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Press Release, December 5, 2006
http://www.seagate.com/cda
/newsinfo/newsroom/releases
/article/0,1539,60009,00.html
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.—05 December 2006— Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) today
announced that Barracuda 7200.10, the world's first desktop PC hard drive
to feature capacity-boosting perpendicular recording technology and a
mammoth 750GB of storage space, has won PC Magazine's 23rd annual Technical
Excellence Award for storage.
Seagate began shipping Barracuda 7200.10, the 10th generation of the
world's most popular desktop PC hard drive, in April 2006, and no other
hard drive maker has matched the drive's top capacity of 750GB. The
3.5-inch, 7200-RPM drive's introduction marked the biggest, fastest
capacity jump in the 50-year history of hard drives - a 50 percent leap
from the previous high of 500GB.
Barracuda 7200.10 drive was handpicked for the annual Technical Excellence
Award by the PC Magazine's editorial and labs team. The awards celebrate
the best technology achievements of 2006. A profile on Barracuda 7200.10
drive and the other technologies will appear in the December 26 issue of PC
Magazine (on sale today) and at http://go.pcmag.com/techex.
"Seagate's Barracuda 7200.10 drive is one of the products that are
redefining the cutting edge of technology," said PC Magazine
editor-in-chief, Jim Louderback. "Each of the Technical Excellence Award
winners has developed technology that is sure to become tomorrow's gold
standard."
For Seagate, the day of the new gold standard is here. Seagate stands alone
in delivering perpendicular recording technology across desktop, notebook,
enterprise, consumer electronics and retail hard drives. The technology
represents a shift from a half-century of technological precedent to a new
way of recording data to the disk media, standing data bits vertically onto
the disc media, rather than horizontal to the surface as with traditional
longitudinal recording, to deliver new levels of hard drive data density,
capacity and reliability. The new data orientation also increases drive
throughput without increasing spin speed by allowing more data bits to pass
under the drive head in the same amount of time.
"The home PC is fast becoming the center of the digital universe as
consumers worldwide store massive volumes of music, photos, movies,
computer games and other digital content on their desktops," said Tom
Major, acting general manager, Personal Compute. "These users need more
speed, more capacity and higher reliability to move and manipulate data
generated by proliferating consumer electronics services and devices.
Barracuda 7200.10 exemplifies Seagate's commitment to making it easier for
users to store and manage the staggering amount of digital content being
created, downloaded and uploaded every day."
About PC Magazine
PC Magazine delivers comprehensive labs-based reviews and the most trusted
recommendations for buyers of technology products and services. Reaching
more than 4.8 million highly engaged technology influencers, PC Magazine
provides product reviews, first looks at emerging technologies and
products, and opinionated columns from renowned technology pundits. To meet
its readers' needs for buying information that is as current as it is
comprehensive, PC Magazine publishes 22 times a year in print and
continually on the Web at www.pcmag.com.
About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of
hard disc drives, providing products for a wide-range of applications,
including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and
Branded Solutions. 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 www.seagate.com.
Seagate, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of
Seagate Technology LLC. Barracuda is a trademark or registered trademark of
Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies. 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. One gigabyte,
or GB, equals one billion bytes when referring to hard drive capacity.
Accessible capacity may vary depending on operating environment and
formatting.
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