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Fujitsu's Enterprise Disk Drives Named Best 10K Performance For Servers By StorageReview.com

MAN Series Review Further Validates Fujitsu's Recent Allocation of Resources to the Enterprise Space

San Jose, CA, September 5, 2001 — Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. (FCPA), one of the leading suppliers of hard drives and computer peripherals, today announced that its enterprise 10,000 RPM MAN series disk drives "delivers best 10K performance for servers," according to a recent Safe Buy Award review conducted by StorageReview.com, an online resource for data pertaining to hard disk, CD-RW, and DVD-ROM drives, including specs, tests, and comparison engines. Fujitsu's MAN series, already recognized for delivering the industry's lowest levels of heat and noise, proved to provide the highest level of quality and performance in demanding database and file server environments, effectively servicing high-end workstations, transaction servers, and AV editing.

"Over the past few years, Fujitsu's line of 10K RPM drives have been quietly (both figuratively and literally) delivering excellent performance that contends for a performance crown," said Eugene Ra, editor and reviewer at StorageReview.com.

"It's in IOMeter that the MAN gets to flex its muscles," said Ra, who discovered that the MAN drive exceeds all competing products in critical IOMeter File Server and Database performance indexes by a minimum of 9 percent. The MAN drive also exceeds the Workstation Performance index by 3 percent against all competing products, according to Ra's review. Maxtor's Atlas 10K III came is second place, and Seagate's Cheetah 73LP trailed in third place in all three IOMeter categories.

In closing, Ra noted that the Fujitsu MAN series "is delivering performance where it matters," positioning the MAN drives as the ideal product when price and heat are notable variables. Additionally, Ra alludes to the excitement surrounding Fujitsu's recently released 15K MAM series, which is currently being reviewed by StorageReview.com.

"Fujitsu takes pride in building the highest performance SCSI drives available, and we are honored to be recognized by StorageReview.com," said Mitsuhiro Okada, senior director of market analysis, at FCPA. "The review award is another example of our expertise and innovation in the enterprise hard drive space, further validating our recent decision to focus our resources on this market segment."

To read the review of the Fujitsu MAN 3367 drive in its entirety, visit www.storagereview.com.

About Fujitsu's Enterprise Drives—The MAN Series

The MAN series disk drives provide a number of innovative features and set uncompromising standards, with capacity points up to 73.5GB and an average seek time of 4.5ms.  The series also features industry-leading areal density at 18GB per platter for all 10K RPM capacity points, full track seek time of 11 ms, single track seek time of .40 ms, average rotational latency of 2.99 ms, an expanded 8MB data cache, reduced acoustic levels, and a high-performance, dual-processor architecture that greatly improves response time in high-load, multi-tasking applications.

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About Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc.

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. (FCPA) conducts engineering and marketing activities in San Jose, CA and sales operations throughout the United States. FCPA's current product and service offerings include hard disk drives, tape drives, magneto-optical drives, scanners and scanner maintenance. FCPA is located at 2904 Orchard Parkway, San Jose, CA, 95134. For more information about Fujitsu products and services, call us at 800-626-4686 or 408-432-6333.
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About Fujitsu

Fujitsu is a leading provider of Internet-focused information technology solutions for the global marketplace. Its pace-setting technologies, best-in-class computing and telecommunications platforms, and worldwide corps of systems and services experts make it uniquely positioned to unleash the infinite possibilities of the Internet to help its customers succeed. Headquartered in Tokyo, Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported consolidated revenues of 5.48 trillion yen for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2001.
For more information, please see: http://www.fujitsu.com

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