Seagate ST3500312CS Pipeline HD, enabling fanless DVRs - Page 1

Technology Paper Fanless DVRs No Longer a Fantasy With Power Efficient Drives From Seagate Fanless DVRs can help OEMs simplify manufacturing processes, meet the needs of a growing market and increase their bottom line. By producing fanless DVRs, OEMs can: • Reduce development and build costs with fewer components to source and manage • Increase the reliability of their inventory by eliminating a component • Minimize DVR power consumption to capitalize on potential "green" benefits • Improve the customer experience by enhancing acoustics • Increase production capacity for a highly marketable product with strong demand potential Introduction Advances in hard drive technology continue to change the way DVR and set-top-box manufacturers design and build home entertainment solutions. Now, the development of drives featuring remarkably low power consumption and heat generation make it feasible to produce DVRs without cooling fans. This constitutes a revolution in home electronics design and exposes exciting opportunities for DVR and set-top-box makers, and consumers. As the world's largest hard drive manufacturer, Seagate Technology LLC provides industry-leading storage devices-alongside a comprehensive portfolio of services-to help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) drive innovation and business growth. Based on the dramatic power efficiency and heat dissipation improvements achieved in the Seagate® Pipeline HD™ drive, production of fanless DVRs is now a viable option for OEMs looking to gain a competitive edge. By embracing this new technology, OEMs can quickly ramp their capacity for building fanless DVRs to gain prime-mover advantage in a market with increasing growth potential. Further, OEMs can use fanless DVR to reduce their build costs through lower component counts and greater overall process efficiency.