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• Seagate 's first 7,200-RPM ULTRA-ATA Hard-drive for performance MEDALIST PRO :

  • Seek times as fast as 9.5 msec and spindle speed of 7,200 RPM
  • New fluid bearing motor design for increased reliability and quiet operation
  • Burst data-transfer rates up to 33.3 Mbytes per second with Ultra ATA
  • 400,000-hour MTBF and 3 year limited warranty
  • 4.5 , 6.5 , 9.1 GB Formatted Capacity
  • Internal Transfer Rate up to 194 (Mbits/sec)
  • External Transfer Rate up to 33.3 (Mbytes/sec)
  • Average Sustained Transfer Rate 10.0 (Mbytes/sec)
  • Multisegmented Cache 512 (Kbytes)
  • Track-To-Track Seek 2.0 (msec)
  • Average Seek, Read/Write 9.5/10.5 (msec)
    

• Latest standart is ULTRA 2 WIDE SCSI at 80 MB/sec

• ATA-66 is coming replacing ATA-33/UDMA

• The UHD144's specifications include:
  • Internal configurations fitting standard 1-inch drive bays
  • External configurations utilizing parallel port or PC Card bay
  • Data transfer rates up to 33 times faster than a traditional floppy drive
  • Disk rotation speed: 1000rpm Average latency: 30ms
  • Power-up time: 2 seconds
  • Average track to track seek time: 5ms
  • Average seek time: 35ms
  • Sustained transfer rate to/from disk: 0.76MB/second

  The UHD144 employs a standard IDE/ATAPI interface and can be configured as a bootable device.

  No,It is not a HardDisk It is Your New Floppy Caleb Technology's UHD144 with the 144MB specialized media (manufactured by TDK), retailing for less than $10,.drive itself will cost less than $100

  Citing the usual concerns, (increased competition and decreased demand), Seagate announced it had lost a staggering $129M for its quarter ending April 3.