July
30


WD announced today the WD VelociRaptor 10,000 RPM enterprise SATA hard drives in an enterprise-class 2.5-inch form factor for blade servers and 1U and 2U rack servers. The newest WD VelociRaptor hard drive is built for business-critical applications with enterprise-class mechanics and packs up to 300 GB of capacity into the enterprise small form factor bays, while consuming 35 percent less power than the previous-generation WD Raptor drive. The new 2.5-inch WD VelociRaptor drive is the only drive available that can offer server customers the flexibility of integrating SATA technology while benefiting from server-class performance and reliability.

WD VelociRaptor 2.5-inch 300GB SATA Hard Drive can hold up to 85,700 digital photos, 75,000 songs (MP3), 130 hours of DVD quality video and 36 hours of HD video. WD VelociRaptor 2.5-inch hard drives are designed and manufactured to enterprise-class standards to provide high reliability in high duty cycle environments, resulting in the highest available reliability rating of any SATA drive at 1.4 million hours MTBF.

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June
3


Seagate today introduced the Savvio 10K.3 hard drive – the world’s highest-capacity, small form factor 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive. This latest generation of 2.5-inch drive from Seagate offers 70% lower power and greater than 60% performance density over traditional 3.5-inch drives. Seagate’s Savvio 10K.3 drive is the industry’s first 2.5-inch self-encrypting enterprise drive with government-grade Full Disk Encryption (FDE) data protection. The Seagate Savvio 10K.3 drive leads the industry with 300GB of capacity, reliability of 1.6 million hours MTBF, and an advanced SAS 2.0 (6 Gb/sec data rate) interface.

Major OEM evaluations of the Savvio 10K.3 drive have begun. General product availability is planned for the second half of calendar year 2008.

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June
3


At merely 5mm thick, Super Talent Micro-SATA SSDs are slimmer than most 1.8-inch hard drives, and hold up to 120GB of data. In terms of performance, power consumption, and shock and vibration resistance the MasterDrive KX is substantially better than hard drives. Built with MLC NAND Flash, the Super Talent MasterDrive KX is offered in 30GB, 60GB and 120GB capacities. With 0.1ms access time and 120MB/sec and 40MB/sec max sequential read and write speeds, these SSDs provide lightning fast access to files.

The Micro-SATA connector in a 1.8-inch form factor makes these SSDs an ideal upgrade for Ultra Mobile PCs The new Super Talent Micro-SATA MasterDrive KX SSDs are available in capacities of 30GB, 60GB, and 120GB and are priced at $299, $449, and $679 respectively.

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