External HDD with always-on LCD

[3ngor]

Verbatim have announced a new external hard-drive, though you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for a set of kitchen scales. The InSight USB Portable Hard Drive has an always-on LCD which permanently displays the drive’s name and its capacity; it’s updated every time the InSight is connected or disconnected from the host PC or Mac.

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Otherwise you’re looking at a pretty ordinary external hard-drive, with 320GB or 500GB on offer – which seems on the low side to us – and no separate PSU required. On sale now, priced at $119.99 for the 320GB and $149.99 for the 500GB.

Also

The 2.5″ drives have a 5400rpm spindle speed and 8MB of cache memory to optimize performance. Equipped with a USB 2.0 port, the bus-powered drives achieve high-speed transfer rates of up to 480MB/sec.

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With that last tidbit I have a question to ask...

What powers the 'always-on' LCD?

[Chris]

It's probably only powered and re-charged when plugged in but the data is stored on an internal battery, much like the one used to store BIOS data.

[MiniKilla]

once plugged in the lcd will keep on and i like the new idea verbatim and the price can work wid

[3ngor]

oh ok i think i understand

Ah yea yall right...wuz about to give up but i finally found it

The Always On Display is probably powered by an internal rechargeable battery