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Malaysia, Northern Ireland, Singapore, Thailand and in the United States in Minnesota. In addition, third parties manufacture and assemble
components and disk drive assemblies for us in various countries worldwide.
Suppliers of Components and Industry Constraints. There are a limited number of independent suppliers of components, such as
recording heads and media, available to disk drive manufacturers. Vertically integrated disk drive manufacturers, who manufacture their own
components, are less dependent on external component suppliers than less vertically integrated disk drive manufacturers.
Commodity and Other Manufacturing Costs. The production of disk drives requires rare earth elements, precious metals, scarce alloys
and industrial commodities, which are subject to fluctuations in prices and the supply of which has at times been constrained. In addition to
increased costs of components and commodities, volatility in fuel costs may also increase our costs related to commodities, manufacturing and
freight. As a result, we may increase our use of ocean shipments to help offset any increase in freight costs.
Products
We offer a broad range of storage solutions, for the enterprise, datacenter, client compute and client non-compute applications. We offer
more than one product within each product category and differentiate products on the basis of price, performance, form factor, capacity,
interface, power consumption efficiency, security features like full disk encryption and instant encryption key replacement through our Instant
Erase technology, and other customer integration requirements. Our industry is characterized by continuous and significant advances in
technology which contribute to rapid product life cycles. We list our main current product offerings below.
Enterprise Storage
Enterprise Performance Family. Our 10,000 and 15,000 RPM Enterprise Performance Family disk drives feature increased throughput
and improved energy efficiency, targeted at high random performance server application needs. Performance 10,000 RPM HDDs ship in storage
capacities ranging from 300GB to 900GB, and our 15,000 RPM HDDs ship in storage capacities ranging from 146GB to 600GB.
Enterprise Capacity HDD Family. Our Enterprise Capacity disk drives ship in a 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factor and in storage
capacities of up to 6TB that clock in at 7,200 RPM speeds. These products are designed for bulk data storage and server environments that
require high capacity, enterprise reliability, energy efficiency and integrated security, SATA and SAS interfaces.
Enterprise Value HDD Family. Providing up to 3TB of SATA-based high capacity, 3.5-inch energy-efficient enterprise storage, the
Enterprise Value hard disk drive offers low-cost bulk storage designed for vast amounts of unstructured data in the cloud. It features low power
for energy efficient operations and ensures reliable operations in 24x7 multi-drive replicated environments.
Seagate Terascale HDD Family. Available in capacities up to 4TB in a 3.5-inch enterprise-class SATA hard drive, the Terascale HDD is
designed to provide data centers with the storage scalability they need to meet demands in low workload, 24x7 replicated environments.
Seagate 1200 SSD. Available in capacities up to 800GB, the 1200 SSD features 12GB per second SAS, and delivers the speed and
consistency needed for demanding enterprise storage and server applications.
Client Compute
Laptop and Mobile HDDs and SSHDs. Our family of laptop drives ship in a variety of form factors (5mm to 9.5mm drive height),
capacities (250GB to 2TB) and technologies (HDD and SSHD) to support
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