System integrators doing all white by Seagate

Jan 13, 2005: Disk storage vendor Seagate has made available the latest in its range of notebook hard drives – the Momentus 5400.2 hard drive – to whitebook builders in Australia. The drive has a capacity of up to 100GB and areal density of 50GB per disk.

Seagate has also announced the availability of a new interactive online tool (at http://www.seagate-ap.com.sg/momentus/anz/) which helps partners develop plans to build and sell notebook PCs. Partners can also select and explore various vertical whitebook markets and learn how to benefit from the growth of each.

The whitebook segment is emerging as a new market among independent system integrators. A whitebook is essentially a "bare bones" notebook computer, lacking a memory, hard drive and CPU. Systems integrators then customise them, a process which only takes a matter of minutes.

"We see Seagate's partnerships in the notebook PC market growing with our expanding range of hard drive capacities and spin speeds," said Robert Yang, director of sales and marketing and general manager of Seagate Australia.

"Seagate's Momentus is the answer for many of our customers who are looking for a high performance notebook drive with a higher storage capacity," said Frank Sheu, managing director of IT distributor Synnex Australia.

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