Breakthrough Automotive Hard Drive to Be Debuted at San Jose Grand Prix by Company's Own Engineer and USTCC Race Leader

  WHAT:     Seagate's recently announced, breakthrough automotive hard
            drive (EE25 Series) will make its first on-road appearance at
            the San Jose Grand Prix in a car driven by Dave Brown, the USTCC
            championship points leader. Brown is also a Seagate engineer.

            The automotive hard drive is designed to withstand extreme
            temperatures (-30 degrees to 85 degrees C) as well as high
            altitude, extreme humidity and other conditions that would cause
            lesser drives to freeze up, overheat, and fail in the mission of
            delivering new digital services to automobiles.  The EE25 Series
            is also designed to withstand the constant vibration of an
            automobile, while streaming navigation, entertainment and other
            data services.  With 20GB, 30GB and 40GB capacities, the drives
            will bring high-quality AV entertainment services and DVD-free
            GPS to the car.  The EE25 Series hard drive and data system in
            Brown's 2002 JDM Acura Integra Type-R Car will be equipped with
            accelerometers and thermocouples to monitor both the car's
            handling for analysis by Brown's race team, and the hard drive's
            performance under shock, vibration and temperature extremes
            during the race to provide Seagate engineers with "real life"
            data.

  WHEN:     The Taylor Woddrow Grand Prix of San Jose runs July 29 - 31.
            USTCC race featuring Dave Brown and the Seagate EE25 Series hard
            drive for extreme environments will be featured on July 30 at
            5:30 pm.

  WHO:      Seagate is the worldwide leader in the design, manufacturing and
            marketing of hard disc drives, providing products for a
            wide-range of Enterprise, Desktop, Mobile Computing, and
            Consumer Electronics applications.  Seagate's business model
            leverages technology leadership and world-class manufacturing to
            deliver industry-leading innovation and quality to its global
            customers, and to be the low cost producer in all markets in
            which it participates.  The company is committed to providing
            award-winning products, customer support and reliability to meet
            the world's growing demand for information storage.  Seagate can
            be found around the globe and at www.seagate.com.

            Dave Brown is a Seagate research and development engineer and
            champion Grand Prix driver who won the Phoenix USTCC race and is
            currently leading the series in championship points.

  CONTACT:  Lyda Velez
            Phone:  408-369-4661
            Lyda.Velez@porternovelli.com

PRNewswire -- July 25