High-performance, high-reliability disc drives.HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 1996 Intergraph Includes Seagate 4.35Gbyte Drives on Workstations, Servers Intergraph Computer Systems announced today that Seagate Technology's Barracuda barracuda, slender, elongated fish of tropical seas. Barracudas have long snouts and projecting lower jaws armed with large, sharp-edged teeth. They are ferocious, striking at anything that gleams, and are considered excellent game fishes. 4LP 4.35Gbyte disc drive will be available for all of Intergraph's Intel/Windows NT-based InterServe servers, as well as in its TD, TDZ TDZ The Dead Zone (movie) TDZ Touchdown Zone TDZ Temperature Danger Zone (food safety) TDZ Tvornica Duhana Zagreb (Croatian tobacco factory) TDZ thiazolidinediones , and StudioZ 2D/3D graphics workstations. The 1-inch high Barracuda 4LP drive provides superior performance for intensive computing tasks, making it ideal for workstations and file, workgroup, and enterprise servers. Because it provides greater capacity and performance, it will also be integrated into Intergraph's RAID subsystems. "Intergraph customers expect top performance and the best quality components in our server and workstation products," said Wade Patterson, president of Intergraph Computer Systems. "The inclusion of the Seagate Barracuda 4LP drive will assure our customers of the high capacity, fast data-transfer rates, and uninterrupted flow of data demanded by professional, compute-intensive applications." Gary Gentry Gary Edward Gentry (born October 6, 1946 in Phoenix, Arizona), is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball, who played seven seasons for the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves between 1969 and 1975. , executive director of product marketing for Seagate, said Intergraph's decision to include the Barracuda 4LP makes it one of the first hardware vendors to include this type of high-performance drive in its product lines. "With its early development of award-winning NT-based servers and workstations that use the Barracuda 4LP's advanced technology, Intergraph is providing some of the very first of a new breed of systems that deliver greatly increased performance," Gentry said. "We are pleased that Intergraph has chosen the Barracuda 4LP as a key element in fulfilling its goal to provide customers with the very best in performance, reliability, and quality." The Barracuda 4LP 4.35Gbyte drive that comes with Intergraph systems is part of a family of Seagate disc drives using magneto magneto: see generator. magneto Permanent-magnet alternating generator used mainly to produce electrical current for the ignition system in various types of internal-combustion engines, such as aircraft, marine, tractor, and motorcycle engines. resistive resistive /re·sis·tive/ (re-zis´tiv) pertaining to or characterized by resistance. (MR) heads. MR heads, which have separately optimized read and write elements, enable increased storage capacity on a small disc diameter. They also offer better off-track capability and an improved signal-to-noise ratio The ratio of the power or volume (amplitude) of a signal to the amount of unwanted interference (the noise) that has mixed in with it. Measured in decibels, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR or S/N) measures the clarity of the signal in a circuit or a wired or wireless transmission channel. , providing higher tracks per inch Tracks per inch (TPI) is a measure of magnetic resolution, in particular the number of individual tracks a floppy disk controller can use within a linear one-inch space.
The Barracuda 4LP uses Seagate's Advanced SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. Architecture II (ASA Asa (ā`sə), in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Abijah. He was a good king, zealous in his extirpation of idols. When Baasha of Israel took Ramah (a few miles N of Jerusalem), Asa bought the help of Benhadad of Damascus and II) technology, which streamlines the internal architecture and dramatically increases drive performance. ASA II is fully compatible with all industry-standard SCSI implementations, allowing for easy product and cross-platform migration when capacity or performance requirements change. The Barracuda 4LP also features on-the-fly error correction in both the header and data fields to maintain high performance in error situations. The Intergraph products enhanced by the Barracuda 4LP disc drives include: InterServe family of servers, based on Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. and the latest Pentium and Pentium Pro The sixth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 MHz were released. processors in a variety of configurations to give businesses of any size powerful, reliable servers to fit any computing need. The server product line includes the InterServe 600 family of enterprise, database, and application file servers; InterServe Web Servers, which are bundled with complete solutions for Intranet and Internet computing; and InterServe PrePress Servers, which are optimized for the desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes, and pre-press industries. TD(TM) Personal Workstations, which combine powerful graphics accelerators with single, dual, or quad 200Mhz Pentium Pro processors for 2D/3D CAD production and demanding publishing graphics operations, eliminating the bottlenecks that often occur in competing systems. TDZ(TM) 3D Graphics Workstations, which combine Windows NT with single, dual, or quad Pentium Pro processors to provide RISC/UNIX-class performance with the openness and ease-of-use of PCs. The TDZ 3D Graphics Workstations include Intergraph's industry-leading RealiZm line of OpenGL(R) 3D graphics accelerators for stunning realism and fluid motion in models and computer generated images (CGI CGI in full Common Gateway Interface. Specification by which a Web server passes data between itself and an application program. Typically, a Web user will make a request of the Web server, which in turn passes the request to a CGI application program. ). Pricing and availability The Seagate Barracuda 4LP disc drives are available immediately. Customers can also get more information on the Seagate Barracuda at Fall Comdex in Las Vegas, November 18-22, at Intergraph's Booth H-1922. For more detailed price, configuration, and additional sales information on Intergraph's InterServe servers and TD, TDZ, and StudioZ graphics workstations, customers can call 800-763-0242. Intergraph Background Information Intergraph Computer Systems is a world leader in building high-performance servers based on Windows NT and Intel Pentium processors as well as 3D graphics technology, products, and services. Intergraph develops, manufactures, sells, and supports computer systems for the creative and technical desktop, and for networking and interoperability products for information systems solutions. A member of the Fortune 1000, Intergraph Corporation is the world's largest company dedicated to supplying interactive computer graphics systems and the world's largest independent developer of Windows NT-based applications. Intergraph is based in Huntsville, Alabama, and has sales and service offices worldwide. Seagate Background Information Seagate Technology, Inc., is a leading data technology company providing products for storing, managing, and accessing digital information. Seagate product lines include the most comprehensive offering of disc drives and components, tape drives and data storage, management, and access software. Headquartered in Scotts Valley, California Scotts Valley is a small city located in eastern Santa Cruz County, California, United States, about ten miles (16 km) south of San Jose and six miles (10 km) north of the beach in the upland slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 11,385. , Seagate has offices and manufacturing facilities worldwide. -0- Intergraph(R) is a registered trademark of Intergraph Corporation. Microsoft and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. Other brands and product names are trademarks of their respective owners. EDITORS: For reader inquiries regarding Intergraph, please use 800-763-0242. Intergraph's World Wide Web URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. is http://www.intergraph.com/ics To reach Seagate Technology sales information, contact 800-531-0968. Seagate's World Wide Web site is http://www.seagate.com CONTACT: Terence Finan (206) 789-9066 tfinan@seanet.com or Intergraph Computer Systems: Aggie Frizzell (205) 730-6139 alfrizze@ingr.com |
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