BANGALORE: Seagate Technology, has announced that its U Series disc
will be storage device in Zinwell's digital video recorder (DVR), a promise to
provide disk drive solutions for consumer solutions.
Seagate offers a variety of testing, integration and mechanical analysis
services to assist in qualifying drive-capable consumer electronics (CE)
devices. These services, part of the company's CETEC (Consumer Electronics
Testing & Engineering Center) are available to key OEM customers such as
Zinwell as part of Seagate's partnership qualification business model.
"Leveraging its core disc drive technology for the home CE market,
Seagate has scored yet another CE win with Zinwell," said Seagate senior
vice president of worldwide sales and marketing Joel Stead. "With the
end-to-end relationships nurtured through its unique CETEC processes and
services, Seagate maintains its advantage over other disc drive makers as the
premium provider of added value services for CE customers."
"We are pleased to endorse Seagate's high-quality hard disc drives for
use in our DVRs," said Zinwell chairman Jack Huang. "Seagate's
engineering team has worked closely with our engineers to test and develop our
consumer products. Leveraging Seagate's disc drive technology with the unique
architecture of our products, we are delivering a new dimension to home
entertainment."
Zinwell's DVR allows you to capture television shows on a hard drive and
watch them whenever you want. It can be a personal assistant to you when it
comes to changing channels or recording your favorite programs. Other features
include the ability to pause, forward, rewind and instantly replay television
shows as they are broadcast.
The U Series disc drive family is designed specifically for use in consumer
electronics, Internet appliances, volume PCs and terminal-based environments.
Featuring its exclusive "sound barrier technology" (SBT), Seagate's U
Series is among the world's quietest hard drives for mainstream desktop
computers and Personal Video Recorders. The U Series is available in a unique
consumer electronics configuration, the U Series AV, optimized for superior A/V
streaming, quiet data seeks and reduced power use. The U Series features a
5,400-rpm spindle speed for an internal transfer rate exceeding 41 Mbytes per
second and the Ultra ATA/100 interface. The U Series incorporates Seagate's
3D-defense system, including SeaTools, SeaShell, SeaShield and G-Force
protection.