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Smart Surveillance Systems Tap Reliability and Performance of Seagate SV35 Series Drives To Learn More Seagate SV35 Series drives For more information on utilizing Seagate SV35 Series drives for video surveillance operations, visit www.seagate.com. determine when a security "breach" occurs. "Video surveillance can no longer be reactive and dumb, it now needs to be proactive and smart," emphasized Mr. Tan. Seagate SV35 Series Excellent for Digital Surveillance Systems Today video data is increasingly moving away from being stored in analog VHS tapes to digital hard disk drives (HDD). And when it comes to choosing the right hard disk for its digital video surveillance systems, WPG gives the firm thumbs up for the Seagate® SV35 Series™ of HDDs for video surveillance applications. After going through a series of performance and reliability tests, WPG has validated the suitability of SV35 Series drives for use with ObjectVideo surveillance systems. Typical HDDs used in PCs are not optimized for surveillance digital video recorders (SDVR). The Seagate SV35 Series drive, however, is specially designed for use in SDVR environments with critical features like high reliability, power optimization, improved performance and high capacity. "Seagate is a first mover in making hard disk drives optimized for digital surveillance use. And the Seagate SV35 well passed all our repetitive data writing 'endurance' tests," said Mr. Tan. High Reliability and Improved Performance The Seagate SV35 Series drive is designed for heavy-duty continuous recording, for recording and playback of 24x7 video surveillance operations, and has about a 30 percent longer lifespan than standard PC-based HDDs. SDVRs usually have multiple HDDs recording in an enclosed environment. Overheating is therefore an issue especially since security systems work round the clock with absolutely no downtime. The SV35 Series drive is also designed for use in SDVR environments where lower heat emissions and power requirements are essential for greater system stability. The SV35 Series drive has the capability to go into power-saving mode to spin down the drive and use minimal current. This saves power and generates less heat. "Reliability is very important in our business. Although our technology frees HDD space for day-to-day operations by storing only video with events that the user is interested in, instead of storing all video, we still need the essential footages to be secure. Hard disk failure is a grave concern in this industry. The reliability of the hard disk will directly affect the integrity of the video data," said Mr. Tan. PC-based hard disks are designed for data integrity while those in personal video recorders favor streaming integrity. For SDVR, however, video data requires both smooth streaming and high data integrity. The SV35 Series drive also boasts improved performance and supports the ATA-7 streaming command, which allows the user to customize read and write speeds. "PC-based hard disks are designed for write once, read many times, while in SDVR the reverse is true. Because video is continuously recorded and re-recorded on the hard disks, the technology in SDVR hard disks needs to be reversed. Seagate implemented such a technology with the SV35 Series drive, which is designed for greater write speeds and is best suited for SDVR operations," Mr. Tan added. Mr. Tan also said that he was looking forward to tamper-proof technology from Seagate in the near future, where the Seagate SV35 drives will come prebuilt with data encryption technology. "Overall, we are very pleased with the Seagate SV35 Series. We like the SV35 for its improved speeds, high storage size, low power consumption, low heat emission and the upcoming tamper-proof technology. In fact, we like it so much that we are recommending that it be used to all our customers who are implementing SDVR systems with Object Video technology," Mr. Tan concluded. AMERICAS ASIA / PACIFIC EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Seagate Technology LLC 920 Disc Drive, Scotts Valley, California 95066, United States, 831-438-6550 Seagate Technology International Ltd. 7000 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 5, Singapore 569877, 65-6485-3888 Seagate Technology SAS 130-136, rue de Silly, 92773, Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France 33 1-4186 10 00 Copyright © 2006 Seagate Technology LLC. All rights reserved. Printed in USA. Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC in the United States and/or other countries. SV35 Series is either a trademark or registered trademark of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. One gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting. Quantitative usage examples for various applications are for illustrative purposes. Actual quantities will vary based on various factors, including file size, file format, features and application software. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product offerings or specifications. Publication Number: CS509, October 2006