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• Seagate Ships 1 Million Solid State Hybrid Drives; Momentus® XT Hybrid Drive Adoption Soars As Major Computer Makers Offer Laptops With World's Speediest Hard Drive. MORE »
 
• Seagate GoFlex Media App is Now Available from the Android Market. MORE »
 
• Play That Funkie Music, Seagate: GoFlex Drives Rock the Recording Studio.
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Seagate Ships 1 Million Solid State Hybrid Drives; Momentus® XT Hybrid Drive Adoption Soars As Major Computer Makers Offer Laptops With World's Speediest Hard Drive

Seagate has shipped its one millionth solid state hybrid drive for laptop PCs after launching the product – Momentus® XT – in spring 2010. Major computer makers including Alienware, ASUS, Dell, Sony and Toshiba now offer laptops powered by the 2.5-inch drive that blends performance rivaling solid state drives with the enormous capacity and much lower cost of hard disk drives.

The Momentus XT solid state hybrid drive, a 7200RPM drive with up to 500GB of capacity, boots up to 50 percent faster than traditional 5400RPM drives and sets new benchmarks for real-world system performance for laptops and gaming systems. Seagate's Adaptive Memory™ technology is key to the drive's speed, optimizing its performance by moving frequently used information into the 4GB of onboard solid state memory for faster bootup and application access.

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Seagate GoFlex Media App is Now Available from the Android Market

GoFlex Satellite™ Mobile Wireless Storage Supports Android Mobile Platform with New App, In Addition to iOS Devices

Seagate unveiled a new app for Android operated mobile devices that will provide a seamless wireless connection to 500GB of storage to stream up to 300 HD videos. Introduced in May of this year, GoFlex Satellite™ mobile wireless storage is the first battery-powered external hard drive to wirelessly extend the storage capacity of any Wi-Fi enabled mobile device.

The perfect companion for your mobile devices, GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage is capable of providing hours of entertainment for up to three connections. With a stand-by battery life of up to 25 hours, the powerful lithium polymer battery delivers up to 5 hours of continuously streaming video

Devices are wirelessly connected directly to the GoFlex Satellite drive by use of the free GoFlex Media App —available now on Android Market and iTunes for iOS devices —or a web browser.

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Play That Funkie Music, Seagate: GoFlex Drives Rock the Recording Studio

Behind a bank of computers, hard disk drives, guitars and recording gear sits Eric Ng, one of Asia's top Mandarin pop musicians. His company, Funkie Monkies Productions, uses Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex™ hard drives to capture, store and backup every guitar riff, drum beat, vocal track and other digital data that goes into making a hit song.

Ng, who's composed more than 100 songs and helped produce more than 100 albums, is a master of creating music in the digital age, taking the art to new heights by switching from the traditional digital recording method in 44.1 hertz/16 Bit to 96 hertz/24 bit. The new recording method enables him to capture every nuance of an artist's performance.

"It makes a big difference in terms of audio quality," says Ng. "With the old method, a song would normally take up three gigabytes of space. Now, with the more intense and complete recording method, a song will take up between 15 and 20 gigabytes on the hard drive. It's like a digital photo: the greater the resolution, the more detail is captured. Recording in high–audio quality to our Seagate drives helps us get the very best from each artist."

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