Small form factor enterprise family expands, adding highest performance density while maintaining reliability and low power consumption for a broad range of enterprise applications

Dubai, January 24, 2007 - Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) today introduced the world's fastest hard drive - the Savvio 15K drive, the new 15K-rpm (15,000 rpm) addition to the Savvio family of 2.5-inch SAS [Serial Attached SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)] enterprise drive solutions.

The Savvio 15K drive provides the highest hard drive performance density and reliability while ensuring ultra-low power consumption, reducing thermal loads in data centers. With its combination of benefits that were created for modern storage systems, the Savvio 15K drive is well-suited for a broad range of mainstream enterprise applications in both large enterprise data centers and small, medium businesses that lowers overall system Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

"Seagate is committed to delivering solutions that will meet the needs of the Middle East's demanding IT environment, and no product demonstrates this better than the Savvio 15K drive," said Ziad Abou Rahal, MEA Regional Channel Manager, Seagate Technology. "The development of the 2.5-inch Enterprise form factor represented a new way of thinking.

The Savvio 15K drive was recently validated as the world's fastest drive within the latest HP ProLiant family of servers. "The Seagate Savvio 15K drives running in HP ProLiant servers and storage devices delivered record-breaking benchmarks at nearly 50 percent lower cost-per-transaction," said Paul Perez, vice president, Storage, Networks and Infrastructure, HP.

The Savvio 15K drive's unique combination of features including its 70 percent smaller size, lower power consumption (30 percent lower than any other 15K drive), industry's fastest seek time and the industry's highest reliability, make it the ideal storage solution for all server platforms. Designed from the ground up to meet the demanding requirements of enterprise applications, Savvio achieves the highest reliability rating ever with a 1.6 million hour Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF).

"The trend in IT is to scale down the physical size of components while scaling up capacity and performance," said John Rydning, IDC's research manager for hard disk drives. "Seagate's first generation 2.5-inch 15K-rpm HDD is fitting with this trend, delivering fast I/O performance in a small package to meet the needs of demanding server applications."

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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, Seagate Technology and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC. Savvio and Cheetah are are trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or one of its affiliated companies. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 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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