NEW DELHI, India —15 December 2005— Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), the world’s leading supplier of Consumer Electronics hard disc drives, today announced the first practical implementation of Cybercapture™ technology. Sony Corporation has employed this technology in its new Compactvault™ removable hard disc media drive that uses Seagate’s CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive, following a joint implementation effort between the two companies.
Hard disc drives with Cybercapture™ technology maximize hard disc performance, enabling faster shooting and high definition video capture. By moving control of the file system from the consumer electronics device onto the hard disc drive itself, Cybercapture technology will allow an even higher recording rate of still pictures in multi-shot mode as well as higher quality recording of moving pictures, on a drive running in AV mode.
Seagate is looking ahead to additional future benefits with this technology. Further expanding its leadership into new consumer electronics applications, Seagate teamed its engineering expertise with Sony’s bold vision to help enable an entirely new way to harness the power of miniature hard drives. Hardware supporting Cybercapture technology is being developed for future launch, and Seagate may bring Cybercapture technology to market in the future with new Seagate branded products.
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, and Consumer Electronics applications. Seagate’s business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, and to be the low cost producer in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world’s growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at www.seagate.com.
Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When referring to hard drive capacity one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one terabyte, or TB, refers to one trillion bytes. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting.
Cybercapture™ and Compactvault is a trademark of Sony Corporation.
