Video 2.5 HDD

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Cool, quiet, low power video performance

Stream, record and play back your customer’s favourite video content with the unparalleled reliability and performance of Seagate® Video 2.5 HDD.

  • Seagate expands video hard drive offerings to a 2.5” platform
  • Purpose-built 2.5” video drives designed specifically for for STB and DVR manufacturers to support 24x7 applications
  • Choose the drive with optimised streaming, recording and playback of your favourite video content
  • Reliability and performance equal to Seagate Video 3.5 HDDs
  • Industry leading AFR of 0.55%
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Purpose-built video storage

Designed specifically for video applications, Video 2.5 HDDs are built to ensure your customers have the best video experience. From streaming to acoustics to reliability, Seagate Video 2.5 HDDs are fine tuned to thrive in video applications for both system integrators and end users.

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24x7 video HDD reliability

Trusted by the world’s leading set-top box manufacturers, Seagate brings over ten years of experience, proven reliability and performance to the video storage world.

Backed by 0.55% AFR, Video 2.5 HDDs offer industry leading reliability for 24x7, video applications.

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Video HDD design flexibility

Seagate Video 2.5 HDDs are offered in a 7mm form factor, allowing flexibility for design integration. A 500GB 7mm Seagate Video HDD takes up 1/6 the space of the same 3.5" 500GB video hard drive and consumes 55% less power. These design enhancements allow for low heat emission, which enables solution engineers to consider new options such as fanless box designs.

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Features

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Purpose-built video performance you can count on

Streaming, recording and playing back your favourite content whenever you want, you can rely on Seagate® Video 2.5 HDDs to keep your content safe until you need it. Our purpose-built Video 2.5 HDDs feature:

  • Support for up to 12 simultaneous HD streams
  • Video playback optimised with Command Completion Time (CCT) to ensure smooth data delivery
  • 500GB supports up to 38 hours of your favourite movies and TV shows, or 100,000 photos, or 125,000 songs!
  • Near silent acoustics
  • Low power consumption helps reduce heat emissions and qualify video solutions for Energy Star standards
  • Designed and tested to work in higher temperature environments (like entertainment centres) for improved reliability
  • Years of experience with bespoke video drives brings you the industry’s best reliability of 0.55% AFR
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Reliable 24x7 video storage

Your best films, TV shows and media favourites are all stored on your DVR or media centre – trust Seagate to protect them.

While Video 2.5 HDDs are hard at work storing your favourite TV shows and films, your content will be kept safe, protected by an AFR of 0.55%. Spend more time living with your favourite content at your fingertips.

We’ve mastered a combination of low power consumption and heat emissions, along with 24x7 operation, to give you industry- leading reliability of 0.55% AFR required for video needs

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Low power video HDD

Demands for low energy consumption are raising the bar for set-top box and DVR manufacturers, and Seagate helps customers meet new Energy Star requirements.

Cut your power consumption by up to 55% by choosing Seagate Video 2.5 HDDs over competing 3.5-inch video offerings.

Specifications

 
Capacity 500GB 320GB 250GB
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Form Factor 2.5" 2.5" 2.5"
Interface Options SATA 3Gb/s SATA 3Gb/s SATA 3Gb/s
Performance      
Cache (MB) 16 16 16
Transfer Rate, Max Ext (MB/s) 300 300 300
Sustained Data Rate OD 100 100 100
Average Latency (ms) 5.6 5.6 5.6
Reliability/Data Integrity      
Non-recoverable Read Errors per Bits Read 1 in 1014 1 in 1014 1 in 1014
Annualised Failure Rate (AFR) 0.55% 0.55% 0.55%
Power Management      
Seek, Typical Operating (W) 1.5 1.5 1.5
Idling, Typical Operating (W) 0.66 0.66 0.66
Environmental      
Temperature      
Operating 0° to 60°C 0° to 60°C 0° to 60°C
Non-operating -40° to 70°C -40° to 70°C -40° to 70°C
Shock      
Operating: Gs (ms) 400 (2ms) 400 (2ms) 400 (2ms)
Non-operating: Gs (ms) 1000 (1ms) 1000 (1ms) 1000 (1ms)
Acoustics (bels - sound power)      
Idling 2.0 2.0 2.0
Operating 2.2 2.2 2.2
Physical      
Height (in/mm) (maximum) 0.276/7.0 0.276/7.0 0.276/7.0
Width (in/mm) (maximum) 2.76/70.10 2.76/70.10 2.76/70.10
Length (in/mm) (maximum) 3.959/100.55 3.959/100.55 3.959/100.55
Weight (lbs/g) 0.209/95 0.209/95 0.209/95
Model Number Capacity Interface Cache (MB) Hours of Video Supported
ST500VT000 500GB SATA 3Gb/s 16MB 38
ST320VT000 320GB SATA 3Gb/s 16MB 24
ST250VT000 250GB SATA 3Gb/s 16MB 19