The Seagate Cheetah: Driving Digital Media

New Delhi: As part of its ongoing effort to educate users on storage technology applications and usage, Seagate Technology, recently went on a Digital Media workshop tour across five cities in India, including New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune and Hyderabad. Seagate is a leading supplier of hard disc drives.

Titled "Creative I," the Digital Media workshop covered digital media creation, workflow and also new and emerging technologies in the audio-visual industry. The workshop on content creation, storage and distribution attracted over 300 participants, and were conducted using Pinnacle systems, equipped with high-performance Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 drives.

Currently in its third generation, the company says that the Cheetah 15K.3 disc drives run faster, and is cooler and quieter than ever. According to the company, the Cheetah 15K.3 is the lowest cost-per-i/o disc drive delivering 35 per cent more I/O per second (IOPS) than 10K drives. Fewer 15K drives are needed to deliver the same IOPS as 10Ks, leading to greater overall system reliability and savings in hardware, space, power, cooling and IT administration costs.

Seagate''s research into the needs of the film industry, according to the company, has also helped bring about exclusive technologies such as its V Optimized code. The V Optimized code allows large video files to be stored, retrieved, and edited without fear of dropouts, screen freezes or data loss, delivering professional and high quality results.

According to the company the Cheetah family were the first drives to deliver fibre channel technology. The technology enables collaborative video — editing between several users, each located at their own system. The drives are also the only ones to offer just-in-time (JIT) seek technology a capability that significantly lowers studio acoustics with no performance degradation.

Since their debut as the world''s fastest disc drive, the Cheetah family, according to Seagate, has set records for performance, and received numerous awards from leading technology publications around the world. Seagate is a worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of Enterprise, PC, Notebook and consumer electronics applications.