Seagate 8GB CompactFlash Drive Selected for Professional Photographer Magazine's Prestigious Hot1 Award2 March 2006
Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX), the world's leading supplier of consumer electronics hard drives, announced today that the Seagate 8GB CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive has been awarded Professional Photographer Magazine's "Hot1 Award" in the digital storage media category. The prestigious awards are presented by the magazine annually to products judged to be of the highest quality and most innovative in their category.
"This is quite an honor for a product that is a new entry into a competitive market," said Jim Druckrey senior vice president and general manager of Branded Solutions for Seagate Technology. "Our Photo Hard Drive storage card is ideal for the needs of professional photographers, providing them with a cost-effective, simple way to store and manage the valuable digital content they accumulate for their work and play."
The Seagate 8GB CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive storage card offers unmatched capacities at cost-effective prices for photography enthusiasts. The highest available capacities make this drive ideal for high-resolution, digital cameras with CompactFlash Type II media slots. Photographers can shoot large volumes of high-resolution pictures without changing the card. It offers unparalleled capacities, delivering 1800+ very high resolution (11 megapixel) or 2300+ high-resolution pictures (8 megapixel) on one 8GB card.
The Professional Photographer Hot1 Awards is a must-have list of the year's hottest, most sought-after new products. Selected by a panel of professional photographers, the award winning products are chosen for their innovation, overall quality and value for price. Now in its seventh year, the Professional Photographer Hot1 Awards are one of the largest product competitions in the photography industry, with 60 product categories from hundreds of different companies.
Seagate's award-winning 8GB CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive will be featured in the January 2006 issue of Professional Photographer Magazine as well as online at http://www.ppmag.com.
The Seagate 8GB CompactFlash Photo Hard Drive is available for $259, and the 4GB version is available for $149 at select retail outlets or online at http://www.seagate.com.
More information and photos of this and other Seagate storage solutions are available at: http://www.seagate.com/newsinfo/newsroom/
About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, and Consumer Electronics applications. Seagate's business model leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global customers, and to be the low cost producer in all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world's growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe and at http://www.seagate.com.
NOTE: Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. When referring to drive capacity one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes and one megabyte, or MB, equals one million bytes. Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and formatting.
Source: prnewswire
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