— New Ultrastar A7K2000 Delivers Massive Capacity, Reliability, 7200 RPM Performance, and Power Efficiency Data Centers Require To Satisfy Growing Storage Needs
—
SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 11, 2009 –
Leveraging its proven, fourth-generation
high-capacity hard drive technology, Hitachi
Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi
GST) today announced that it is now
shipping the industry’s first
enterprise-class, 7200 RPM 2TB offering, the
Ultrastar A7K2000. The new Hitachi GST
Ultrastar A7K2000 is designed, manufactured
and tested to ensure enterprise-class
mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) of 1.2
million hours in demanding 24x7 nearline
applications. With a combination of high
capacity and reliability, 7200 RPM
performance, low power, and enterprise-class
features, the Ultrastar A7K2000 drive is the
ideal enterprise SATA drive for applications
such as data warehousing, disk-to-disk
backup, cloud computing and massive
scale-out storage implementations where
storage density, GB-per-watt and cost-per-GB
are critical parameters.
Double the Capacity Density
As enterprises grapple with the unabated
growth of digital content, maximizing
storage rack-density and floor tile space,
while simultaneously reducing energy
consumption, are top concerns. In today’s
global economy, data centers are pushing the
boundaries to make storage more efficient by
implementing leading-edge technologies like
virtualization, thin provisioning and
de-duplication – and they’re increasingly
turning to Hitachi GST’s capacity-optimized
Ultrastar drives to help accomplish that
goal. At 2TB per drive, the A7K2000 has
double the capacity of the prior generation
A7K1000 drive in the same 3.5-inch form
factor.
“Xyratex is pleased to work with Hitachi
qualifying the industry’s first
enterprise-class, 7,200 RPM 2TB hard disk
drive,” said Todd Gresham, senior vice
president, Networked Storage Solutions,
Xyratex. “We welcome this benchmark product
from Hitachi, whose family of Ultrastar
drives continues to offer us the capacity,
performance, reliability, and low power that
our storage and server OEM customers
require.”
Industry Leading Reliability
In its fourth generation, the Hitachi
Ultrastar A7K2000 drive can be easily
integrated into new and existing storage
systems, enabling higher capacity density
and drawing less power in the same 3.5-inch
footprint. Specifically designed for the
enterprise, Ultrastar SATA drives feature
Hitachi’s patented Rotational Vibration
Safeguard (RVS) sensor technology, which
optimizes drive performance in multi-drive
RAID arrays and rack-mounted systems. Backed
by a five-year warranty, the Ultrastar
platform has earned Hitachi GST a reputation
among server and storage vendors as a global
partner dedicated to delivering the highest
quality and reliability in the industry.
“Whether you’re a systems integrator,
whitebox manufacturer or global OEM, your
storage requirements demand flexible and
creative solutions. The more you can tailor
those solutions to the best balance of
capacity, reliability, low power and cost,
the more your customer’s can achieve new
levels of storage efficiency,” said Brendan
Collins, vice president of marketing,
Hitachi GST. “With the addition of the
A7K2000, Hitachi GST continues to provide
one of the broadest ranges of enterprise
storage products in the world—from premium,
enterprise-class, capacity-optimized SATA
drives to performance oriented 10,000 and
15,000 RPM drives—ideal for virtually every
aspect of storage in the data center.”
7200 RPM Performance and Reduced Power
Consumption
Operating at 7200 RPM, the Hitachi Ultrastar
A7K2000 offers better overall performance
than slower-RPM, capacity-oriented drives,
and does so at impressively low
power-consumption rates. When compared to
Hitachi’s previous generation Ultrastar
A7K1000, the A7K2000 offers a 155 percent
improvement in sustained data transfer
rates, and a 120 percent improvement in
watts-per-GB. With five Advanced Power
Management modes, a 36 percent reduction in
watts during low RPM idle mode, and using
less than 1 watt during standby/sleep modes,
the Ultrastar A7K2000 can help data centers
achieve lower AC power and HVAC
requirements, freeing up precious headroom
for growing enterprise needs. The Ultrastar
A7K2000 is halogen-free and RoHS compliant.
Data Safety and Security
No IT manager wants their company to become
front-page news as another enterprise that
has suffered an embarrassing, accidental
disclosure of sensitive data, or to be
responsible for the associated liabilities
involved. For this reason, the Ultrastar
A7K2000 is also available with a bulk data
encryption (BDE) option. When enabled, the
Hitachi BDE implementation encrypts all data
on the drive using a private security key as
it is written to the disk, and then decrypts
it with the key as it is retrieved, giving
users an extreme level of data protection.
Unlike software-based encryption solutions,
Hitachi’s BDE implementation is
hardware-based, so it won’t slow the system
down. Hitachi’s BDE also speeds up and
simplifies the drive re-deployment and
decommissioning process. By deleting the
encryption key, the data is rendered
unreadable, thereby eliminating the need for
time-consuming, multi-pattern data
overwrite.
Availability
The 2TB Ultrastar A7K2000 is now available
worldwide with a five-year warranty. 500GB
and 1TB versions of the drive will begin
shipping in the current quarter.
— Dual-core processors deliver
the right mix of power efficiency and
performance at very affordable price points
—
What: AMD
(NYSE:AMD) today announced the AMD Athlon™
II X2 dual-core 245 and 240 processors,
delivering 45nm technology-based performance
to mainstream PC users for less than $67 USD.
When combined with AMD’s chipsets, these
processors are designed to provide plenty of
performance to handle today’s popular
mainstream applications in multitasking
environments – all while remaining cool and
quiet.
Why: Given the
current economic environment, consumers are
seeking the best computing value without
sacrificing the performance required to
maintain their digital lifestyle. With AMD
Athlon™ II
X2 245 and 240 processors, system builders
and PC OEMs can better address the
industry’s need to provide affordable,
powerful and energy efficient desktop PCs
that help consumers quickly and easily
create, enjoy and share their digital world.
Who: The AMD
Athlon™ II X2 245 and 240 processors are
geared toward the growing segment of
mainstream, value-conscious PC users seeking
a full-featured product with advanced
performance to enhance their computing
capabilities at home
and at play.
Those looking for an enhanced digital
experience and demanding extreme
multitasking performance to help them do
more in less time will find these processors
help exceed their expectations.
Benefits: AMD Athlon™
II dual-core processors provide consumers
the capability to efficiently multitask and
easily create, render, transfer and share
their multimedia content. When combined with
ATI Radeon™ HD graphics technology and AMD
chipsets, systems based on the AMD Athlon™
II X2 245 and 240 processors deliver a vivid
visual experience, smooth multitasking and
exceptional digital media performance with
efficiency.
Resources
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Fremont,
CA, and Glasgow, UK, July 20, 2009
— Lexar Media, a leading global provider of
memory products for digital media, today
announced its revved-up line of Crucial
solid-state drive (SSD) products — the
fastest, highest capacity Crucial SSDs to
date. The most dramatic change in this new
generation of Crucial SSDs is the
blazing-fast read and write speeds. The
flagship 256GB Crucial M225 SSD screams at
an impressive 250MB/sec read speed and a
200MB/sec write speed. The new Crucial SSDs
enhance system performance by improving
operating system boot and application load
times. They also utilize a SATA 2.0 (3Gb/s)
interface and feature MLC NAND flash
components housed in an industry standard
2.5-inch drive enclosure, making a Crucial
M225 SSD easy to install.
"By
upgrading their system with a solid-state
drive, mobile computer users will enjoy a
faster, more rugged system with storage
built for mobility. The fact that SSDs don't
have any moving parts makes Crucial
solid-state drives quieter, cooler, and more
durable than traditional hard drives," said
Robert Wheadon, Lexar Media's senior
worldwide product marketing manager.
The benefits
of an SSD aren't limited to notebooks; the
Crucial SK01 External Drive Storage Kit
(sold separately) is compatible with all
three Crucial M225 solid-state drive
products. This innovative device delivers
the benefits of SSD technology to a user's
desktop, or as a portable storage device via
a USB port. The kit includes a 2.5-inch USB
2.0 external enclosure, a 3.5-inch SATA
3Gb/s hot-swappable drive bay, and a
5.25-inch drive bay bracket. The Crucial
SK01 kit comes with a five year limited
warranty.
Visit
www.crucial.com/ssd,
www.crucial.com/uk/ssd, or
www.crucial.com/eu/ssd to take advantage
of free online tools, such as the Crucial
SSD Advisor tool, which allows customers to
find a compatible SSD simply by choosing
their system make and model from a drop-down
menu. Additionally, an online flash-based
installation guide demonstrates how easy it
is to install a Crucial M225 SSD.
Crucial SSDs
are available in 64GB (currently $169.99),
128GB (currently $329.99), and 256GB
(currently $599.99) capacities online atwww.crucial.com/ssd,
www.crucial.com/uk/ssd, or
www.crucial.com/eu/ssd, and through
select channel partners. The new Crucial
SSDs also feature a five year limited
warranty.
About Lexar Media
Lexar Media is a leading designer,
manufacturer, and marketer of NAND flash and
DRAM memory products under the Lexar® and
Crucial® brand names. Lexar offers products
in all major flash and DRAM memory
categories, including consumer and
enterprise-level USB flash drives,
industry-leading memory cards for
photography, and all popular form factors of
memory cards for mobile devices. For
computers, Lexar also offers a full range of
DRAM computer memory upgrades for PCs and
Mac® systems, and solid state drives (SSDs).
An industry leader in innovative, patented
flash memory technology, Lexar is vertically
integrated with Micron Technology, Inc., one
of the largest semiconductor manufacturers
worldwide.
For more information about
Lexar, visit
www.lexar.com. For more information
about Crucial products, visit
www.crucial.com,
www.crucial.com/uk or
www.crucial.com/eu. Lexar Media, Inc. is
a subsidiary of Micron Technology, Inc.
Lexar Media is a division of Micron Europe
Limited, a division of Micron Semiconductor
Asia Pte. Ltd., and a division of Micron
Japan, Ltd.
Lexar.
When Memory Matters.™
About Micron
Micron Technology, Inc., is one of the
world's leading providers of advanced
semiconductor solutions. Through its
worldwide operations, Micron manufactures
and markets DRAM, NAND flash memory, CMOS
image sensors, other semiconductor
components, and memory modules for use in
leading-edge computing, consumer,
networking, and mobile products. Micron's
common stock is traded on the New York Stock
Exchange (NYSE) under the MU symbol. To
learn more about Micron Technology, Inc.,
visit
www.micron.com.
Seagate Releases World's Fastest, Highest
Capacity and Most Efficient Cheetah
Enterprise Drives Into the Channel
Leading distributors and system builders are
ready for 3.5-inch mission-critical hard
drive designed for long-term business
sustainability and reduced TCO
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., July 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Seagate (NASDAQ: STX) today announced it
is now shipping its technology-leading
Cheetah(R) 15K.7 enterprise-class hard
drives into the worldwide distribution
channel. As the highest performing, highest
capacity 3.5-inch mission-critical hard
drive with best-in-class reliability for
Tier 1 environments, the Cheetah 15K.7 drive
is ideal for a wide range of server and
storage applications. With the Cheetah 15K.7
hard drive, Seagate's technology leadership
moves firmly past the competition as it
delivers the industry's first 15K-rpm drive
to reach the 600GB capacity point while
providing record reliability of 1.6 million
hours MTBF.
The Cheetah 15K.7 drive is available with
the latest 6Gb/s SAS or 4Gb/s FC interfaces,
and includes Seagate PowerTrim(TM)
technology, which dynamically reduces power
consumption. Together, these features enable
system builders to deliver lower-cost,
multi-drive servers and storage systems,
making the Cheetah 15K.7 ideal for use in
environments ranging from small and
medium-sized businesses to the largest
enterprises.
"Bell Micro's customers continue to
require added capacity and performance for
their server and storage systems, but many
also must focus on finding ways to lower a
system's total cost of ownership (TCO) or
easily integrate new solutions using
existing platforms," said Joe Cousins, vice
president of Marketing at Bell
Microproducts. "We're pleased to now offer
the Seagate(R) Cheetah(R) 15K.7 family of
drives that fill these critical needs. For
users looking for the most advanced
technology to create new premium systems, or
those who are looking to extend the life of
their existing systems, the Cheetah(R) 15K.7
delivers the low TCO and promise of easy
integration for businesses of all sizes."
Cheetah hard drives are the standard for
existing enterprise systems. Cheetah drives
are aimed directly at enabling businesses to
sensibly grow and scale as their information
needs continue, while at the same time
providing the reliability required to avoid
costly interruption or downtime.
LSI 3ware SATA RAID
Controllers Add Support for Intel Solid
State Drives LSI controller cards enhance performance
of solid state drives in tiered storage
networks and ease integration with existing
hard drives
MILPITAS, Calif., July 7, 2009 – LSI
Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced the
release of new controller firmware for its
3ware® 9650SE SATA RAID controller cards
which provides support for Intel® X25-E
Extreme SATA Solid State Drives (SSDs). The
firmware upgrade is designed to provide full
compliance with the Intel SSDs for servers,
storage and high-end workstations.
Intel X25-E Extreme SSDs are based on
single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash
technology to offer fast read and write
times as well as high reliability. The LSI™
3ware 9650SE PCI Express to SATA RAID
controllers complement the Intel drives with
high-performance and high-reliability
hardware RAID protection.
“LSI controller cards play a pivotal role in
maximizing solid state drive performance and
protecting existing investments in hard disk
drives,” said Brent Blanchard, director of
Worldwide Channel Sales and Marketing, LSI.
“Multiple drive types can be supported by a
single 3ware controller while maintaining
performance, which makes it easier and more
cost effective to incorporate SSDs into
existing enterprise SAS and SATA system
environments.”
LSI offers a broad portfolio of 3ware RAID
controllers, including a full line of
low-profile SAS/SATA cards and a complete
family of SATA cards with 2 to 24 ports. The
3ware RAID management interface and software
suite provide users with a simplified
configuration experience regardless of
storage interface.
The LSI 3ware 9650SE SATA controllers are
available in a variety of port
configurations through the LSI worldwide
network of distributors, integrators and
VARs. New and existing customers may upgrade
to the LSI 3ware 9.5.2 firmware for free at
www.3ware.com/support/download.asp. More
information is available at the LSI Channel
Gateway (www.lsichannelgateway.com).
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading
provider of innovative silicon, systems and
software technologies that enable products
which seamlessly bring people, information
and digital content together. The company
offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and
services including custom and standard
product ICs, controller cards, systems and
software that are trusted by the world's
best known brands to power leading solutions
in the Storage and Networking markets. More
information is available at
www.lsi.com.
SEAGATE®
INTRODUCES CONSTELLATION™: ALL-STAR ENTERPRISE
HARD DRIVES WITH THE WORLD’S HIGHEST CAPACITY
AND POWER EFFICIENCY
The Constellation family includes
2.5-inch nearline hard drive with lowest
enterprise power consumption and
record-setting 3.5-inch 7200-rpm 2TB hard
drive for nearline Tier 2 enterprise
applications
SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif. — February 2, 2009 —
Seagate (NASDAQ:STX) today introduced its
Constellation™ family of new enterprise storage
solutions for Tier 2 nearline storage
applications. The two new drive models, the
2.5-inch Constellation and the 3.5-inch
Constellation ES hard drives, include a
combination of features that enable high
capacities, increased power efficiency,
enterprise-class reliability, and data security.
Both drives also include PowerChoice™ from
Seagate, which decreases power consumption by up
to 54% for record power savings in enterprise
environments.
“The need for greater storage capacity will
continue to expand in multiple directions and
dimensions, but there will be an increasing
scrutiny of all storage system purchases, with
an eye to decreasing power consumption,
footprint, and cost per GB in unprecedented
ways,” said John Monroe, a research vice
president at Gartner. “Performance will not be
ignored, but a flexible balance of capacity,
cost per GB, power and speed will become more
crucial in fulfilling end-user storage demands
at varied price points.”
Constellation
The Constellation 2.5-inch hard drive is offered
in capacities of 160GB and 500GB with both 3
Gbps SATA and new SAS 2.0 interface running at
6Gb/s speeds. As the first SAS 2.0 nearline
drive, the Constellation hard drive enables
larger external storage topologies, 100% faster
data throughput and higher signal strength over
greater distances – dramatically increasing
storage scalability. The Constellation family
will begin shipping this quarter.
“Dell recognizes that increased capacity and
high-reliability are key to enabling further
adoption of small form factor storage within the
enterprise. With new capacities, small form
factor drives afford customers performance and
power gains within the same rack space,” said
Praveen Asthana, director of Dell Storage.
“As an industry-leader in storage, Dell is
pleased to partner with Seagate and be one of
the first companies to offer the Constellation
family of drives to our customers.”
Constellation ES
The 3.5-inch Constellation ES hard drive will be
available in 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities, and
with an enterprise-class SAS interface as well
as a SATA version, and provides best-in-class
capacity and performance. As the world’s only
7200-rpm 3.5-inch hard drive providing up to 2TB
of storage, the record-setting capacity of
Constellation ES hard drives are ideal for
3.5-inch based external storage architectures.
With Constellation ES hard drives, customers
don’t have to sacrifice performance in order to
gain the highest capacities. The Constellation
ES hard drive will ship in calendar Q3.
“Xyratex continues to work closely with
Seagate to advance storage system innovation to
meet both the performance and capacity-based
market requirements,” said Todd Gresham,
executive vice president and general manager of
the Networked Storage Solutions Division for
Xyratex. The new Constellation family of
products compliments Xyratex’s philosophy of
delivering cost-effective enterprise-class,
energy efficient storage solutions that help
provide our customers the long-term investment
protection they demand.”
With Seagate’s innovative PowerChoice
technology, both Constellation hard drive models
deliver the highest power-reduction savings ever
offered in an enterprise-class HDD, and provide
flexible, user-manageable options to deliver
power savings without sacrificing performance,
data integrity, or reliability. In addition, the
Constellation family of drives are backed with
field-proven, enterprise-grade reliability and
rated at a full 1.2 million hours MTBF.
Delivering on Seagate’s commitment to add
security features throughout its product
portfolio, the Constellation family of drives
are offered with optional self-encrypting drive
(SED) technology and provide government-grade
data security through the drive’s life cycle.
SED technology makes drive retirement and
disposal easy by eliminating the need for the
numerous manual processes involved which are
often incomplete, complex, expensive, or prone
to error. For critical information that must
remain secure, and because all systems are
eventually retired, whether being relocated,
re-purposed, or disposed of, the information on
a Constellation SED hard drive remains AES-safe.
Seagate Unified Storage™ architecture
delivers long-term business sustainability
Historically, the variety of drive interfaces,
form factors and now, security solutions, can
add complexity and increase costs for both IT
professionals and OEMs. Making the wrong choice
today creates storage
islands in the data center with no easy path for
upgrades – further complicating an already
complex environment. The Seagate Unified Storage
architecture converges best-of-breed
technologies (Serial
Attached SCSI, Small Form Factor and
Self-Encrypting Drives) into a foundation for
powerful yet simple storage that boosts business
and operational efficiency while reducing cost
and complexity.
The Seagate Unified Storage architecture
delivers a storage foundation for companies that
are proactively ensuring the long-term
sustainability of their business through
best-in-class IT practices. Companies will avoid
the risk of impacting their own product quality,
competitiveness, or profitability when their
storage system infrastructure and data center
footprint is optimized across power, cooling and
performance density. Because the role of small
form factor drives are important to the
long-term efficiency and sustainability of any
data center enterprise, Seagate will be
extending this component into all tiers of its
Unified Storage architecture in the future.
“With tightening IT budgets, Seagate is
committed to delivering enterprise-class
nearline storage solutions that ensure business
sustainability by optimizing resources, reducing
environment, energy or social impact and
satisfying customer requirements without
compromising performance,” said Sherman Black,
senior vice president, Seagate Core Marketing
and Strategy. “These new Constellation HDDs
provide business continuity in the data center
by offering the highest capacities, the lowest
power, and the latest in enterprise-class data
integrity with SAS 2.0 and AES government-grade
encryption.”
For more information about the Constellation
family of drives, in addition to Seagate’s other
enterprise storage solutions, visit
www.seagate.com.
About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design,
manufacture and marketing of hard disk drives
and storage solutions, 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, with the goal of being the
time-to-market leader 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 http://www.seagate.com.
Seagate, Seagate Technology
and the Wave logo are registered trademarks of
Seagate Technology LLC in the United States
and/or other countries. Constellation,
PowerChoice and Unified Storage are either
trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate
Technology LLC or one of its affiliated
companies in the United States and/or other
countries. All other trademarks or registered
trademarks are the property of their respective
owners. When referring to hard drive capacity,
one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion bytes
and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion
bytes. Your computer’s operating system may use
a different standard of measurement and report a
lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed
capacity is used for formatting and other
functions, and thus will not be available for
data storage. Seagate reserves the right to
change, without notice, product offerings or
specifications.
# # #
PRESS RELEASE
February 3, 2009
WD® LAUNCHES INDUSTRY'S FIRST
2 TB HARD DRIVES WD's Eco-friendly, Cool and
Quiet, WD Caviar® Green™ Drive Marks the
Largest Capacity Hard Drive in the Industry
LAKE FOREST, Calif. - Jan. 27, 2009 - WD
(NYSE: WDC) today announced the first 2
terabyte (TB) hard drive - the world's
highest capacity drive and the latest
addition to WD's popular, environmentally
friendly, cool and quiet, WD® Caviar® Green™
hard drive family. This new 3.5-inch
platform is based on WD's industry-leading
500 GB/platter technology (with 400 Gb/in2
areal density) with 32 MB cache, producing
drives with capacities of up to 2 TB.
"While some in the industry wondered if
the end consumer would buy a 1 TB drive,
already some 10 percent of 3.5-inch hard
drive sales are at the 1 TB level or higher,
serving demand from video applications and
expanding consumer media libraries," said
Mark Geenen, President of Trend Focus. "The
2 TB hard drives will continue to satisfy
end user's insatiable desire to store more
data on ever larger hard drives."
WD Caviar Green is one of the most
successful product lines in the company's
recent history with its third-generation
GreenPower™ technology, now providing 2 TB
of proven reliable storage for today's
high-resolution files and graphics. WD
Caviar Green drives are designed for use in
USB/FireWire®/eSATA external hard drives,
desktop computers, workstations, and desktop
RAID environments.
"Saving power without sacrificing storage
capacity is what consumers want, and what
many businesses are requiring today. With
the launch of the new WD Caviar Green 2 TB
hard drive, customers receive the additional
capacities needed to operate today's highly
advanced programs and high-resolution
digital files while using less power than
typical drives with similar performance and
capacities," said Jim Morris, WD senior vice
president and general manager of client
systems.
Rock Solid Mechanical Architecture, Cool,
Quiet Hard Drives A number of advanced
technologies enable the speed, capacity and
performance of WD's Caviar Green 1.5 TB and
2 TB hard drives. Those include: StableTrac™,
which secures the motor shaft at both ends
to reduce system-induced vibration and
stabilize platters for accurate tracking
during read and write operations1;
IntelliPower™, which fine-tunes the balance
of spin speed, transfer rate and caching
algorithms designed to deliver both
significant power savings and solid
performance; IntelliSeek™, which calculates
optimum seek speeds to lower power
consumption, noise, and vibration; and
NoTouch™ ramp load technology, which is
designed to ensure the recording head never
touches the disk media resulting in
significantly less wear to the recording
head and media, as well as better drive
protection while in transit.
Availability and Pricing The WD Caviar
Green 2 TB is available at select resellers
and distributors. MSRP for the WD Caviar
Green 2 TB hard drives (model WD20EADS) is
$299.00 USD. More information about WD
Caviar Green desktop drives may be found on
the company's Web site at
http://wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=576
About WD WD, one of the storage
industry's pioneers and long-time leaders,
provides products and services for people
and organizations that collect, manage and
use digital information. The company
produces reliable, high-performance hard
drives that keep users' data accessible and
secure from loss. WD applies its storage
expertise to consumer products for external,
portable and shared storage applications. WD
was founded in 1970. The company's storage
products are marketed to leading systems
manufacturers, selected resellers and
retailers under the Western Digital® and WD
brand names. Visit the Investor section of
the company's Web site (www.westerndigital.com)
to access a variety of financial and
investor information.
1 The StableTrac feature is only included
on the 2 TB model.
###
Western Digital, WD, the
WD logo and WD Caviar are registered
trademarks of Western Digital Technologies,
Inc. in the US and other countries; Green,
IntelliPower, IntelliSeek, NoTouch,
StableTrac, and GreenPower are trademarks of
Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All other
trademarks herein are property of their
respective owner. As used for storage
capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million
bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion
bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion
bytes. Total accessible capacity varies
depending on operating environment. As used
for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) =
1,048,576 bytes.
