Seagate Introduces BlackArmor Family of Storage Solutions for Small Business

New Products include BlackArmor NAS 440 and BlackArmor NAS 420 storage servers
with up to 8TB of capacity

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., March 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Demonstrating its
ongoing commitment to provide small businesses with solutions that meet both
current and future storage needs, Seagate (Nasdaq: STX), the world's leading
provider of storage solutions, today announced a complete portfolio of
products designed to protect data for sustained business continuity and
optimum uptime. First introduced in 2008 as a portable Full Disk Encryption
drive, the new Seagate(R) BlackArmor(R) product line is the family name for a
suite of network-attached, workstation and portable storage solutions designed
to meet the digital asset management needs of small business professionals.

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Designed as a simple, easy-to-install and easy-to-manage solution for
businesses with little or no IT support, BlackArmor storage solutions are
perfect for small office environments with up to 50 employees as well as
self-employed professionals. Additionally, the BlackArmor line of solutions
provides software management tools that are compatible across the family,
providing a consistent user experience and future growth path with minimal
training or the need for additional support.

"With increasing economic pressures, small businesses and home offices may
become even more likely to have limited or no on-site IT support and many will
be reassessing their IT environments," said Ryan Brock, AMI Partners' vice
president of Channels. "Cost-effective, easy-to-use solutions that offer data
security and reliability along with a strategic growth path and single-vendor
support will be very attractive to this customer base."

The first two products to be announced for this new family of small business
storage solutions are the Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 and BlackArmor NAS 420
servers, which are designed to provide organizations with a centralized,
secure way to manage their business-critical information. Each is a four-bay
NAS device, populated with Seagate disk drives. In the case of the BlackArmor
NAS 420, it comes with two drives in a four drive chassis. The BlackArmor NAS
440 comes fully populated with four drives. Capacities vary from 2TB in the
BlackArmor NAS 420, to a maximum capacity of 8TB in the BlackArmor NAS 440.

Unparalleled Security, Accessibility and Peace of Mind
For companies of any size, keeping business data accessible and secure is
vital to maintaining the confidence of their customers, partners and
employees. Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 and Seagate BlackArmor NAS 420 network
storage servers help companies ensure they operate efficiently, while keeping
their business data secure, available, accessible and protected. Seagate's
years of experience developing robust, secure storage solutions offers
customers the right blend of features to meet immediate and future business
needs:

-- Ease of Use: Self-contained, out-of-the box solutions with on-board
LCD
Screen, displaying settings and status information - including event
alerts - and intuitive management utility for easy configuration and
data access;
-- Protection: Delivers continuous and automatic backup of
business-critical data on up to 50 networked computers(1) with
full-system backup and RAID options to help provide data protection
and
redundancy;
-- Security: Individual file to entire volume encryption with intuitive
software management for access control at file and folder level with
password protection and encryption; included bare metal restore and
recovery CD to protect against hardware failure.
-- Flexibility: Offers the ability to scale from two to four drive
configuration with two, four, six and eight terabytes of storage so
companies can pick the right solution to meet their business
requirements;
-- Accessibility: When away from the office, customers can access and
share business content securely from the road with an Internet browser
without any extra installs or software. Companies can invite
colleagues
and clients to access select files and folders without needing an FTP
site, while keeping their firewall intact and maintaining the security
of their network;
-- Continuity: Designed with hot swappable, user-serviceable drives and
RAID options to enhance performance and scalability, the BlackArmor
440
and 420 network storage servers help ensure business continuity. The
four USB ports can be can be used to attach external USB drives for
offsite rotation in order to guard against the consequences of natural
disasters; BlackArmor network storage servers also ship with an
external
power supply and user-serviceable fan to cover foreseeable failure
points and thus minimize downtime.
-- Investment Protection: Part of an all-inclusive small business
storage
portfolio, which offers interoperability amongst all products and
strategic storage growth path. Each customer's purchase has a
three-year limited warranty and the peace of mind of knowing their
business is backed by a storage industry leader.

Technical Specifications and Pricing
Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 and BlackArmor NAS 420 network servers support
Windows(R) XP, Windows(R) Vista and Mac OS(R) X 10.4.11 or later. Both network
servers can be purchased through channel partners and select retailers at the
following manufacturers' suggested retail prices (MSRP):

Seagate BlackArmor NAS 420 network servers - four-bay, two drive
configuration
$799.99 USD for 2TB
Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 network servers - four-bay, four drive
configuration
$1,199.99 USD for 4TB, $1,699.99 USD for 6TB and $1,999.99 USD for 8TB
scheduled available for May.

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More detailed information about the Seagate BlackArmor family of solutions can
be found at www.seagate.com/blackarmor.

About Seagate
Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacture and marketing of
hard disk drives and storage solutions, providing products for a wide-range of
applications, including Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, and Consumer
Solutions. Seagate's business model leverages technology leadership and
world-class manufacturing to deliver industry-leading innovation and quality
to its global customers, with the goal of being the time-to-market leader in
all markets in which it participates. The company is committed to providing
award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet the world's
growing demand for information storage. Seagate can be found around the globe
and at http://www.seagate.com

Seagate, Seagate Technology, the Wave logo, FreeAgent and BlackArmor are
trademarks or registered trademarks of Seagate Technology LLC or its
affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks
or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners. When
referring to hard drive capacity, one gigabyte, or GB, equals one billion
bytes and one terabyte, or TB, equals one trillion bytes. Your computer's
operating player may use a different standard of measurement and report a
lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity is used for
formatting and other functions, and thus will not be available for data
storage. Seagate reserves the right to change, without notice, product
offerings or specifications.

(1) Product ships with licenses for up to ten computers, additional
licenses can be purchased through Seagate.com.

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