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Fujitsu Delivers Industry’s First Production-Ready Small Form Factor Serial Attached SCSI Hard Disk Drives

San Jose, CA, March 8, 2005 — Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc., one of the world’s leading suppliers of hard disk drives and computer peripherals, today announced that it has delivered the MAV2036RC 36GB hard disk drive and the MAV2073RC 73GB hard disk drive to leading storage manufacturers. This announcement marks the industry’s first production-ready small form factor (SFF) serial attached SCSI (SAS) 3Gb/second hard disk drives. The new SFF SAS configuration offers lower power consumption than competing hard disk drives with a mean-time-between-failure (MTBF) rating of 1.4 million power-on hours, suitable to meet demanding enterprise application requirements.

Fujitsu expects SAS to become the interface of choice for enterprise hard disk drives including the new 2.5" SFF enterprise hard disk drives. The new form factor, interface combination allows users to significantly increase I/O performance by increasing storage density while decreasing power consumption. The smaller footprint also allows for increased spatial efficiency for improved performance.

In December 2003, Fujitsu Limited delivered the first prototype SFF SAS hard disk drives to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) that offer advanced storage solutions requiring the increased performance associated with SAS. Due to the quality and flexibility of the original design and early collaboration Fujitsu has been able to deliver the SFF SAS production-ready hard disk drives ahead of the competition.

"By delivering small form factor SAS hard disk drives to the leading manufacturers, Fujitsu and our strategic partners are one step closer to offering new storage systems that incorporate the size, cost and performance advantages of next generation serial technology," said Joel Hagberg, vice president, Marketing and Business Development, Fujitsu Computer Products of America. "In the past year, Fujitsu has been working closely with strategic partners, participating in interoperability plugfests, and following an engineering timeline that ensures our customers are ready to deploy SAS in the enterprise in 2005."

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Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. conducts engineering and marketing activities in San Jose, CA and sales operations throughout the United States. Fujitsu Computer Products of America currently offers products and services including scanners and scanner maintenance, hard disk drives, and Magneto-Optical drives. Fujitsu Computer Products of America 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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