Who is Seagate?

For over 21 years, Seagate has been developing the technology and manufacturing the products that help make digital information. When Seagate was founded in 1979, its hard disc drives helped create the PC revolution.

Today, the Company is helping to revolutionize the way we live, work and play by enabling the growth of the Internet, putting the world's information at your fingertips. And storage technology, Seagate's core business, has become the center of the new computing architecture.

Seagate's position as the world's largest manufacturer of disc drives, magnetic discs and read-write heads, and a leader in Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions and Server Appliances puts it at the heart of today's "information-centric" world. Seagate storage products are where the Internet lives, and the growth of the Web has led to worldwide demand for storage doubling every nine months.

Seagate's technology advantage has enabled the Company to consistently set and then shatter world records with the highest performing disc drives in the industry. And it also provides the highest capacity disc drive in the world, a 180 Gigabyte, 3.5-inch drive capable of storing information equivalent to a stack of typed pages three times the height of the Empire State Building.

Did You Know?

In FY2002 Seagate shipped:

• 1,959 Petabytes of ESG/PSG storage
  
• 10.2 million Enterprise drives, the share leader by 6.2 million drives
  
• More Enterprise drives than Maxtor, Fujitsu and IBM combined
  
• 1.2 million 15,000 RPM drives
• 44.8 million personal storage drives
  
• Over 2.4 million drives into CE applications
  

Seagate's ESG/PSG storage revenue in FY2002 was:

• 33% greater than Maxtor
  
• 178% greater than Western Digital
  
• More than IBM, Fujitsu, and Samsung combined