SEAGATE OFFERS BROADEST RANGE OF DISC DRIVES TO CARRY WINDOWS 95 LOGO

Drives tested and approved by Microsoft for Windows 95 operation range from
2.5-inch Marathon drives to high-capacity 7,200-rpm 3.5-inch Barracuda
drives

SCOTTS VALLEY, CALIF. --August 2, 1995 -- Seagate Technology, Inc. (NYSE:
SEG) has compiled the broadest line of disc drives to pass Microsoft
Corp.'s "Designed for Windows 95" logo qualification program, assuring
OEMs, resellers and users of compatibility with the highly anticipated
next-generation personal computer operating system.

The testing, conducted by Microsoft's Compatibility Labs, verifies each
drive's compliance to Microsoft's specific functionality and installation
requirements. To date, more than ten Seagate products have been verified
by Microsoft to meet the software manufacturer's stringent performance
standards to operate properly in the Windows 95 environment.

Qualified Windows 95 products from Seagate range in capacity from 545
Mbytes to 4.3 Gbytes and are designed for applications extending from
desktop and laptop computer systems to server environments. Specifically,
those drives "Designed for Windows 95" include Seagate's 3.5-inch Medalist
and Decathlon drives with 16.6-Mbyte/sec Fast ATA-2 interfaces, which
feature capacity points of 545 Mbytes, 850 Mbytes, 1.08 Gbytes, and 1.27
Gbytes for desktop PCs. For notebook computers, Seagate's Marathon family
of 2.5-inch Fast ATA-2 disc drives provide high storage capacities while
complying to Microsoft Compatibility Labs' Windows 95 requirements.

Seagate's SCSI-based disc drives, which are also approved by Microsoft as
"Designed for Windows 95," take advantage of the Plug-and-Play attributes
of the new operating system. The Hawk 2LP drives provide SCSI-based
personal computer users with data storage capacities as high as 2.14
Gbytes and 5,400-rpm performance, making them ideal for mainstream SCSI
desktop applications. Seagate's higher-performance 7,200-rpm Barracuda 2LP
and Barracuda 4 disc drive families up to 4.3 Gbytes will also carry the
Windows 95 logo to provide both leading-edge performance and capacities to
high-end Windows 95 server and workstation environments.

"Windows 95 will usher in unprecedented storage requirements on the
mainstream PC market," said Phil Detwiler, Seagate's vice president of
World Wide Marketing. "The new and emerging applications that will follow
in the wake of the availability of Microsoft's new operating system will
push entry-level PC disc capacity requirements into the gigabyte range,
and Seagate is leading the disc drive industry by offering not only the
broadest line of disc drives available to the computer industry, but to
new and emerging mainstream system environments like Windows 95 PCs."

According to a recent Dataquest report,1more than 70 percent of all
magnetic disc drives currently in use offer capacities less than or equal
to 500 Mbytes. In line with the continuing demand for more storage
capacity, the typical amount of storage space necessary to contain the
Windows operating environment is expected to increase more than six-fold
with the debut of Windows 95, requiring many users to consider upgrading
lower-capacity storage devices.

Testing at Seagate facilities has determined that while the change in drive
performance between the Windows 3.1X and Windows 95 environment is
marginal, significant performance increases of up to 60 percent can be
achieved for such older units simply by upgrading the hard drive. Factors
contributing to this performance increase include the evolution of new
interface protocols previously unavailable to lower-capacity disc drives,
such as the industry-wide Fast ATA-2 and Fast SCSI-2 standards. All
Seagate models accepted by Microsoft as "Designed for Windows 95" take
advantage of one or more of these new interfaces, while providing full
backward-compatibility to older ATA (IDE) and SCSI standards.

(1) Source: Dataquest, May 15, 1995, "Rigid Disk Drives Market Statistics,"
Table 2-10
 
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