Toshiba selects Seagate CE hard drives for video recorder

Our Corporate Bureau
03 November 2003

Seagate''s hard drive provides the RD-XS31 with up to 104 hours of recording time for TV shows. It also provides the cache storage that allows programmes to be archived to DVD-RAM, DVD-RW and DVD-R formats.

"Leveraging Seagate''s proven storage technology, the innovative RD-XS31 from Toshiba continues to redefine the world of home entertainment," says Hiroyuki Tokoro, technology executive, Digital Media Network of Toshiba. "Seagate has worked closely with Toshiba''s product design team to deliver top dubbing performance for the highest quality recording — and meeting Toshiba''s requirements of high throughput for maximum-speed HDD-to-DVD dubbing. We continue to look to Seagate disc drive technology leadership in consumer electronics to help bring our storage-driven products to a new level."

"Toshiba''s new product is the result of a successful technology and engineering partnership between Seagate and Toshiba," says Tom Kobayashi, Seagate vice-president and regional director, Japan sales and representative director, Nippon Seagate. "We are excited about the direction Toshiba is pursuing in the convergence of digital entertainment content, taking better advantage of hard drives to help consumers control their entertainment experience. Toshiba''s endorsement of our best-in-class disc drives highlights Seagate''s clear strengths in developing hard drive technology for consumer electronics and in helping CE manufacturers design and optimise their storage-driven products."

Seagate CE hard drives deliver the features CE manufacturers ask for — quiet acoustics, efficient power use, high reliability and top streaming performance. With easy-to-use stream management commands, Seagate''s CE drives are optimised for the sequential work of streaming continuous A/V files. Seagate CE drives'' power management technology uses less peak power at start-up than other drives in their class, and Seagate drives are the world''s quietest, for pure audio enjoyment with virtually no discernible operating sound.

Seagate is the only hard drive company to provide consumer electronics manufacturers with a comprehensive alliance — products, technology and services. Seagate design service centres (DSC) continue the company''s leadership in helping CE manufacturers optimise their mechanical, electronic, and software environments to take better advantage of the hard drive. DSC services increase reliability, speed time-to-market, and decrease development costs.

Seagate''s specialised CE hard drives and unique CE services provide storage for the new world of digital entertainment, enabling personal video recorders (PVR), video game consoles, audio jukeboxes, home media centres and networked entertainment systems.