Imation Powered by Mtron

Imation Corp. announced a
strategic relationship with Mtron Co., Ltd., a pioneer in Solid State Drive
(SSD) technology and performance. Together, the two companies will develop and
market SSD solutions with an initial focus on high-growth areas including
portable computing and enterprise markets. The strategic relationship combines
Mtron’s leading technology innovation, R&D and manufacturing with Imation’s
global marketing, distribution and technical service expertise. Working
together, the two companies will make an early entrance in the SSD market with
Imation brand SSD products "powered by Mtron," to be released in the first
calendar quarter of 2008.

"Solid state drive technology is quickly moving from niche industrial
markets to enterprise and mobile business applications due to its high
performance, reliability and energy efficiency," said Dr. Subodh Kulkarni,
vice president, Global Commercial Business, R&D and Manufacturing, Imation
Corp. "Mtron has taken an early lead with its industry-leading SSD offerings.
We are confident that the combination of Mtron’s technology expertise with
Imation’s storage expertise and global distribution capabilities will quickly
advance SSD in the enterprise and mobile computing markets."

"Mtron has dedicated itself to advancing SSD technology and delivered the
fastest performing products on the market today," said Steve Jeon, CEO of
Mtron. "Imation’s proven data storage leadership makes our strategic
relationship a natural fit as together we bring this superior SSD technology
to more users worldwide."

Imation’s initial
offerings will consist of two SSD product lines — Imation SSD MOBI 3000
powered by Mtron for mobile and notebook PC users, and Imation SSD PRO 7000
powered by Mtron for enterprise computing users.

The Imation SSD MOBI 3000 provides maximum read speeds of 100MB per second,
maximum write speeds of 80MB per second, and random access time of 0.1ms,
making it the fastest SSD product in the consumer market. It also offers twice
the boot speeds of current HDDs and works at significantly faster speeds for
large rendering tasks such as multi-tasking, Photoshop and CAD. Because it
uses flash memory for low power consumption, is quieter and rugged for outside
environments, the MOBI 3000 is ideally suited for mobile computing.

The Imation SSD PRO 7000 is a high performance flash memory storage device
designed to eliminate system bottlenecks often experienced with conventional
HDDs. Optimized for enterprise and IT infrastructure, the PRO 7000 can rapidly
perform high capacity transactions utilizing Mtron’s unique controller
technology with maximum read speeds of 120MB per second, maximum write speeds
of 90MB per second, and random access time of less than 0.1ms. With an
enhanced solid state design, the PRO 7000 provides enhanced reliability and
write endurance with wear leveling, bad block management and error correction
code. With a more than 45 percent reduction in total cost of ownership as
compared to conventional HDD-based systems, the PRO 7000 can withstand
external shocks and vibrations, and offers Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)
greater than one million hours.

Mtron Co., Ltd.

Imation Corp.