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Seagate Video 2 5 HDD Review Specifications

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Seagate Video 2.5 HDD Review | Specifications

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

Dec 13, 2012

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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%

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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)

The Amazon Kindle Fire

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The Amazon Kindle Fire has been officially announced at an event in New York after months of speculation.
Its a big brother to the Amazon Kindle that we know and love and is a direct competitor to BlackBerrys PlayBook and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7. As well as that larger iPad 2 thing, of course.
As youll read, its not got an incredible feature set, but its price point - see below - sees it pitched above Amazons existing newly redesigned Kindle and the new Kindle Touch yet under Android 3.0 tablets and the iPad 2.
Theres also Amazon Silk - a radical new cloud accelerated browser. Read on for everything we know about the new Kindle Fire.

Amazon Kindle Fire price

The Kindle Fire will sell for $199 in the US, but weve no confirmation on Kindle Fire UK price.

Amazon Kindle Fire release date

The Kindle Fire release date is 15 November in the US, but weve no word on an Amazon UK Kindle Fire release date as yet. You can pre-order today in the US.

Amazon Kindle Fire display

The Kindle Fire will have a 7-inch IPS LCD gorilla glass display with 16 million colours. It was heavily rumoured that the Kindle Fire would be a 10-inch tab, but dont write this off for a 2012 launch.
Its 30 times tougher then plastic, while theres 169 pixels per inch (ppi) - thats more than the 132ppi iPad 2 display.

Amazon Kindle Fire processor

The processor inside the Kindle Fire appears to be a Texas Instruments ARM-based dual-core OMAP CPU, though this has not been confirmed by Amazon.

Amazon Kindle Fire interface

The new Kindle tablet will run a special Amazon version of Googles Android OS - but its not Honeycomb 3.0 its based upon, but an early version of Android 2.x. Theres multitasking as youd expect from Android.
The UI eschews Android Market in favour of an Amazon-centered experience around Amazon Cloud Player and Cloud Drive.
The top of the display shows your name, while theres a search bar and buttons for newsstand, music videos books, documents, apps and web browser. Below the nav theres a "shelf" for your "most read" videos, books and magazines - its all in a Cover Flow-style interface.
Youll be able to browse full colour magazines on the device.

Amazon Kindle Fire apps

The browser is called Amazon Silk - it uses Amazons EC2 computer cluster. Presumably this means Amazon will employ huge processing power (compression) to reduce bandwidth demand on the device and put more processing in the cloud. A bit like Operas compression tech.
Incredibly, Silk learns your browsing patterns and pre-loads the pages you read the most.
There is a tablet-optimised shopping app on board - this is said to comprise simplified and streamlined pages, so it is easier to buy stuff on than the actual Amazon website.
There will be a number of apps accessible on the device, including Pandora (US), Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix (US).

Amazon Kindle Fire connectivity and storage

The new Kindle Fire will have Wi-Fi, but sadly no 3G. Theres also no camera or microphone. Surely Amazon will launch a bigger, better model with these enhancements after Christmas.
Theres only 8GB of storage on the device. so there will be a limit to how much content you can store.
There are no physical controls on the front of the device - everything is touch-based. Amazon has also ensured the Kindle Fire features "no cable" synchronisation - as Apple is planning for iOS 5.

Amazon Kindle Fire Whispersync

Theres full integration with Amazons Whispersync tech. As you read a book on any Kindle device or app, your current place is synchronised across all your devices. The same will happen with movies and TV shows now too.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said at the launch: "Customers love Whispersync -- so we thought you know what people would really like? What if Whispersync also worked with movies and TV shows? Well it does.
"When you get home, switch to your big screen TV. Your movie will be right where you left it.

Amazon Kindle Fire weight

The weight of the Kindle Fire is 14.6 oz - 413g. Amazon says that Kindle Fire is "small and light enough to hold in just one hand and carry everywhere you go".

Amazon Kindle Fire music, video and books

The Kindle Fire can access all the content offered by Amazon (so that includes MP3 and video streaming, though not in the UK unless its announced).
Amazon has said the Kindle Fire will have access to 100,000 movies and TV shows, 17 million songs, Kindle books and "hundreds" of magazines and newspapers.
Amazon Prime Members enjoy instant, unlimited, commercial-free streaming of over 11,000 movies and TV shows at no additional cost. Kindle Fire comes with one free month of Amazon Prime.
There will also be free Amazon Cloud Storage. So that means youll be able to start a movie on Kindle Fire and transfer it to your TV.
Theres also over 100 exclusive graphic novels, including Watchmen, the bestselling - and considered by many to be the greatest - graphic novel of all time, which has never before been available in digital format, as well as Batman: Arkham City, Superman: Earth OneGreen Lantern: Secret Origin and 96 others from DC Entertainment.

Amazon Kindle Fire apps

Theres also access to the most popular Android apps and games via the Amazon Android Appstore. That includes apps such as Angry Birds, Plants vs. Zombies, Cut the Rope and more. All apps are Amazon-tested on Kindle Fire.

Amazon Kindle Fire and Amazon Prime

The Kindle Fire will also come complete with a months trial of Amazon Prime.
Well bring you a Kindle Fire review as soon as we get our hands on one.

Restore Drivers And Applications Using Acer eRecovery management

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many ways to improve a damaged laptop system, if you acer laptop user, maybe you can do with easy of recovery using Acer eRecovery management software, with this software you can easily backup and restore software and drivers on your laptop Acer. The following how to restore the system settings and restore the drivers with Acer eRecovery managment software

Click Start, and then All Programs
Click Acer, and then Acer eRecovery Management
You may be prompted to enter or create a password. This password will be required to use eRecovery in the future.
In the next window on the left toolbar, select Restore.
Choose Reinstall Drivers or Applications
Choose Contents
Choose the driver or application you wish to install
On the right, click the Install link and follow the prompts.
The computer may restart when installation is complete. If it does not restart, manually shutdown and restart the computer.

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A Comparison Review of Alienware M11x VS Dell Studio XPS 14

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Although manufactured by the same producer, Dell Studio XPS 14 versus Alienware M11X can provide different satisfaction for the consumer. One type of laptop may fulfill particular standards needed by the user while other one does not. Identifying how a laptop may fulfill the user is seen from how laptop meets their need, the way the user will mainly use the laptop. Individuals will use a laptop in a range of between performing work and enjoying yourself.

Dell Alienware M11x Picture

When compare and contrast Alienwate M11x and STudio XPS 14, often we experienced with many options by which every one of them has nearly the same level of quality and specs. If we are actually in times similar to this we should be really smart and careful in making a choice.

Dell Studio XPS 14 Indea Picture

Selecting a wrong one can lead to failure. For instance, there are two Dell items, M11X and XPS 14. We may like the M11X for its better chipset processor Intel Q557 and has an extended battery lifetime.

Dell Alienware M11x India Picture

Even so, the XPS 14 isnt a worse laptop compared to the M11X. Its 2 fresh functions now, the High Defintion camera and also the three dimentional output to television with HDMI 1.4. Placing an i7 Quad Core or even a 820 i7 onto it can give no problem. Furthermore GPU efficiency, the 335M GT and 435M Nvidia would not be much difference. Again, for choosing a laptop, we need to think about whatever we actually need, then we choose whatever meets our use of laptop like gaming, heavy work or entertainment.

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NVIDIA Release 270 51 Beta Drivers

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The NVIDIA Release 270.51 Beta Drivers was announced on the 30th March 2011. It includes great boost in performance and features of graphics card.

Well, it is always good to stay updated with the latest and best drivers so that you can use your graphics card to the max.

Find all the NVIDIA Release 270.51 Beta Drivers features here

It is highly recommended that you check which drivers work for your graphics card to prevent problems.

Check the latest NVIDIA driver for your graphics card and download it here

ASUS VivoTab™ Smart Tablet Intel� Atom™ Processor

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ASUS VivoTab™ Smart Tablet | Intel® Atom™ Processor

Affordably priced 10.1-inch tablet with TranSleeve Keyboard provides full compatibility with existing Windows software and hardware

2012/12/27

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ASUS today launched the VivoTab™ Smart tablet with 10.1-inch HD display and full Windows 8 experience, all at an affordable price. VivoTab™ Smart is perfect for work and play, at home or on the move. Thin and light, VivoTab™ Smart features an Intel® Atom™ dual-core processor for full compatibility with new and existing Windows 8 software, and an optional TranSleeve Keyboard that magnetically combines screen protection with a wireless keyboard for enhanced productivity.

Perfect for productivity, ideal for entertainment

Just 9.7mm thin and 580g light, ASUS VivoTab™ Smart has a 10.1-inch LED-backlit display with a crisp 1366 x 768 HD resolution. IPS display technology delivers 178-degree wide viewing angles and ensures clear and bright images, even when seen from the side. VivoTab™ Smart also features 5-point multi-touch for fluid fingertip control with Windows 8. The TranSleeve Keyboard is an innovative accessory that is a cover, keyboard, and stand all rolled into one. It not only aids in the typing experience, but protects the tablet as well.

With its Intel® Atom™ Z2760 dual-core processor, VivoTab™ Smart delivers fast and responsive performance, while still providing up to 9.5 hours battery life on a single charge. VivoTab™ Smart gives complete peace of mind to users too, thanks to complete compatibility with both Windows 8 Store and Desktop apps, along with plug and play support for a wide range of existing peripherals.

ASUS VivoTab™ Smart features high-quality cameras front and rear. The 8-megapixel rear camera with auto-focus, five-element lens and 1080p Full HD video recording captures precious moments with crystal clarity, while the front 2-megapixel camera is perfect for face-to-face video chat. VivoTab™ Smart also features renowned ASUS SonicMaster audio technology for incredible sound quality with all kinds of listening material from its built-in stereo speakers.

Data taken from http://www.asus.com/News/6len5EjIDAbbaBg0/ (accessed on Dec 29, 2012)