Seagate Ships Lyrion, The Industry’s Most Intelligent And Evolved 1.8-Inch Hard Drive Enabling Best-In-Class Portable Devices

Seagate Ships Lyrion, The Industry’s Most Intelligent And Evolved 1.8-Inch Hard Drive Enabling Best-In-Class Portable Devices

Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), the world’s number one hard drive maker, announced today that it is starting shipment of its Lyrion hard drive – the industry’s most intelligent and evolved 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 5-mm of 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.

As consumers rely more and more on their consumer electronic devices as they move through their day, whether it be a personal media player, portable navigation system, digital video camera or portable storage devices, it becomes more important for these devices to feature highly reliable hard drives with features designed specifically for the portable handheld market. Lyrion is the ideal hard drive for these market segments, with the best combination of portability, reliability and capacity. In addition, the Lyrion hard drive has advanced capabilities to self-adjust its operation based on its environment, making it the ideal solution for handheld devices.

“The portable video market is booming and is currently the main driver for consumer handheld devices, similar to the digital audio market a few years ago,” said Brian Dexheimer, Seagate chief sales and marketing officer. “Seagate has decades of experience customizing hard drive technology for specific applications and the Lyrion hard drive combines the best features for portable devices.” According to Frost & Sullivan, by 2010, the amount of mobile video download subscribers will jump to nearly five million as compared to roughly 250,000 mobile video download subscribers in 2006.

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