Seagate’s 750GB Desktop Hard Drive Wins Best Design of the Year Honor from Electronic Design Magazine

Seagate’s 750GB Desktop Hard Drive Wins Best Design of the Year Honor from Electronic Design Magazine

Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) today announced that the Seagate Barracuda® 7200.10 hard drive, the world’s first desktop PC hard drive to feature up to 750GB of capacity and advanced perpendicular recording technology, has won Electronic Design Magazine’s Best Design of 2006 Award.

The award comes one month after the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 hard drive won PC World’s 20 Most Innovative Products Award and PC Magazine’s Annual Technical Excellence Award. Electronic Design lauded the Barracuda 7200.10, the only hard drive to be honored by the magazine, as an “outstanding end-product design” that leverages technology “significant to advancing electronic design.”

“Seagate’s Barracuda 7200.10 combines the highest levels of capacity and performance needed by today’s multimedia applications with the reliability necessary for large-capacity systems,” said Bill Wong, embedded systems and technology editor for Electronic Design Magazine. “This drive sets a new standard for desktop PC hard drives in a compact and quiet package.”

“Seagate couldn’t be more pleased that the Barracuda 7200.10 hard drive and our perpendicular recording technology have received this great honor from Electronic Design Magazine,” said Michael Wingert, Seagate executive vice president and general manager, Personal Compute Business. “Consumers and organizations of all sizes need innovations like perpendicular recording to store vast amounts of content in our increasingly digital world. Seagate will continue to develop products and technologies that make it easier to store, manage and use this information.”

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