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Briefs
Seagate’s new kids on the block
 Seagate
has announced a range of products targeted at OEMs in the consumer electronics,
enterprise, desktop and mobile computing segments. “Our storage innovations
are driving new capabilities into applications of all kinds, from the home to
the office to the road and beyond,” says Sharad Srivastava, Country Manager
for Seagate in India.
The consumer electronics offerings include the EE25 Series, LD25 Series, the
DB35 Series, the 8 GB CompactFlash photo hard drive and the ST1 Series.
 Mobile
computing
- ST1 Series: A hard drive designed for use in handheld
and CompactFlash applications. It will let users store libraries of music
of up to 200 hours (4,000 songs), and video and digital photos. This hard
drive is designed for a high-vibration environment such as jogging. The ST1
Series supports low-power modes with a drive’s time-to-ready of 1.2 seconds.
It is shipping limited quantities of the 8 GB ST1 and LD25 series to select
OEMs.
- EE25 Series: Hard drives specifically for use in
cars. The company says that this is the world’s first hard drive with
extreme temperature resistance. It can operate in temperatures ranging from
minus 30 to 85 degrees centigrade, in high humidity and at high altitudes.
The drive is targeted at auto makers and system manufacturers to create DVD-free
navigation systems and car entertainment services.
 The
notebook segment is being targeted by Seagate with two new drives.
Momentus 5400.3: A 2.5-inch notebook drive which utilises
perpendicular recording. Seagate’s new 160 GB disc drive combines 5,400
rpm performance with 25 percent more capacity than the largest notebook drive
currently available, according to the company.
Momentus FDE: This family of hard drives has hardware-based
full disk encryption technology, providing protection against unauthorised access
to data on stolen or retired notebook PCs. FDE technology requires a user key
to encrypt all data, and goes beyond selected files or partitions on the drive.
 Desktop
PC drives
The Barracuda 7200.9: Combining 3 Gbps SATA-interface throughput with 500 GB
of capacity, 16 MB of cache and Native Command Queuing. The new flagship drive
in the Barracuda family is aimed at increasing productivity in a desktop PC
hard drive.
External Drives
The external drives provide new interfaces and capacities.
- The Seagate external hard drive: An external drive
with 500 GB, the new FireWire 800 (IEEE 1394b) interface is capable of supporting
data rates of up to 800 Mbps.
- The Seagate portable external hard drive : This
comes with a 120 GB capacity. In addition, this drive offers a FireWire (IEEE
1394a) option for on-the-go storage.
Both the Barracuda 7200.9 and the 120 GB portable external hard drive will be
shipped in the third quarter of this year.
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