Apr 29, 2004
In its competitive review of hard disc drives, CHIP's reviewer recommended the Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160G ATA100, naming it "Editor's recommended PATA hard drive" and rewarding it the "Annual Award for Editor's Recommended Products" and winner in the 'heat/noise' and 'cost per platter' tests.
The Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus SATA 160G (8M) disc drive also won the "Best Value Product" award in CBI group's Family Computer's annual IT product survey and China Popular Computer World's "Recommended Product" award. In addition, Seagate was recognized by Chinabyte.com (Top Market Share award), Dostor.com (2003 Fist Choice for Hard Disc Drive), PCHome.net (2003 readers' choice), PC DIY (2003 Most Popular Brand).
"Over the years, we have witnessed Seagate's commitment to delivering best-in-class products and customer-centric approach to the business," said David Li, chairman of VST Group (HK) Limited. "As a company and for their products, Seagate continues to garner recognition. As strategic business partners, we are working closely with Seagate to continue providing best-in-class storage solutions for the IT market."
Seagate is the disc drive market leader and features the broadest range of disc drives, with interface options of ATA, Serial ATA (SATA), Ultra320 SSCI, and Fibre Channel. This comprehensive line of disc drives include products for both commercial and consumer desktop markets, high performance PCs and workstations, the expanding consumer electronics market, notebook computing and the entry-level server and mission-critical application segments.
A list of awards received over the last six months includes:
Publications | Awards/Recommendations |
POPSoft | Seagate ranked first in market share Readers' Choice award |
China Computer Education | Readers' Choice award |
Micro Computer | Reader's Top Choice - 2003 Top Application Award Barracuda 7200.7 Plus received Editor's Choice Award |
China Popular Computer World | Readers' Choice Award - 2003 Barracuda 7200.7 Plus 160G SATA received Recommended Product Award |
China Information World | First Choice Award Barracuda 7200.7 80G--Value for Money Award |
Chinabyte.com | Top Market Share Barracuda 7200.7 Plus received Editor's Choice Award |
Dostor.com | First Choice - Hard Disc Drive 2003 |
www.PCHome.net | Readers' Choice Award - 2003 |
CHIP | Reader's Most Reliable IT Brand (Hard Drive) 2003 Barracuda 7200.7 ATA received the Editor's Recommendation Barracuda 7200.7 160G ATA100 received the Annual Award for Editor's Recommended Products Barracuda 7200.7 200G ATA named Editor's Recommendation |
PC DIY | Most Popular Brand - 2003 Barracuda V (Plus) & Barracuda 7200.7 (Plus) both received Editor's Choice awards |
Cybers | Barracuda 7200.7 received summer's most recommended product - 2003 |
China Computer | Barracuda 7200.7 received Product of the Year 2003 Award |
CBI-Group's Family Computer | Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 160G received Editor's Choice award Barracuda 7200.7 Plus SATA 160G (8 M) received Best Value Product |
PCShow.net | Barracuda 7200.7 SATA 80G received Most Worthy Buy award |
Beareyes.com | Momentus received Editor's Choice award |
PC World China | Cheetah 15K.3 received Product of the Year Award 2003 |
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