Seagate provides a full spectrum of storage solutions and services to optimize the experience from Windows Vista and digital content assets in almost any personal or business context that involves technology, so you can get the highest value and best benefits from your investment, including the Windows Vista implementation. No matter what you want to accomplish, Seagate offers industry-leading technology at a low cost of ownership with a substantial return. You can run your life and business the way you like, in full confidence that your digital treasures and applications are available and protected. Seagate provides uninterrupted continuity—you can grow your storage solutions, use and enjoy your content and information, and be as productive and efficient as you like, because the technology serves your objectives with uncompromised reliability and consistent high performance.

For business users: Maximize the value of a Windows Vista implementation by complementing Windows Vista with Seagate technology, so you can capitalize on the benefits of advanced storage management and industry-leading drives immediately.

For home and home office users: You want to be ready for Windows Vista, even if you don’t make the transition right now. Today and in the future, Seagate storage lets you pursue your goals and lifestyle in the way you like. The presence of a Seagate hard drive in a computer or storage system is a key factor in your ability to enjoy the advanced features of Windows Vista.

Seagate and Windows Vista

What features within Windows Vista require even more storage? While installing Windows Vista alone does require significantly more storage space than its predecessors—up to 15 GB compared to 1.5 GB—other features of Windows Vista also necessitate additional capacity. These features include:

• Windows Media Center, which allows users to collect, purchase, create and share digital content—from images and movies to music more dynamically. For example, users can record TV shows and movies, create slide shows and add sound to images
• Basic file backup and restore, which allows people to back up their valuable multimedia files, content and information to another hard drive or external storage solution.
• Windows Mail, which includes new search capabilities that make it easier to find and manage messages.
• Gaming support, which is much advanced compared with earlier versions of the Windows client. Gamers can enjoy the newest, most sophisticated games, but they will also need the space to store them and the performance to truly experience them.

As the largest hard drive provider in the world, Seagate has the broadest portfolio of solutions, products and services that allow you to meet Windows Vista-related storage needs. Seagate provides users with the room to run Windows Vista along with all their data and applications, and eliminates the worry about capacity requirements. In addition, the enhanced features within Seagate hard drives are particularly suited for Windows Vista installations. For example, the Seagate Momentus® 5400 PSD hybrid drive combines traditional hard drive storage with flash memory. This pairing extends the battery life of laptops, increases reliability by carefully managing and minimizing the activity of the hard drive’s moving parts, and gets you working and playing faster by booting faster.

Windows Vista and Seagate drives—a combination to make your digital life work better.