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Shuttle Chooses Western Digital Hard Drives for Use In Its Small Form Factor Computers

Posted on: Monday, 17 May 2004, 06:00 CDT

CITY OF INDUSTRY, Calif., May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Shuttle Computer Group, Inc., the world's leading designer and manufacturer of small form factor (SFF) computers, has chosen two series of Western Digital hard drives for use in its award-winning XPC line of products. The hard drives are: WD Raptor, designed for enterprise applications, and WD Caviar SE, for desktop use. Western Digital is a storage industry pioneer and one of its long-time leaders.

"The Shuttle XPC is one of the world's most popular PC's for media center and content creation," said Cameron Rogers, Director of Marketing for Shuttle. "Western Digital drives give XPC owners the capacity, performance, and reliability they need for demanding content and applications. We are pleased to be associated with the quality and performance the Western Digital brand represents."

WD Raptor is the only enterprise-class mechanical platform with a Serial ATA interface that meets all the reliability and performance demands of an enterprise environment at less cost than traditional SCSI drives. It is the world's first 10,000-RPM Serial ATA drive and has an average data seek as fast as 4.5 ms and is specially engineered for around-the-clock operation. In addition to enterprise applications, WD Raptor is appropriate for other high duty cycle requirements such as gaming and media centers. Shuttle offers its XPC systems equipped with WD Raptor 74 GB capacity drives.

Spinning at 7,200 RPM, WD Caviar SE drives offer the performance necessary for today's desktop applications. Its 8 MB buffer increases performance levels beyond that of standard 2 MB buffer EIDE hard drives. XPC equipped with WD Caviar SE range in capacity from 80 to 250 GB.

"Since their introduction, WD Raptor and WD Caviar drives have been embraced by PC enthusiasts and the gaming communities," commented Richard E. Rutledge, vice president of marketing for Western Digital. "Western Digital's family of hard drives are a natural complement to Shuttle's innovative small form factor computers and we are proud to be working with Shuttle to further serve these markets."

Products are available either through Shuttle's on-line store at http://www.us.shuttle.com/systems or from major consumer electronics, PC, and mass merchant retail outlets nationwide. Units are expected to retail in the $799 to $3000 range. Shuttle XPC's are also available as a barebones kit, allowing end users to custom build their own PC.

Shuttle XPC systems weigh approximately 12 pounds and have a footprint roughly the size of a shoe box -- 11.7"x8.9"x7.2". Each includes the company's patented integrated cooling engine (ICE), which provides efficient cooling for high-speed processors without the fan noise associated with high-end PCs.

About Shuttle Computer Group

Established in 1990, Shuttle Computer Group, Inc. is the American arm of well-known Taiwanese company Shuttle, Inc., the world's leading designer and manufacturer of small form factor (SFF) computers, and assorted motherboards. In 2001, the company ignited the SFF computer revolution and has continued to upgrade and enhance the platform ever since.

Today, its award-winning, fashionable Shuttle XPC is the best-selling small form factor brand, and a new line of complete XPC systems is now available to the end consumer. Available in over 100 countries, the XPC product line provides unmatched performance, functionality, and style. An XPC system delivers all of the power and flexibility of the PC, yet in a small, stylish form factor one third the size.

Headquartered in the City of Industry, California (20 miles east of Los Angeles), Shuttle Computer Group Inc. is firmly committed to delivering products with the highest quality, offering optimum performance and value. It services a nationwide network of distributors and resellers with a commitment to customer satisfaction that has made it the first choice of many retailers, system integrators, VARs, OEMs and ODMs.

Additional information can be found on the company's web site, located at us.shuttle.com or by calling (626) 820-9000.

About WD Raptor

WD Raptor hard drives, the world's first 10,000-RPM Serial ATA drives, are designed for enterprise storage applications. WD Raptor offers the reliability and performance of traditional enterprise SCSI hard drives at much less cost. The high-performance, low-cost Serial ATA interface is finding application with network attached storage (NAS) devices, storage area networks (SAN), workstations, RAID servers, medical imaging, gaming and video/broadcast.

About WD Caviar

WD Caviar desktop hard drives, available in both EIDE and Serial ATA interfaces, rotate at 7,200 RPM, offer the performance and capacity necessary for demanding applications in PC and Macintosh(R) computers, as well as entry-level servers. The Special Edition (SE) series employs 8 MB buffers to increase performance levels beyond other EIDE hard drives.

Western Digital was founded in 1970. The company's storage products are marketed to leading systems manufacturers and selected resellers under the Western Digital brand name. Visit the Investor section of the company's Web site (http://www.westerndigital.com/) to access a variety of financial and investor information.

(C) 2004 Shuttle Computer Group, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications are subject to change without notice. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies.

Shuttle Computer Group

CONTACT: Susan van Barneveld of Antarra Communications, +1-714-891-3660,svanbarn@antarra.com, for Shuttle Computer Group

Web site: http://www.westerndigital.com/http://www.us.shuttle.com/systemshttp://us.shuttle.com/

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