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Table of Contents
Products
We offer a broad range of 3.5-inch form factor rigid disc drive products for the enterprise, desktop and consumer electronics sectors of
the rigid disc drive industry. During fiscal year 2004, we introduced the Momentus family of 2.5-
inch rigid disc drives for notebook computers.
Also, during fiscal year 2004, we introduced Savvio, our first 2.5-inch enterprise disc drive. We offer more than one product within each
product family, and differentiate products on the basis of price/performance and form factor, or the dimensions of the rigid disc drive.
Historically, our industry has been characterized by continuous and significant advances in technology, which contributed to rapid product life
cycles; however, based upon the recent pace of new product introductions, we believe that our industry is currently in a period in which the rate
of increases in areal density, which is the storage capacity per square inch on a disc, is lower than the rate of the last several years, resulting in
longer product life cycles. We list in the table below our main current product offerings.
In June 2004, we announced 12 new rigid disc drive products which will be introduced in fiscal year 2005, including:
Product Name
Markets
Served
Storage Capacities
(gigabytes)
Rotation Speed
(RPM)
Interface
Cheetah SFF 10K.1 (Savvio) Enterprise 36 and 73 10,000 SCSI/Fibre Channel
Cheetah 10K.6
Enterprise
36, 73 and 46
10,000
SCSI/Fibre Channel
Cheetah 15K.3 Enterprise 18, 36 and 73 15,000 SCSI/Fibre Channel
Barracuda 7200.7 Desktop/Consumer Electronics 40, 60, 80, 120, 160 and 200 7,200 ATA/SATA
U Series X
Desktop/Consumer Electronics
10 and 20
5,400
ATA
U-9 Series Consumer Electronics 40, 80, 120, and 160 5,400 ATA
Momentus Mobile Computing 20, 30 and 40 5,400/4,200 ATA
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our first 1-inch form factor rigid disc drive, which will be primarily used in hand held consumer electronics devices such as digital
audio players and digital cameras;
•
larger capacity 3.5-inch form factor rigid disc drives to address the market for larger capacity personal video recorders and home
media storage devices and near
-
line enterprise applications;
•
additional capacity models of our 2.5-inch form factor Momentus mobile computing rigid disc drive, which will more completely
address our customers
’
mobile computing disc drive requirements; and
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new versions of our current Barracuda and Cheetah desktop and enterprise rigid disc drives.
Many of these new product will address disc drive applications for which we currently have no product offerings.
Enterprise Storage
Cheetah Family . Commercial uses for Cheetah rigid disc drives include Internet and e-commerce servers, data mining and data
warehousing, mainframes and supercomputers, department/enterprise servers and workstations, transaction processing, professional video and
graphics and medical imaging.
Savvio Family. Savvio is our new 2.5-inch enterprise disc drive. This disc drive is our first enterprise disc drive in the smaller 2.5-inch
form factor and, as such, allows the installation of more disc drives per square foot, thus facilitating faster access to data.
Desktop Storage
U Series X and Barracuda ATA/SATA Family. The U Series X and Barracuda ATA/SATA family of rigid disc drives are used in desktop
applications, workstations and low-end server applications.
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