Tough Conditions Demand Tougher Drives

Ruggedized hard drives go wherever digital content needs to be reliably delivered and stored in extreme environments, such as:

• Land-based communications
• Video surveillance
• Mobile ground systems *
• Combat vehicles *
• Aircraft *
• Remote drones *
• Submarines *
• Helicopters
• Missile systems *
• Flight information and backup systems
• Commercial aircraft entertainment systems

Engineered-in Advantages

The world of military and aerospace applications is a hard and dangerous place for data as well as for people. Data must be available in spite of the hardships that weather, terrain, even in some cases military battles, can throw at it. That’s why government agencies require suppliers to use ruggedized hard drives in many of the solutions they build. And that’s why Seagate provides ruggedized drives.

Consumer drives that perform perfectly well in ordinary office and mobile situations simply aren't intended for hard knocks and high stress. Flash drives, another solution for rugged environments, can’t provide the capacity/price performance most military/aerospace system designers require.

Seagate's commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) ruggedized hard drives operate reliably 24/7, year after year, while enduring:

• Temperatures of -30°C to 85°C
• Altitudes from -1,000 feet to 16,400 feet (pressurised)
• Vibration tolerance up to 2 Gs
• Long-duration shock of 110 Gs

These drives offer all the capacity required by data-intensive applications, at a reasonable price. Their low power requirements enable low-cost designs.

Seagate Design Service Centres

We make ruggedized drives. We also offer you our considerable expertise in developing applications around them, at the Seagate Design Service Centres. No one else in the industry has the expertise and equipment to test your solutions as rigorously as we can. Seagate works with you, as a customer, to understand your requirements, and then helps you meet those requirements before the first box is shipped.

* The permission of the US government may be required before Seagate design services can be provided to non-US weapons systems, examples of which are indicated above.

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