SCOTTS
VALLEY, Calif.-14 June 2004- Seagate Technology
(NYSE:STX) announced today it has greatly expanded its
line of personal computing hard drives, unveiling new
internal and external hard drives with 400GB capacities,
a new small footprint portable external hard drive with
up to 100GB capacity and the world's first pocket external
hard drive. Built on the most advanced hard drive technology
platforms in the industry, each new hard drive is designed
to make data storage, backup and transfer more reliable
and easier than ever to meet a variety of consumers'
personal computing needs.
The new Barracuda 7200.8 disc drive offers PC makers
and consumers the industry's highest areal density with
400GB on a three-disc platform, a new cache size up
to 16 Mbytes, a choice of an Ultra ATA interface or
the industry's first native Serial ATA (SATA) interface
with native command queuing (NCQ), and remains the quietest
PC hard drive on the market. Seagate will also offer
the new 400GB capacity in its award-winning desktop
Seagate External Hard Drive, which is perfect for using
less desktop space and travels well with notebook PCs
while still offering a 100GB capacity. The new Seagate
USB2 Pocket Hard Drive is the first tiny USB-compatible
5GB drive consumers can pop in their pocket or backpack
to carry data wherever they go, thanks to its tough-but-cute
hard case.
"With the variety of applications
served by its new product line, Seagate, the hard
drive category leader, is unveiling an unparalleled
combination of capacities, sizes, functions and usability,
with among the most advanced specifications on the
market. The announcement of these products puts Seagate
at the forefront of rapidly evolving consumer storage
trends," said John Kim, vice president of TrendFOCUS,
a Los Altos, California-based market intelligence
firm.
"With the industry's highest available
capacities, the new Barracuda 7200.8 disc drive enables
PC makers and System Integrators to qualify one family
of drives from a trusted supplier for a wide range
of personal storage applications," said Brian
Dexheimer, Seagate executive vice president of Global
Sales and Marketing. "Our new line of External
Hard Drives in various sizes and capacities provides
the greatest choice to consumers with widely varied
needs. Coming from the world's most experienced hard
drive maker, Seagate storage will give customers years
of reliable service and top performance.."
Barracuda 7200.8
Barracuda 7200.8 disc drives, the newest
generation of the world's most popular PC hard drive
family, provide up to 400GB and fast performance with
new cache sizes up to 16-Mbytes, a 7,200-rpm spin
speed, and an 8.0-msec average seek time. It offers
the industry's first Native SATA interface with NCQ
and support for the latest PC technology, including
Intel Hyper-Threading. Barracuda 7200.8 enables fast
data-transfer rates for hot-rod PC gaming systems
and mainstream PCs, PC-based home media servers and
entry-level SATA servers. With Seagate's patented
SoftSonic fluid dynamic bearing motors, Barracuda
7200.8 is extremely quiet, emitting as little as 2.0
bels at idle in the 120GB version.
SATA NCQ interface technology will
provide a new advantage in today's systems with Hyper-Threading
Technology, which allows multiple applications to
send I/O requests at the same time. NCQ will boost
performance still more when applications take advantage
of Asynchronous I/O. In addition, NCQ increases drive
reliability in heavy workloads by eliminating much
of the mechanical wear and tear that a non-NCQ drive
must endure to transfer the same amount of data.
Seagate USB2 Pocket Hard Drive
The Seagate USB2 Pocket Hard Drive is the
world's first external hard drive small enough for
consumers to fit in their pockets or throw in a backpack.
Safely encased in its sleek round shell, its robust
design and high shock tolerance enables mobility and
makes it as convenient as a USB thumb drive, while
offering an incredible 2.5GB or 5GB of storage for
transporting or temporarily backing up a huge amount
of data.
Seagate Portable External Hard
Drive
Designed with a smaller hard drive inside
(2.5-inch) to offer up to 100GB of portable storage
in a sleek and very small footprint for your desk,
the Seagate Portable External Hard Drive is the smallest
desktop external hard drive offered by any of the
leading hard disc drive suppliers. This high-capacity,
USB bus-powered portable external drive offers low
power consumption, high shock tolerance and a compact
footprint - it's the ultimate solution for consumers
and business travelers who want to take their digital
content with them.
Seagate External Hard Drive
Seagate will also offer its popular Seagate
External Hard Drive with a new 400GB capacity. With
stunning good looks, cool-running ruggedness, easy
push-button backup, award-winning, easy-to-use backup
software and a convenient on/off switch for power
savings and data security, the Seagate External Hard
Drive was developed from the ground up to deliver
the highest consumer design standards ever seen in
a hard drive. With Seagate's unique interlocking design,
users can stack multiple Seagate External Hard Drives
horizontally, or place the drive vertically for the
smallest footprint on the market. A sturdy, upright
stand and non-slip rubber feet on two sides ensure
the drive can be arranged in many convenient ways
and won't slide around or slip off a desk. And users
can plug and unplug the drive without turning off
the computer. The Seagate External Hard Drive runs
much cooler than other high-capacity external drives,
because it's designed to dissipate heat in any configuration
- vertical or stacked. Plus, lifetime tech support
means that users can call for friendly technical advice
for the entire long life of the drive.
For details about each new Seagate
product, please visit http://specials.seagate.com/spectrum.
The Seagate USB2 Pocket Hard Drive and the Seagate
Portable External Hard Drive are expected to be on
store shelves in time for school this Fall 2004. The
new 400GB Seagate External Hard Drive will be on store
shelves for the holiday shopping season, and the Seagate
Barracuda 7200.8 disc drive will begin shipping in
Fall 2004.
Seagate is the worldwide leader in
the design, manufacturing and marketing of hard disc
drives, providing products for a wide range of Enterprise,
PC, Notebook and Consumer Electronics applications.
The company is committed to delivering 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 www.seagate.com.
Seagate and Seagate Technology are
registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. The
WAVE logo and Barracuda are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. All other trademarks
or registered trademarks are the property of their
respective owners. Specified storage capacities reflect
standard configurations exclusive of operating system
or other software formatting.
Seagate, Giugno 2004.
