Seagate Technology announced today it has further expanded its line of CE hard disc drives, unveiling a series of industry innovations including the first 8GB 1-inch hard drive for handheld applications. With new, more advanced technology in the widely adopted ST1 Series hard drive for handheld applications, the 8GB Seagate ST1 Series can hold up to 200 hours - or 4,000 songs - of high-quality music files (128 kbps), a breakthrough for pocket-size music players and entertainment devices. With 8GB, consumers will keep larger-than-ever libraries of music, video and digital photos in their pockets.

Seagate's ST1 Series also delivers important and unique features for handheld applications. Seagate's exclusive RunOn Technology ensures consistent music playback while in a high-motion environment, such as jogging - the drive actually senses and compensates for motion to stay on track. Seagate also delivers technology that protects the drive against shock from accidental system mishandling, increasing the robustness of the devices into which it's integrated. Now shipping qualification units to select OEM customers in 8GB capacity, and also available in 6GB, 5GB, 4GB, 3GB and 2.5GB, Seagate's ST1 Series hard drive family is used in all the leading handheld music players and by more device makers than any other 1-inch hard drive.

Seagate is shipping limited quantities of the 8GB ST1 Series now to select OEM customers.

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