So, you’ve yourself a new portable hard drive with the intention of backing up your valuable data and carrying digital documents between computers and locations. For the average consumer, this may seem like a relatively simple process with any number of portable hard drives available on the market. You may find some that come with free backup software or a fancier-looking case, but they all function in fundamentally the same way, right?

Well, there’s one frustration that is shared with most of these portable hard drives. Looking just at the drives themselves, you oftentimes can’t tell what has been saved on it and how much capacity is left remaining for additional documents and files. This simple frustration has been simply overcome by the team at Verbatim with the announcement of the Verbatim InSight Portable Hard Drive.

By and large, this is still your regular run-of-the-mill portable hard drive, but it comes with one very notable difference. You’ll notice that there is a small display on there. This shows you the name of the disk volume and the amount of disk space remaining. The kicker is that this display will stay on even when the drive is not connected to a computer, since it has a small internal battery that supplies enough power for this simple functionality. I’ve seen similar displays in some USB drives, so this was a natural inclusion for a hard drive too.

The Verbatim InSight uses a 2.5-inch drive spinning at 5400rpm. You get 8MB of cache memory, USB 2.0 connectivity (bus powered), and a data transfer rate of up to 480MB/sec. The 320GB version is listed at $120, whereas the 500GB goes for $150.