Seagate Hard Drives Rev Up First Officially Licensed NASCAR PC

SCOTTS VALLEY, CA — November 21, 2005 — Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX), the world’s leading supplier of disc drives, today announced that the Seagate Barracuda family of hard drives will provide up to 400GB of tire-squealing storage for the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing’s (NASCAR) first officially licensed PC.

Now available at select North American retailers including CompUSA and online at Target.com, the NASCAR PC by Cisnet, a division of ZT Group International, includes a NASCAR-branded keyboard, mouse and speakers, NASCAR-themed Windows Media Player and screensaver, and free offers and discounts for several NASCAR partner services. The desktop computer also includes free lifetime 24/7 telephone technical support from ZT Group International. NASCAR is the premiere sanctioning body of stock car racing in North America, claiming one in three American adults as fans.

The Seagate Barracuda family of hard drives targets mainstream and high-performance PCs, low-cost servers, PC gaming systems and media PCs with the best-in-class combination of capacity, performance and reliability backed by an industry-leading five-year warranty.

“For NASCAR fans, power and speed are important both on the track and in personal computing,” said Karl Chicca, Seagate senior vice president and general manager, Personal Storage. “The world’s most popular desktop PC hard drive is a terrific match for NASCAR, one of the fastest growing spectator sports. Barracuda will help give NASCAR PC users the high-quality, reliable experience they’re accustomed to on the race circuit.”

“We used only the best computing components to build the NASCAR PC,” said Bob Anderson, vice president, Strategic Account Sales of ZT Group. “We are delighted to team with Seagate to bring this exciting PC experience to NASCAR fans.”

Seagate continues to strengthen it position in the personal computing market with the recent introduction of 7200-RPM Barracuda desktop PC disc drives that deliver up to a half terabyte of capacity, fast Gbit/second

Serial ATA throughput and cutting-edge storage technologies such as Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for the industry’s highest levels of performance and reliability.