Seagate unveiled its green technology hard disk : Barracuda Green

SO-CALLED "green" hard disk drives (HDDs) are normally associated with hard drives that sacrifice performance for their lower power consumption.

Not so with Seagate's new eco-friendly Barracuda Green 3.5in desktop HDDs. The drives actually feature the industry's highest spin speeds for eco-friendly drives at 5,900RPM, and utilises Seagate's SmartAlign technology that optimsises the use of the new 4K sector standard (that's 4,096-bytes-per-sector) for increased performance.

What makes the Barracuda Green drives eco-friendly, however, is that Seagate builds them to the highest environmental standards, and that the HDDs are more than 70% recyclable, as well as use low-halogen components for low environmental impact.

The series is available in 1TB, 1.5TB and 2TB capacities, and should be available in stores right now.

Seagate unveils HD media player

Now you can easily view your photos and HD videos with the Seagate FreeAgent Theater+ HD media player.

The player supports HD videos (up to 1080p) and Dolby Digital and DTS 2.0 + Digital Out surround sound.

It is able to play a myriad of multimedia files and connects to a TV via composite, component video or HDMI connection.

For movies, the media player supports MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4, DivX HD, Xvid HD, AVI, MOV and more.

Song formats supported include AAC, MP3, WMA, WAV and OGG. And for images, the player supports JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG and TIFF formats.

It also has a special docking system for Seagate FreeAgent Go portable drives which allows the external drive to slide into the media player.

Other brand of external drives, thumdrives and digital cameras can be hooked up to the player thorugh its two USB2.0 ports.

FreeAgent Theater+ HD also has an Ethernet port for connecting it to a network for accessing media files located on a PC or notebook.

Also, the media player is bundled with a remote control.

Source: ERM Blog