USB 3.1 Powered 8TB Drive

Product Description

Enter a new era of personal desktop storage with the Seagate® Innov8. With a staggering 8TB of storage, you can reliably access your vast archive of music and videos, along with all of your other important documents, projects and irreplaceable photos. Innov8’s uniqueness and durability offer a premium touch while helping to protect much of what you enjoy and hold dear. The Innov8 HDD is the first 8TB USB-powered desktop storage on the market that uses a single, reversible USB-C cable. You can power the Innov8 and have easy access to all of your great content. In addition, Seagate Ignition Boost™ technology brings an amazing engineering feat to you. By combining Ignition Boost technology with USB 3.1, you no longer need an extra power source or adapter dedicated to your desktop storage. Innov8’s all-aluminum enclosure is sturdy and well-balanced. The stacked, wraparound layers frame a chiseled manufacturing finesse, reinforcing the durability and singular purpose of the drive’s architecture. Finally, the recessed top of Innov8 features an interpretation of the concentric disk icon, and is playfully reminiscent of Seagate’s earliest and most successful hard drive design.

Features

• Impressive 8TB storage capacity
• USB powered desktop hard drive
• Features Seagate Ignition Boost technology and USB 3.1 so you no longer need an extra power source or adapter
• All aluminum enclosure for simplicity and durability
• System requirements: PC or Mac with a USB 3.1 Type-C port (note: use with third party USB Type-A to Type-C cables or adapters is not supported)

Top Reviews

Seagate Innov8
by Robert N. James (5 out of 5 stars)
January 31, 2017

There are a couple of things to keep in mind with this product. One as previously mentioned you must have a USB 3.1 Type C connection on your computer. Adapter cables will not work. If you have USB 3.0 connectors then do not buy it. It only works with USB 3.1 Type C connection. Secondly this is a HDD unit. It is not a SSD so even with faster transfer rates the limiting factor is that it is HDD. Please read the literature before buying unit or will be disappointed. It is a single HDD so there is no RAID configuration.

The unit is solid, study, attractive metal. It has excellent backup software that comes with, It is 8 terabytes so there is plenty of storage. Please read and follow directions to set the unit up. I didn't. If you do not follow directions your computer may not recognize the drive. A tip if the computer tries to download the drivers then delete them and install drivers from the CD included. The USB cord is very short, about a foot and 3/4. If you need to have your drive a distance from your computer I would advise ordering a longer USB 3.1 Type C cable. The drive works fine from the USB connection so there are no external power bricks as it gets power from the USB.

The unit has no fans to cause noise and the metal fins which look good are for cooling the unit. Very well made. Once I got everything connected and drivers installed unit works great. A two year warranty. Transfer rates are improved but as I said the HDD itself is going to limit read/write speeds. The software package makes this unit worth the money and the 5 stars.
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Solid (single cable) drive at very good price point.
by Chris (5 out of 5 stars)
February 12, 2017

I read all (then 14) reviews non this product before purchasing. Seemed like all poor reviews were posted by individuals unfamiliar with the USB-C type connector, and those unhappy that their laptop only had one or none of these. Both reasons irrelevant to the drive. This drive meets my needs by using only one cable to power and connect to my 2016 MBP. Speed tests revealed only a 120Mbps write speed (much lower than USB3 ceiling) but typical of most modern HDD drives and adequate for my purposes. For the price ~270, this is a solid drive. Side note, I wish the company posted the read/write performance in the tech specs.
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Finally a USB-C drive.
by M. Kemper (5 out of 5 stars)
January 29, 2017

Plugged into a Windows 10 desktop (purchased in the last year, made sure it had three USB-C ports for future proofing) and it worked. Thrilled you don't have to plug into a separate power source. Worked perfectly, pre-formatted as exFat (reformatted in seconds to NTFS). Very heavy and too short of a USB-C cable. As others have said, don't buy if you don't have a free (e.g., not used for charging a laptop) USB-C port. Be careful: Some marketing departments label non-USB-C ports as USB 3.1. I've been waiting awhile for a USB-C drive and am very satisfied.
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Extremly fast and elegent design
by Amazon Customer (5 out of 5 stars)
December 14, 2016

Delivers as expected. Just one single USB-C cable for power and data saves clutter on my desk. Works well on my 2016 DELL XPS 13
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USB 3.1 Type C but most importantly GEN 2 and 1.5 a power out
by Nightfly (3 out of 5 stars)
April 19, 2017

This is a beautiful, well engineered, technically advanced and manufactured external drive at an amazing price! The Innov8 works with Type-C hosts which advertise Power Delivery of 1.5A or higher. If the host does not advertise 1.5A or greater, the Innov8 will not spin up and will flash an error LED signal. That unfortunately is the case with my setup. I have a USB 3.1 Type C port but it is GEN 1 and supports only 900ma and won't drive this Seagate. I really wanted it to work but sadly I had to return it but if you have the right USB 3.1 Gen 2 1.5 a or better port you are good to go! I wish Seagate would manufacture a option to have a "brick" provide the power and use the USB 3.1 for data only. This would open up the market for this drive and I would have one today!
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excellent. Coming from SATA3
by Tim R (5 out of 5 stars)
May 2, 2017

excellent. Coming from SATA3, writing speed fluctuates between 110Mb/sec to 35Mb/sec, not sure the reason.. from SSD -> Innov8 = 196Mb/sec.
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Five Stars
by Ronald P. (5 out of 5 stars)
August 27, 2017

Great for backing up computer. Fast.
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awesome drive
by Kenny Der (5 out of 5 stars)
May 8, 2017

very heavy duty build, no external power adapter needed......wish i could find another to buy at the same great price
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Didn't work for me.
by Ben Caine (1 out of 5 stars)
April 28, 2017

Unfortunate. I had high hopes for this one. It seemed to connect at first, but was never able to correctly identify itself or read/write. I only have one PC with a USB-C port so I can only test that it failed on one system. Other USB-C devices connect well on my PC, but not this one. I had to return it. I may try it again in a year or so when the technology is more refined.
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Design priorities ended up isolating your device. Bus-powered but not portable (it is not the same t
by Cristiano Valois (4 out of 5 stars)
November 1, 2016

Works really fast, I think all seagate produts have a better cost-benefit as compared with others, it is sturdy and beautiful, but there are three humongous problems that should be reviewed in a next version. I start enumerating the con points:
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It is heavy and weighs like a bible. I think people who own such light notebook have a problem with heavy stuff, so it is not really portable, it is only bus-powered, that is an important distinction that is lost on manufacturers.
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It uses the same single port C so you cannot connect the devices and cannot charge the computer when it is on. If you want to correct this imperfection, the logical solution would be buy a hub. There are plenty of beautiful expensive hubs - don't buy them. All their C ports, apart from the one that connects to the computer are only charging usb C 3.1 ports, not data-there is only one which has an extra usb C 3.1 DATA TRANSFER PORT: USecore USB-C Hub with 4K Output HDMI Port, 3 USB-C Port and Power Delivery, 2 USB 3.0 Port, 1 Presenter with Laser Point for New MacBook and ChromeBook Pixel. If you buy the other hubs, the device will be on, but usa it will be totally unable to tranfer data to your computer (whose single port must be connected to the C data port on the nub) or anyone else connected to the hub. Then buy a longer usb C DATA transfer cable than the one that accompanieds the product. Finally you can lay in bed and use it with comfort.
3. I guess people who are prone to buy an 8 T external drive instead of a flash drive with a C data port, are really in need of SPACE - they have myriads of photo or video projects, and blueray movies. So they would be glad to transfer its data directly to a bigger machine or viceversa.

Well well, the fact is that the lonely port isolates the computer, no mac computer on the market comes with a usb C 3.1 port or usb A 3.1, so it will only work on the macbook. If you want to transfer an archive to other computer you will have to use airdrop or, if it is too large, you will have to buy a dual flash drive with both entries usb C and A, transfer the archive to the macbook, then transfer it to your other computer... You can connect it to a computer endowed with a USB A port but only if it has a USB A 3.1 port, which is s rarity. In this case, you should buy the Belkin product cited in questions and answers because it is the only one with both 3.1 usb A and usb C ends, all others have a usb C 3.1 port but a usb 3.0 port, which does not carry enough energy to power your seagate. The engineers should simply add to the C port a usb A 3.0 port only working at lower speeds of 5 gps to use it with other machines.

When you used the 3.0 port, you would connect the cobble to a power source via a simple power cable), or add a battery with an indicator of the amount left. All external storage products that generate an own wifi net (seagate has the smallest and fastest with 1 or 2T, it lasts some 8 hours.), since they are portable and meant to be used outdoors, come with rechargeable batteries, so the technology is there.

When used with usb 3.1 up it would be fully bus-powered. My theory is that the designer wanted to make it as minimalistic as the macbook, but that is precisely macbook achilles' heel, so they should have known better and give the customer some wriggle room!

Now, the cons (lesser space does not mean lesser weight, only that I had to go into the woods of different cables and usb generations, which is not so easy to understand first time).

When I saw this external storage device, 8 T bus-powered, I bought and waited anxiously. I felt proud, save for fact that it worked only in isolation with the macbook. I thing it is worth the price - I feel no difference from an SSD, you can boot from it, leave inside it a virtual machine or your dropbox so they will not overcharge your laptop and use all your onedrive soace to the full.

Think, How much would you pay for an 8T device, if it existed? I think the price for a 1 T SSD is around 500 and it goes up the bigger the storage room disproportionately, so that a 500 costs 50% more than 250 together and so on. And this is cutting-edge tecnology, which will survive the 3.0-up and thunderbolt 2-up transition.

Well, I thing that is an exaustive list of pros and cons which sums up all queries and answers, as well of the gist of the comments, and can serve all the info about the device that could weigh on her decision.

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