Company Milestones

The following are significant dates in Seagate's history.

January 2006	Named Forbes Magazine 2006 Company of the Year
October 2005	New LG High Definition Plasma TV Has Built-In Seagate Hard Drive
September 2005	Seagate acquires Mirra Inc
August 2005	Seagate wins “Company of the Year” and “Best Product Innovation” ARC Awards from VarBusiness Magazine
July 2005	Seagate ships quarterly record 27.3 million hard disc drives
June 2005	Seagate does it again…drives innovation with 10 new, groundbreaking hard disc drives: First perpendicular recording 2,5-inch drive, and first drive with Full Disc Encryption data security
June 2005	U.S. Congress Recognizes Seagate Engineer for Advancing Society, Culture and Commerce
May 2005	Seagate honored for advancement of women in the workplace
March 2005	Seagate ships 10 millionth 15K RPM disc drive
February 2005	PC World names Seagate Barracuda 7200 Best Hard Drive
December 2004	Seagate CTO Mark Kryder honored as Top Technology Innovator by VARBusiness Magazine
June 2004	Seagate launches 12 new products -- an unprecedented array of disc drives to target a wide range of applications like MP3 players, DVR, consumer electronics, notebook computers, PCs, servers and corporate data centers.
February 2004	Seagate announces Savvio, the industry's first 2.5-inch enterprise disc drive
October 2003	Seagate recognized by Sun as 2003's Best Disc Drive company
September 2003	Seagate announces highest areal density at 100GB per platter
August 2003	VARBusiness magazine names Seagate #1 in Innovation and Enterprise disc drives
June 2003	Seagate enters notebook market with Momentus 2.5-inch disc drive
January 2003	Seagate ships record 18.3 million disc drives in quarter ended December 2002
December 2002	Seagate re-enters the public market (NYSE: STX)
November 2002	Seagate delivers industry's first Serial ATA disc drive -- the Barracuda ATA V
November 2002	Seagate demonstrates perpendicular recording areal density of 100 gigabits per square inch
August 2002	Seagate successfully demos HAMR technology - HAMR aims to increase areal density by more than 100 times
May 2002	Seagate announces Cheetah 15K.3 - its third generation 15,000 RPM drive one year ahead of the competition
October 2001	Microsoft Xbox ships with Seagate disc drives
August 2001	VARBusiness Magazine names Seagate Top Hard Drive Vendor in reader poll
March 2001	Second–generation Cheetah X15 introduced – one year ahead of the competition
November 2000	Seagate introduces the world's highest capacity disc drive – Barracuda 180 Gbyte
February 2000	Seagate introduces world's first 15,000 RPM disc drive – Cheetah X15
January 2000	DISHPlayer 500 integrates Seagate disc drives – Seagate is world's largest digital video recorder and Consumer data storage provider
April 1999	Seagate ships its 250 millionth disc drive
August 1998	Seagate Research is established in Pittsburgh, PA – USA
March 1998	Seagate produces one billionth magnetic recording heads
October 1997	Company introduces world's first fibre channel interface disc drive
October 1997	Seagate introduces first 7,200 RPM, Ultra ATA drive for desktop computers
October 1996	Seagate introduces the first 10,000 RPM drive – Cheetah family
February 1996	Seagate and Conner Peripherals merge to form the world's largest independent storage device manufacturer
May 1993	Seagate ships 50 millionth disc drive
November 1992	Seagate first–to–market with shock–sensing technology for 2.5–inch disc drives
November 1992	Seagate introduces the first 7,200 RPM disc drive
1989	Seagate acquires Imprimis Technology – High Capacity Drives and Components
1980	Seagate builds industry's first 5.25–inch hard drive
1979	Seagate founded as disc drive manufacturer