Seagate launches consumer electronics HDDs

New Delhi

June 28, 2004

Seagate Technology has announced the expansion of its line of consumer electronics hard disc drives, unveiling a 5GB 1-inch hard drive for hand-held applications, a new 400GB hard drive for DVR (digital video recorder) and home entertainment systems and a 5GB 1-inch Compact Flash external hard drive to give consumers up to 5,000 Mbytes of storage for digital cameras.

According to the press release, the new Seagate ST1 Series, offering 2.5GB and 5GB capacities, lets consumers download larger libraries of higher-fidelity music to pocket players. Seagate's new RunOn Technology eliminates music skipping caused by interference from jogging or walking motions.

The Seagate ST1 Series can hold up to 90 hours of high-quality music files (128 Mbytes) and its time-to-ready is 2.5 seconds or less. The ST1 Series disc drive is compatible with all existing integration standards for portable disc drive-based devices. ST1 Series drives are also compatible with all forms of digital media.

The new Seagate Compact Flash Photo Hard Drive offers 2,500 Mbytes and 5,000 Mbytes of capacity for digital cameras in a tiny 1-inch size. It plugs into standard Compact Flash slots on many of today's digital video and still cameras.

The new Seagate DB35 Series hard drive offers 400GB capacity for digital video entertainment, enabling new television services such as video on demand, high-definition
DVRs, and home media centers. The DB35 Series drive delivers up to 10 simultaneous streams of TV and Seagate's new DVR toolkit to let manufacturers custom-tune the drive for optimal DVR performance. The drive is also available as a customizable external DVR storage solution enabling DVR makers and cable and satellite TV service providers to offer viewers more room to store programs.

- CyberMedia News