Seagate has announced the launch of two purpose-built hard drives for Digital Video Recorders, the Pipeline HD Mini and Pipeline HD.2. The Pipeline HD Mini hard drive is the worlds first 2.5-inch drive engineered specifically for use in digital video recorders (DVRs).
With 160GB and 250GB capacities now available, DVR manufacturers can benefit from the lower-power performance and slim form factor of these new, smaller hard drives without sacrificing capacity for their content-hungry customers. The Pipeline HD.2 is Seagates second generation of the Pipeline HD drive built in a 3.5-inch form factor.
These new Pipeline HD.2 hard drives, available in 250GB, 500GB and 1TB capacities, give home entertainment device manufacturers one and two disk, cost-optimized solutions for todays high definition video recording applications.
Pipeline HD series hard drives achieve superior performance and operation on the three key areas of importance to manufacturers acoustics, energy efficiency and high reliability. The Pipeline HD.2 and the Pipeline HD Mini hard drives both feature enhanced acoustics for near silent operation, coupled with 24/7 operation capabilities in extended temperature ranges common to consumer electronics applications.
Brian Dexheimer, president of Seagates Consumer Solutions Division, stated, "We now live in a media landscape where all information and entertainment, be it video, photos, music or other files, are enabled by digital storage. When it comes to HD video, there are demands placed on storage that are specific to the CE industry, and Seagates latest line of Pipeline HD hard drives is built to meet and exceed these rigorous demands. Additionally, with the imminent, FCC-mandated transition to digital broadcast coming in February 2009, the demand for HD video storage in the home will grow to new heights, and Seagate is ready."
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