Hard-drive maker Seagate said Thursday that it is shipping the first consumer-electronics drives that use a new industry standard for data streaming. "The 3.5" drives incorporate the ATA standard streaming command set adopted by the T13 committee earlier this year, the company said. In the past, various hard-drive makers, including Seagate, established proprietary ways of improving video streaming in hard drives, the company said."

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