Seagate Technology has announced the shipment of its Lyrion
1.8-inch hard drive to customers worldwide. Lyrion provides a breakthrough in
capacity with the industry's first single platter 60GB 1.8-inch hard drive,
enabled by perpendicular recording technology, with only 5mm thickness. With a
single platter 60GB hard drive, portable devices will be able to carry up to 80
movies, up to 200 hours of music videos, up to 20 hours of standard definition
video or up to 12 hours of high-definition video. Lyrion will also be available
in a 30GB configuration.
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Lyrion hard drive |
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Features
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Free fall protection—
The Lyrion drive is compatible with free fall sensors on portable and
handheld devices. When a system detects that it is in a free fall, Lyrion
will respond to commands from the host sensor and take steps to protect
itself, such as powering down the motor and parking the read-write heads
away from the platter's surface -
Power management—
Lyrion leads the 1.8-inch hard drive category in power efficiency, resulting
in longer device battery life -
Run-on technology—The
drive senses and calculates motion and vibration, automatically adjusting
its performance to deliver skip-free music and video -
Adapt to eExtreme
temperature conditions— The Lyrion drive is capable of
operation from 0 to 60 degrees celsius, the broadest temperature range in
its class. Additionally, it can measure and respond to varying humidity and
altitude conditions.
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