Fujitsu Announces Industry-leading Mobile Hard Disk Drive

Sydney, June 18, 2003

Fujitsu Australia announced today the availability of its new mobile hard disk drive (HDD), an 80GB, 5400rpm MHT-AH mobile drive in a 2.5" 9.5mm form factor. This follows the recent announcement of Fujitsu's next generation MHT series hard disk drives, the broadest range of 2.5" 4200rpm mobile HDD products in the industry. The MHT-AH is the latest mobile hard disk drive to support Fujitsu's goal of providing increased capacity drives in a reduced form factor allowing manufacturers to look beyond traditional notebook PCs to high-end mobile and server applications.

High areal densities of up to 69Gb/in², combined with Spin Valve GMR heads, GDT media, and MEEPRML read channel technologies enable these large-capacity hard disk drives to deliver outstanding performance. Fujitsu's new MHT-AH mobile hard disk drive also offers a 22 per cent improvement in average latency compared to current 4200rpm products. Buffer size is expanded to 8MB, allowing for high throughput and resulting in impressive performance improvement. The FDB spindle motor technology dramatically improves non-operating shock tolerance and decreases acoustic noise. With capacities of 40GB, 60GB and 80GB, a 5400rpm rotational speed, and a 2.5" form factor these hard disk drives are big enough to hold large multimedia presentations. The hard disk drives are fast enough to run them, and small enough to fit in today's compact mobile computers, notebooks, consumer electronic devices and server applications.

Fujitsu's general manager for peripheral products, Mike Yell commented that Fujitsu's cutting-edge disk technology, coupled with the increasing trend towards the manufacture of notebook systems by local OEM's, will ensure Fujitsu continues to increase its share of the Australasian market for 2.5" hard drives.

Technology

Fujitsu's MHT-AH series of mobile hard disk drives employ GDT (Glass Direct Texture) Media enabling nearly a 30% increase (comparing with Fujitsu's MHS series) in areal density of up to 69Gb/in2 and up to 40GB per disk while improving media resolution and noise reduction resulting in improved data integrity. Building on Fujitsu's mobile HDD technology leadership the MHT-AH series utilises Fujitsu's fourth generation of FDB (Fluid Dynamic Bearing) motor and Head Load Unload mechanism with Inertia Latch technology.

Specifications

As a result of Fujitsu's technology leadership and innovation the MHT-AH series provides industry-leading specifications that are critical for today's mobile computing applications:

• Non-Operating Shock of 900G (1ms)
• Operating Shock of 225G (2ms)
• Track to Track seek times of 1.5ms

Availability

Evaluation units will be available in Australia and New Zealand in July with full production units available September.