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The world today runs on information. Every time you access the Internet, hit “send”, trade a stock online, use an ATM or even watch a Hollywood blockbuster movie with computer-generated special effects, you create, access and share tremendous amounts of digital information. Seagate is committed to developing the technology and manufacturing the products that help make it all happen.

PRODUCT FEATURES:

Best-in-class environmental specification and reliability features;

New perpendicular recording technology enables higher areal density, fewer moving parts and increased dependability;

Adaptive Fly Height offers consistent read/write performance from the beginning to the end of your computing workload;

Clean Sweep automatically calibrates your drive;

Directed Offline Scan runs diagnostics when storage access is not needed;

RoHS Directive-compliant design assures you an environmentally conscious product;

Enhanced G-Force Protection defends against handling damage;

Seagate SoftSonic motor enables whisper-quiet operation.

This product is designed for MD: special RAID edition

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Ideal for allowing your digital content room to breathe, FreeAgent Desktop Drive features a vast capacity with the footprint no bigger than a stapler - just plug it in and you’re ready to go!

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The Fujitsu MAP series disk drives deliver industry leading performance and set uncompromising standards, with an average seek time of 4.5 ms. Technology ownership enables the Fujitsu group to control every aspect of the product, including initial design, key components, critical processes, final assembly and test. The Fujitsu group’s expertise in key components and strong commitment to excellence work together to produce products that deliver not only outstanding performance and reliability, but also low overall cost of ownership.

Higher areal density improves reliability by reducing the total number of platters and read/write heads (moving parts) required to achieve a given capacity. Additional benefits to lower head and platter counts include improved performance and reductions in power consumption, acoustic noise, and cost per MB. The Mean-Time-Between-Failure (MTBF) specification of 1,200,000 hours results in long term reliable operation. The MAP series disk drives provide outstanding storage performance for computing platforms such as workstations, network file servers and enterprise servers. A rotation speed of 10,025 RPM reduces the average rotational latency to 2.99 ms. Minimizing rotational latency and seek times are the key factors that improve system response time in demanding transaction processing applications such as banking, POS and/or reservation systems.

The MAP series disk drives achieve an amazing 107MB/s peak internal data transfer rate, providing a superior solution for the most demanding digital audio/video applications such as non-linear editing and playback systems. Through the commitment in research and development, the Fujitsu group has gained critical insights and expertise on the core components required for next-generation drive technology.

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Western Digital’s WD Caviar 7200 RPM EIDE hard drives are the performance champions for advanced desktop personal computers. The latest drives achieve world-class areal densities and a wide range of drive capacities ideal for storing Internet downloads, music and video files. WD Caviar 7200 RPM drives offer an Ultra ATA/100 interface, low seek times and up to 100 MB/s data transfer rates, all of which add up to a fast data delivery system. To protect your data, we include Data Lifeguard, WD’s exclusive combination of hardware features and software utilities. Data Lifeguard includes embedded features that guard your data and software tools that make installation, configuration and diagnostics simple and worry-free. Speed, performance and reliability are the key features of the WD Caviar 7200 RPM series.

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