Fastest desktop computer

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. (FCPA), one of the world's leading suppliers of hard drives and computer peripherals, has announced its latest 20.4 GB per platter desktop hard disk drives.

The MPG3xxxAT/H series offers industry-leading data transfer rates, leading-edge interfaces, and sweet spot capacity points. With both 5400 and 7200RPM speeds and the availability of Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) motors, this series is one of the fastest and quietest IDE desktop series in the industry today.

The new Fujitsu MPG3xxxAT/H series includes capacities of 10.2GB, 20.4GB, 40.9GB, at 20.4GB per platter and 30.7GB at 15.3GB per platter. With data transfer rates up to 60.7MB/s, seek times as low as 8.5ms, lower power consumption, and a 512KB or 2MB buffer, these new drives offer outstanding performance for today's wide-range of desktop applications. In addition, the new Fujitsu desktop series incorporates Ultra ATA/100 for maximum media transfer rates up to 100MB/sec.

Fujitsu hard drives consistently deliver leading quality, reliability, and performance that has helped establish FCPA as a leading global supplier. FCPA's recent acceptance of Compaq's Supplier Excellence Award solidifies the company's achievements as a world-class hard drive manufacturer. This newest desktop series offers a wide range of capacities for a variety of applications. In addition, this series offers Silent Drive Technology with the implementation of Fluid Dynamic Bearing spindle motors. FDB motors, along with silent mode firmware, creates an amazingly quiet, high-performance solution. The drives are also configured with Ultra ATA/100 resulting in a media transfer rate increase of 50% over the previous series.

These enhancements, including proven stiction free sliders, CAPS suspension and leading-edge GMR heads -- resulting in increased performance, reliability and capacity -- make the new high-performance drives ideal for emerging market applications and desktop PCs.