Seagate launches 10 new products in the Indian market

Storage media market giant Seagate has launched a range of hard drives and solutions for entertainment, consumer electronics and computing. The company wants to provide solution for every kind of storage need for the customer in this market.

Seagate Technology country manager (India and SAARC) Rajesh Khurana launched around 10 new products and said that these will enable availability of digital, audio, video and data across a host of devices and applications.

Khurana added: “According to IDC report, the annual shipment for consumer storage is 12.4 crore in 2006. It will increase to 25.5 crore by 2009. Our extensive technology portfolio leveraged across multiple product platforms, combined with our recent acquisition of Maxtor, has strengthened our ability to deliver products to consumers.”

He further said: “Digital content creation and distribution is driving the industry growth. The on-demand phenomenon crosses all market segments, driving an extraordinary increase and diversification in the need for solutions that help people create, store, share and protect digital content everywhere.”

Some of the new products launched by the company are 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard drives with up to 750 GB capacity for consumer electronics, notebook and desktop PC and enterprise applications; 8.0GB pocket drive and notebook drive which combine rotating disc and flash memory; Mirra personal server; Barracuda ES for high capacity servers and Momentus 5400.2 FDE for full disc encryption up to 160 GB.

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