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Seagate 10 New Products for Digital Content

June 9th, 2006        

Seagate today announced 10 new products for digital content. The Seagate ST18 series, LD25 series, DB35 series, Seagate Mirra Sync and Share Personal Server, Seagates 8.0GB Porcket Drive, Momentus family 2.5-inch notebook HDD, Barracuda ES and Savvio 10K.2. We guess we gotta burn our keyboard explaining every each of them. We will only provide some pictures and description for each. More info after the break.

ST18 is Seagates first 1.8inch HDD which has a capacity of 60GB with CE-ATA/IDE/ZIF interface and it has cache memory of 2MB with 3600rpm speed. It is specially designed for portable media players, GPS system, digital video cameras and palmtop PCs. It offers a best-in-class features including G-Force Protection, a tech that increase robustness to 1500Gs. It should be the toughest and the most sophisticated drive on the market.

LD25 series 2.5-inch drives is built specifically for game console, home entertainment devices and small footprint media PCs. Built with Seagates DynaPlay technology, the drives provide optimal media streaming, power consumption and content security, enhancing traditional gaming capabilities by allowing them to expand and create game soundtracks, rip and store entire libraries of music and video, and play-back multimedia. Currently available in 20GB, 30GB and 40GB capacities, the new LD25 Series drives will add 60GB and 80GB capacities.

DB35 series 3.5-inch HDD is now available in 750GB capacity. DynaPlay Technology fine-tunes the drives operating parameters for entertainment applications, including performance for uninterrupted digital media, security to enhance fair use of digital programming, and power to give manufacturers more leeway in selecting cost-efficient power supplies and keep internal temperatures under control. The DB35 Series drives are also based on perpendicular recording technology.

The Seagate Mirra Sync and Share Personal Server is now available with Mac connectivity in 320GB and 500GB capacities. The server allows remote access to digital content from anywhere, anytime via the Internet and is the ideal tool to sync, share and protect data between PC and Mac computers in SOHO, small businesses and networked home environments. The Seagate Mirra Sync and Share Personal Server is the only product that combines a suite of content protection features as well as free online user accounts allowing secure remote access and file sharing with family, friends and colleagues.

Seagates 8.0GB Pocket Drive gives users huge storage capacity in a pocket size mobile package. The drive can carry a seemingly endless amount and type of data, including up to 2,560 digital photos, 133 hours of digital music, eight hours of digital video or four computer games.

Three of Seagates Momentus family 2.5-inch notebook PC hard drives are now available with perpendicular recording technology to deliver unmatched mobile computing capacities of 160GB. The drives include the Momentus 5400 PSD, a 2.5-inch notebook hybrid hard drive that combines rotating disc storage with flash memory for greater power efficiency, faster boot-ups and increased reliability;

The Momentus 5400.2 FDE, the industrys only 2.5-inch encrypting drive that delivers the highest levels of protection for data on lost, stolen or retired notebook PCs;

The Momentus 7200.2, a 7200-RPM drive for high-performance laptops. A 160GB with 8MB cache model is added to the list.

The new Barracuda ES packs the high capacity, high reliability, and Enterprise multi-drive features demanded by capacity-intensive 24/7 applications, making it ideal for low cost-per-GB business storage solutions. With SATA capacities up to a massive 750GBs, the Barracuda ES powers RAID systems and other multi-drive solutions and can support 50% more capacity within the same system form factor, all while maximizing performance and availability.

Seagates second-generation 2.5-inch enterprise class disc drive, the Savvio 10K.2, delivers high I/O transaction performance with world-record 1.6 million hour MTBF reliability and up to 146GB capacity. With ultra-low power consumption that has dropped an average of 15% over its prior generation, and a size that is 70% smaller than conventional 3.5-inch drives, the Savvio 10K.2 makes possible the integration of more drives into smaller chassis sizes to enable storage systems to run cooler, faster, and more reliably than ever.

[Via Seagate-Asia]

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