% and Western Digital 1TB drives, which had a failure rate of 3%. The company uses 3TB drives from all three storage manufacturers, and Seagate had the highest failure rate at about 9%, followed by Western Digital at around 3%, and Hitachi at around 1%. In the 4TB space, Hitachi drives performed more reliably than Seagate drives, while Western Digital 4TB drives were not used.

"If the price were right, we would be buying nothing but Hitachi drives. They have been rock solid, and have had a remarkably low failure rate," he said in his post. 

While the choice may be easy to make on the face of these figures, Beach further explains that older drives are generally failing more, and that some of the Seagate drives which failed were replacements provided as part of warranties, and possibly refurbished drives rather than brand-new. 

The comments for the article are a mixed bag, with no clear support for any one brand and notes that batches of a particular model can turn out 'bad'. Still, it is useful to note which models various users have warned against.
 
However reliable the hard drive, it is always best to back data up somewhere, whether on cloud storage through a service like Backblaze, manually onto Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive, or onto a separate disk.