Seagate continues to deliver the most popular high performance disc drives

Seagate continues to deliver the most popular high performance disc drives

Seagate Technology (NYSE: STX), the world’s leading supplier of disc drives, today announced the company has shipped its ten-millionth 15K-rpm disc drive. As a technology innovator and Enterprise champ, Seagate delivered the world’s first 15K-rpm disc drive in 2001 and continues today with its fourth generation Cheetah 15K.4. Because of its field-proven reliability and award-winning performance, more storage solution manufacturers choose Seagate disc drives as the core technology for their breakthrough Enterprise storage products.

“Market acceptance and adoption of 15K-rpm drives more than doubled from 2002 to 2004, with Seagate’s 15K Cheetah comprising over two-thirds of all 15K-rpm drives shipped worldwide over the same time frame,” said David Reinsel, director of storage research at IDC. “A large percentage of major OEMs deliver storage solutions that can be centrally managed and provide a high level of IOPS per square foot, which plays to the strength of 15K-rpm drives.”

“This milestone signals a changing of the guard for enterprise storage,” said Jeff Loebbaka, Seagate vice president of Global Marketing. “15K drives have become the standard choice for the enterprise. At the same time, 2.5-inch enterprise-class drives are emerging to meet the need for new high I/O density platforms. Seagate is proud to have led the industry transition for 3.5-inch drives from 10K to 15K.”

Cheetah 15K.4

The Cheetah 15K.4 is the best price-per-performance disc drive from Seagate, benefiting from the team experience acquired from over four generations of Cheetah 15K-rpm products. With the Cheetah 15K.4’s high-performance and reliability, it is designed as the mainstream enterprise drive of choice for use in today’s most critical I/O-intensive data centers.

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