Seagate unveils 10 new HDDs

Seagate has introduced 10 new hard disc drives for consumer elec-tronics,
enterprise, desktop and mobile computing mar-kets. Seagate's offering for the
consumer electronics industry includes EE25 Series, which can operate in extreme
environmental resistance-in temperatures from-30 to 85 degrees C and in
high-humidity and high-altitude environments. The company also introduced the
LD25 Series, a 2.5-inch hard drive designed for the latest game consoles, and
smaller, cooler-running and more cost-effective small footprint PCs and home
entertainment devices.

Seagate has also delivered the DB35 Series, a half-tera-byte DVR enabling
storage for home media centers and HDTV.

To fulfill the storage needs for digital photo-graphy, video and handheld
devices, Seagate has intro-duced the eight GB Com-pactFlash Photo Hard Drive in
a tiny one-inch size for digital cameras. In the mobile/notebook drives segment,
the company has introduced Momentus 5400.3, a 2.5-inch hard drive based on
Perpen-dicular Recording.

In the desktop PC drives segment, the company has introduced the New
Barracuda 7200.9-combining three GB/s SATA-interface through-put-double that
of first-generation SATA-with 500GB of capacity, 16 Mbytes of cache and Native
Command Queuing (NCQ).

Seagate will also int-roduce the new FireWire 800 (IEEE 1394b) interface for
the external hard drive capable of supporting data rates up to 800Mbps. The
company would announce the prices as and when the products become available in
the market.

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