Seagate
introduced its Seagate SV35.5 Series hard drives, designed for
optimal performance in digital video surveillance systems. The Seagate SV35.5
hard drive is built for rigorous 24×7 use, and combines best-in-class
reliability, performance, capacity, acoustics and power consumption along with
features that make SDVR integration easy, making it the ideal solution for the
demands of the growing video surveillance market.

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The Seagate SV35.5 hard drive provides a number of key advantages for
video surveillance environments over standard hard drives including:
performance-tuned 140 MB/s sustained sequential data rates and ATA-7 streaming
commands for high-speed transfers, enhanced caching capabilities and built-in
error recovery for non-stop streaming, thermal monitoring and reporting,
unique user-selectable partitioning, low spin-up power, and best-in-class
acoustics for extremely quiet operation.

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With disk capacities from 250GB to 1TB, the Seagate SV35.5 hard drive
offers flexible DVR design capabilities as a video surveillance DVR, network
DVR, or for direct and network-attached JBOD video surveillance storage.

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“The hardware requirements for the surveillance market are especially
critical and dictate the use of HDDs that are made specifically for the needs
of video system manufacturers and integrators,” said Carla Kennedy, senior
vice president of Seagate’s Enterprise Product Line Management group. “With
its optimized performance and capacity that can store over one full month of
high-resolution video, the Seagate SV35.5 Series(TM) hard drive is a prime
example of Seagate delivering a feature-rich solution that customers have
requested.”

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Seagate SV35.5 Hard Drive for Surveillance OEMs and System Builders

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The Seagate SV35.5 hard drive answers the ever-increasing need for more
storage capacity at best-in-class power consumption and acoustics for digital
video recording OEMs and system builders. Utilizing perpendicular recording
technology, it offers capacities up to 1TB while providing optimum performance
while drawing minimal power from system resources. With its powerful
surveillance features and backed by the Seagate 5 year limited warranty, the
Seagate SV35.5 drives enable OEM and system builders to set themselves apart
from the competition by delivering lower operational costs with best-in-class
reliability.

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“While we continue to use the Barracuda ES series for our enterprise
class RAID solutions, the Seagate SV35 series is a perfect solution for our
very successful series of non-RAID DVRs,” said Pelco Product Marketing Manager
Yvonne Schwemmer. “The fact that Seagate has engineered these drives for the
video surveillance market gives us increased confidence in the products we
deliver to a demanding marketplace.”

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Specifications

— Capacities: 250GB, 500GB, 1TB

— Spin speeds: 7200-RPM

— Interfaces: 3Gbps SATA

— Video Streaming: 47 Simultaneous FULL D1 (704X576) Video Streams
Support

— Performance: 140 MB/s sustained sequential data rates

— Acoustics: Typical Idle (bels) 2.3 for 250GB/2.5 for 500GB/2.5 for 1TB

— Shock, Operating: 70 (2ms Gs), Non-operating: 350 for 250GB/300 for
500GB/ 300 for 1TB (2m Gs)

— Cache: SATA: 8MB for 250GB/16MB for 500GB/32MB for 1TB

— Power Usage: Performance Idle: 5 Watts for 250GB/7 Watts for 500GB/7
Watts for 1TB

— Warranty: Limited 5 year