Seagate Unveils 750GB Hard Drive Designed Specifically for the Digital Video Security Market

Seagate Unveils 750GB Hard Drive Designed Specifically for the Digital Video Security Market

Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), the world’s leading manufacturer of hard disc drives, today announced the SV35.2 Series hard drive, specifically designed for optimal performance in the commercial video security market. The SV35.2 Series adds 320GB and 750GB of storage using perpendicular recording to its line-up of 160GB, 250GB and 500GB hard drives – all of which will be transitioned to equal capacity perpendicular recording SV35.2 models. The Seagate SV35.2 Series now enables months of high quality continuous video recording¹.

Concerns about terrorism and crime across countries have forced citizens and governments around the world to make public safety and security a top priority and invest in it accordingly. Another major market are retail business establishments which are increasingly relying on security systems to help them manage their businesses. Video security and surveillance technology is in a rapid shift from legacy tape based systems to digital systems employing hard drive storage. IMS Research indicates the worldwide estimate for video surveillance equipment was 4.2B in 2004 with a CAGR of 14% by 2009².

Digital video security systems now enable sophisticated software capabilities to automatically preview and flag security events in seconds, where manually reviewed images would have taken days or even months to locate similar information. High resolution image capture is moving the quality of stored video from grainy and marginally useful to crisp and incredibly detailed images used to capture criminals, save lives and improve business practices in a wide variety of industries. At the heart of these capabilities are massive and reliable hard drives, enabling the storage of incredible amounts of digital video data while also providing unprecedented fast access and review of recorded video not possible on legacy tape based systems.

Seagate remains the only hard drive manufacturer dedicated to the security and surveillance market with a hard drive built to specifically withstand the surveillance digital video recorder (SDVR) environment. Seagate’s SV35.2 Series hard drives leveraging its perpendicular recording technology offer increased capacity, while continuing to improve performance, power management and reliability in SDVRs. And as a distinct product family, the SV35.2 Series is poised to develop new features and functionality independent of other market segments, increasing its capabilities in meeting the unique needs of video security and surveillance customers in the future. The SV35.2 Series hard drives have improved video recording performance characteristics over traditional desktop drives while also offering increased reliability features required in digital video surveillance applications.

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