• Seagate Video 2.5 HDD Review | Specifications

New Seagate Video 2.5 HDD Delivers Industry Leading Reliability And Energy Efficiency

Dec 13, 2012

CUPERTINO, Calif -- Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX), today announced the Seagate Video 2.5 HDD, a 2.5-inch drive specifically engineered for use in 24/7 video applications like digital video recorders (DVRs), set-top boxes (STBs), and surveillance applications.

The Video 2.5 HDD delivers superior performance and operation in three key areas of importance to manufacturers – high reliability, acoustics, and energy efficiency. Featuring best in class reliability, the drive has an annual failure rate of approximately 0.55, based on current configurations, enabling it to keep product in the field longer while reducing the cost of field deployment and maintaining customer retention. It also boasts 24/7 operation capabilities in extended temperature ranges and enhanced acoustics for near silent operation — features crucial for consumer electronics and video applications.

The Video 2.5 HDD provides home entertainment manufacturers one and two disk, cost-optimized solutions for today’s high-definition (HD) video recording applications. Featuring capacities up to 500 GB, manufacturers can benefit from its lower-power performance and slim form factor without sacrificing the streaming capabilities or reliability of Seagate’s 3.5-inch video drive. Its low power consumption, 24x7 operation, and support of up to 12 streams of simultaneous HD content also make it ideal for surveillance DVR applications.

“We pioneered the HDD video market more than a decade ago and as such are leveraging our vast knowledge of this technology to bring consumers the most reliable video drive in the world,” said Scott Horn, Seagate vice president of Marketing. “The CE industry has extremely specific criteria and needs when it comes to storage and the Video 2.5 HDD is built to meet and exceed their rigorous demands.”
The living-room environment requires superior acoustic management to limit audible distractions during operation of DVRs and STBs and the Video 2.5 HDD enables designers to build the quietest home entertainment systems possible. Operating below the range of audible sound for the human ear at just 22db, the drive provides optimized acoustics for home entertainment components.

Maintaining Seagate’s goal of delivering sustainable products, the drive reduces packaging materials by 53 percent and overall freight up to 30 percent, over previous 3.5-inch offerings, by efficiently packing and shipping more units with fewer materials than larger drives. It also contributes to sustainable energy initiatives by achieving a 55 percent improvement in power savings over comparable 3.5-inch offerings, enabling system integrators to meet aggressive new energy requirements. The Seagate Video 2.5 HDD is built without the use of harmful chemicals like the fire retardant bromide and is PVC free.

Cool, quiet, low power video performance

Stream, record and playback your customer’s favorite video content with the unparalleled reliability and performance of Seagate® Video 2.5 HDD.

• Seagate expands video hard drive offerings to a 2.5” platform
• Purpose-built 2.5” video drives designed specifically for for STB and DVR manufacturers to support 24x7 applications
• Choose the drive with optimized streaming, recording and playback of your favorite video content
• Reliability and performance equal to Seagate Video 3.5 HDDs
• Industry leading AFR of 0.55%

Purpose-built video performance you can count on

Streaming, recording and playing back your favorite content whenever you want, you can rely on Seagate® Video 2.5 HDDs to keep your content safe until you need it. Our purpose-built Video 2.5 HDDs feature:

• Support for up to 12 simultaneous HD streams
• Video playback optimized with Command Completion Time (CCT) to ensure smooth data delivery
• 500GB supports up to 38 hours of your favorite movies and TV shows, or 100,000 photos or 125,000 songs!
• Near silent acoustics
• Low power consumption helps reduce heat emissions and qualify video solutions for Energy Star standards
• Designed and tested to work in higher temperature environments (like entertainment centers) for improved reliability
• Years of experience with custom built video drives brings you the industry’s best reliability of 0.55% AFR

Reliable 24x7 video storage

Your best movies, TV shows and media favorites are all stored on your DVR or media center – trust Seagate to protect them.
While Video 2.5 HDDs are hard at work storing your favorite TV shows and movies, your content will be kept safe, protected by an AFR of 0.55%. Spend more time living with your favorite content at your fingertips.
We’ve mastered a combination of low power consumption and heat emissions along with 24x7 operation to give you industry- leading reliability of 0.55% AFR required for video needs

Low power video HDD

Demands for low energy consumption are raising the bar for set- top box and DVR manufacturers, and Seagate helps customers meet new Energy Star requirements.
Cut your power consumption up to 55% by choosing Seagate Video 2.5 HDDs over competing 3.5-inch video offerings.

Specifications

Capacity	500GB	320GB	250GB
Form Factor	2.5"	2.5"	2.5"
Interface Options	SATA 3Gb/s	SATA 3Gb/s	SATA 3Gb/s
Performance
Cache (MB)	16	16	16
Transfer Rate, Max Ext (MB/s)	300	300	300
Sustained Data Rate OD	100	100	100
Average Latency (ms)	5.6	5.6	5.6
Reliability/Data Integrity
Nonrecoverable Read Errors per Bits Read	1 in 1014	1 in 1014	1 in 1014
Annualized Failure Rate (AFR)	0.55%	0.55%	0.55%
Power Management
Seek, Typical Operating (W)	1.5	1.5	1.5
Idle, Typical Operating (W)	0.66	0.66	0.66
Environmental
Temperature
Operating	0° to 60°C	0° to 60°C	0° to 60°C
Non-operating	-40° to 70°C	-40° to 70°C	-40° to 70°C
Shock
Operating: Gs (ms)	400 (2ms)	400 (2ms)	400 (2ms)
Non-operating: Gs (ms)	1000 (1ms)	1000 (1ms)	1000 (1ms)
Acoustics (bels - sound power)
Idle	2.2	2.2	2.2
Operating	2.4	2.4	2.4
Physical
Height (in/mm) (maximum)	0.276/7.0	0.276/7.0	0.276/7.0
Width (in/mm) (maximum)	2.76/70.10	2.76/70.10	2.76/70.10
Length (in/mm) (maximum)	3.959/100.55	3.959/100.55	3.959/100.55
Weight (lb/g)	0.209/95	0.209/95	0.209/95

Model Number	Capacity	Interface	Cache (MB)	Hours of Video Supported
ST500VT000	500GB	SATA 3Gb/s	16MB	38
ST320VT000	320GB	SATA 3Gb/s	16MB	24
ST250VT000	250GB	SATA 3Gb/s	16MB	19

The Seagate Video 2.5 HDD product manual can be obtained at http://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/product-content/video-2-5-hdd/en-us/docs/100685366e.pdf


Data taken from http://www.seagate.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/seagate-video-2.5-hdd-pr-master, http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/consumer-electronics/video-2-5-hdd/ (accessed on Dec 30, 2012)

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Tips How to Transfer or Move the Video to Mobile Phone

Nowadays, videos is easy to get, either from the result of browsing the web or directly downloaded from video providers like YouTube. And not be as familiar as the downloaded video we move into the mobile phone or cell phone in order to facilitate us in playing or just want to save it. But it is not impossible that we download the video file can not be played on mobile phones, because the ability of mobile phones is much lower compared with the computer in terms of player that is provided. Therefore, before we move or transfer video to mobile phones is useful to do some adjustments, so the video can be played on mobile phones. In this article, I will give some Tips How to Transfer or Move the Video to Mobile Phone.

To be enjoyed via mobile phone, you must convert the video, according to the spec videos that can be played on your mobile phone. Resolution, as well as video formats such as 3GP, MP4, or the other.

Video 3GP produce a more opaque picture and sound bad but a smaller size so that more memory efficient. MP4 Video produces images that are clearer and louder sound but the video format MP4 memory tends to be more wasteful than 3GP.

In any video converter software, you will find some of the following basic settings:

Resolution

Common Resolution mobile video is 176 × 144, 3GP or MP4 format. If the small screen then just 128 × 96. mobile phone screen is larger then a good resolution is 320 × 240. Well, if we set the resolution exceeds the maximum resolution that can be supported by mobile phone then it will fail to play the video or just sound it out.

Bit Rate

This is what determines the quality of the video phone, the smaller the value the more the quality is bad. Generally, the video bit rate in the HP range 56-80kbps for a resolution of 128 × 96, 80-160kbps to 176 × 144, and 160-512kbps for a resolution of 320 × 240.

Just set the bit rate value in accordance with the above. The value is too high bit rate besides consuming a lot of memory, can also occur when the possibility of playing video jams.

Frame Rate

Frame Rate for video mobile phones ranges from 7-25 fps. The greater the frame rate, the more subtle movements of objects in the video. It is recommended to use 20 fps just remember some phone models only support a maximum of 20fps. If you are unsure, set auto is the best way.

Audio Settings

For 3GP, AMR typically uses audio bitrate with some setting. 12.2 kbps is the highest quality setting so that the voice on the video was clear.

For use the MP4 AAC audio. AAC is much better quality than AMR. Settings bitrate of 56 kbps and 44100 Hz sample rate can produce a loud sound and good.

Maybe thats just the basic information you need to know about transferring or moving video to mobile phones. Try to experiment with various settings and compare the quality. From there you can decide what is appropriate video quality and can be played properly on your mobile phone.

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