DJI, Seagate Unveil Drone-Themed Hard Drive

Seagate and DJI have teamed upwardly to create a drone-themed portable difficult drive, designed to chop-chop offload footage captured by drones in the field.

The 2TB Seagate DJI Fly Bulldoze goes on auction this summer for $119.99. It's a conventional drive, not an SSD, so information technology's competing against drives with similar capacity that price effectually $80, similar the WD My Passport series. Only the Fly Bulldoze's price includes two costless months of access to the cloud version of Adobe Premiere Pro CC, which normally costs $19 per month.

Seagate DJI Fly Drive

You likewise go a protective bumper that vaguely resembles a quadcopter. Seagate isn't making any specific promises about its shock assimilation capabilities, as manufacturers routinely exercise for ruggedized drives, but any extra protection should come in handy if you're using the drive on a rocky landing surface, for instance.

And that is how Seagate envisions most people will utilize the Fly Drive: equally a data receptacle that's always close at hand in the field so that footage can be offloaded from a drone while you swap its batteries earlier sending it back up in the air. 2TB will shop more than than sixty hours of 4K footage shot at 30 frames per second, which is about how much a DJI Mavic Pro will capture after 250 flights.

The drive comes with a built-in MicroSD card slot and USB-C support for apace moving footage to your PC or Mac for editing. And just in case you've got multiple drives at habitation and tin can't think where you put the footage from your flights, the drive has both DJI and Seagate logos to help you retrieve.