Seagate Targets Digital Video Surveillance Systems with Next-Gen Hard Drives

Posted 04/08/2009 at 7:07am | by Paul Lilly

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Seagate this week unveiled a new line of hard drives that it says are "the ideal solution for the demands of the growing video surveillance market." The SV35.5 series, as it's been dubbed, include a number of features that make it suitable for video surveillance environments, including a "performance-tuned" 140MB/s sustained data rate, ATA-7 streaming commands, enhanced caching capabilities, built-in error recovery for 24/7 streaming, thermal monitoring and reporting, low noise operation, and more.

"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™ hard drive is a prime example of Seagate delivering a feature-rich solution that customers have requested."

The SV35.5 series takes advantage of perpendicular recording and comes in capacities of up to 1TB. Seagate says its new drives consume anywhere between 5W and 7W while idle, depending on the specific hard drive.

No word yet on price, although Seagate says the SV35.5 is currently shipping to distributors worldwide.

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