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Seagate Technology Company Milestones

The following are significant dates in Seagate's history.

May 2006

Seagate acquires Maxtor Corporation

April 2006

Introduces world's first 750GB disc drive

February 2006

Introduces world's first 12GB 1-inch disc drive

January 2006

Named Forbes Magazine 2006 Company of the Year

October 2005

New LG High Definition Plasma TV Has Built-In Seagate Hard Drive

September 2005

Seagate acquires Mirra Inc

August 2005

Seagate wins "Company of the Year" and "Best Product Innovation" ARC Awards from VarBusiness Magazine

July 2005

Seagate ships quarterly record 27.3 million hard disc drives

June 2005

Seagate does it again…drives innovation with 10 new, groundbreaking hard disc drives: First perpendicular recording 2,5-inch drive, and first drive with Full Disc Encryption data security

June 2005

U.S. Congress Recognizes Seagate Engineer for Advancing Society, Culture and Commerce

May 2005

Seagate honored for advancement of women in the workplace

March 2005

Seagate ships 10 millionth 15K RPM disc drive

February 2005

PC World names Seagate Barracuda 7200 Best Hard Drive

December 2004

Seagate CTO Mark Kryder honored as Top Technology Innovator by VARBusiness Magazine

June 2004

Seagate launches 12 new products -- an unprecedented array of disc drives to target a wide range of applications like MP3 players, DVR, consumer electronics, notebook computers, PCs, servers and corporate data centers.

February 2004

Seagate announces Savvio, the industry's first 2.5-inch enterprise disc drive

October 2003

Seagate recognized by Sun as 2003's Best Disc Drive company

September 2003

Seagate announces highest areal density at 100GB per platter

August 2003

VARBusiness magazine names Seagate #1 in Innovation and Enterprise disc drives

June 2003

Seagate enters notebook market with Momentus 2.5-inch disc drive

January 2003

Seagate ships record 18.3 million disc drives in quarter ended December 2002

December 2002

Seagate re-enters the public market (NYSE: STX)

November 2002

Seagate delivers industry's first Serial ATA disc drive -- the Barracuda ATA V

November 2002

Seagate demonstrates perpendicular recording areal density of 100 gigabits per square inch

August 2002

Seagate successfully demos HAMR technology - HAMR aims to increase areal density by more than 100 times

May 2002

Seagate announces Cheetah 15K.3 - its third generation 15,000 RPM drive one year ahead of the competition

October 2001

Microsoft Xbox ships with Seagate disc drives

August 2001

VARBusiness Magazine names Seagate Top Hard Drive Vendor in reader poll

March 2001

Second–generation Cheetah X15 introduced – one year ahead of the competition

November 2000

Seagate introduces the world's highest capacity disc drive – Barracuda 180 Gbyte

February 2000

Seagate introduces world's first 15,000 RPM disc drive – Cheetah X15

January 2000

DISHPlayer 500 integrates Seagate disc drives – Seagate is world's largest digital video recorder and Consumer data storage provider

April 1999

Seagate ships its 250 millionth disc drive

August 1998

Seagate Research is established in Pittsburgh, PA –USA

March 1998

Seagate produces one billionth magnetic recording heads

October 1997

Company introduces world's first fibre channel interface disc drive

October 1997

Seagate introduces first 7,200 RPM, Ultra ATA drive for desktop computers

October 1996

Seagate introduces the first 10,000 RPM drive – Cheetah family

February 1996

Seagate and Conner Peripherals merge to form the world's largest independent storage device manufacturer

May 1993

Seagate ships 50 millionth disc drive

November 1992

Seagate first–to–market with shock–sensing technology for 2.5–inch disc drives

November 1992

Seagate introduces the first 7,200 RPM disc drive

1989

Seagate acquires Imprimis Technology – High Capacity Drives and Components

1980

Seagate builds industry's first 5.25–inch hard drive

1979

Seagate founded as disc drive manufacturer



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