Seagate Debuts 500GB HDD Optimized for Video

Seagate introduced a new 500GB hard drive for DVR and home entertainment systems. It will provide up to 85 hours of High-Definition TV recording, 500 hours of standard TV recording, and up to 10 simultaneous TV streams. Seagate said its DynaPlay Technology fine-tunes the drive's 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 drive was one of ten new products introduced by Seagate for applications such as portal media players, game consoles, digital cameras, notebooks, automobile-based information systems, etc.
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