Seagate holds lead in Serial ATA market share

By Our Corporate Bureau | 17 Dec 2003

New Delhi: Seagate Technology announced it has shipped more than 1.5 million Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives, more than twice the number of its nearest competitor. Seagate SATA drives have been adopted by all the top ten global OEMs. Seagate still offers the only native SATA hard drive technology on the market, with no PATA-to-SATA translator bridge chip that can reduce performance or limit native features.

Only Seagate''s native SATA architecture is capable of supporting native command queuing (NCQ) and staggered spin-up, both critical features to new entry-server and network bulk storage applications. And as the leading developer of SATA technology, Seagate is well positioned to deploy next-generation SATA II features.