MILPITAS, Calif., October 10, 2005 – Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO), a
worldwide leader in hard disk drives and consumer storage products, is
introducing the 3Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA) interface on its Maxtor®
MaXLine® III (enterprise ATA applications) and DiamondMax® 10 (desktop)
hard drives. The 7,200 RPM drives will begin shipping this quarter and
include capacity points up to 300GB, up to a 16MB buffer and a
comprehensive set of SATA II features including native command queuing
(NCQ), staggered spin up, hot-plug capability and asynchronous signal
recovery.
The new 3Gb/s SATA interface doubles the maximum data transfer speed of
the original industry-standard 1.5Gb/s SATA interface. The performance
benefit of the 3Gb/s SATA interface speed can especially be seen by
system builders and integrators in multi-drive environments, where
bandwidth is aggregated.
"Maxtor is adding the new 3Gb/s SATA interface to its
product line, equipping the drives for next-generation storage arrays
and desktop computers," said Gary Gentry, senior vice president,
worldwide marketing at Maxtor. "The 3Gb/s SATA interface combined with
SATA II features is designed to provide users with enhanced
performance, connectivity, data availability and storage management
capabilities."
The hard drive industry is continuing its transition
from the traditional parallel ATA to the SATA interface. According to
IDC, 65 percent of the worldwide desktop PC market will feature the
SATA interface by the end of this year. Many PC and storage subsystem
manufacturers are expected to deploy 3.0Gb/s SATA products in 2006 to
take advantage of the increased interface speed and a richer feature
set. Maxtor's introduction of 3.0Gb/s SATA into its award-winning
product portfolio positions it to support industry needs for the new
interface across multiple markets.
Interoperability between Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
and 3Gb/s SATA make the Maxtor MaXLine enterprise ATA family the ideal
complement to Maxtor® Atlas® SAS drives, providing customers the
broadest range of capacity and performance for their enterprise storage
needs. The SAS interface allows SAS and SATA disk drives to be
configured in the same enclosure, enabling customers to mix and match
high-performance Atlas drives with high-capacity MaXLine SATA drives to
meet a broad range of price, performance and capacity requirements.
Maxtor hard drives with the SATA 3Gb/s interface will
also be available in retail later this year for consumers who want to
upgrade1 their PCs for an improved multimedia, gaming or overall
computing experience. For more information about Maxtor's 3Gb/s SATA
hard drives, please visit www.maxtor.com.
Source: Maxtor Press Release
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