<P>Just over four years ago, Seagate introduced the world s first 10k RPM disc drive. Since that time, the storage industry has consistently looked to the Cheetah as the ultimate high-performance storage device. While others have followed, the cheetah has always turned its head to look back at the future. The future has now arrived with the new Cheetah hard drives, satisfying the demands of transaction-hungry internet servers. Cheetah has become synonymous with the highest performance device in the Enterprise Storage market and will always represent Seagate s highest-performing drives. </P><P> For the enterprise-storage industry, this ability to rapidly gain information translates into improved productivity and profitability. The Cheetah incorporates Seagate s exclusive patent-pending RACE Motor for Reliability with Advanced Control and Efficiency (RACE). This motor introduces Seagate s advanced ferro-fluid control design and an advanced efficient stator, which transfers more of the power into revolutions, and less into heat, dramatically reducing power requirements and creating a cooler drive. These designs represent a dramatic breakthrough in reliability and allow OEMs and systems integrators to use this class of drive in existing platforms and applications without having compatibility issues or requiring infrastructure changes. </P>