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sptw
09-09-2002, 03:43 PM
MILPITAS, Calif., September 9, 2002-Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO), a worldwide leader in hard disk drives and data storage solutions, today announced Maxtor MaXLineTM, its newest generation of ATA drives designed specifically for rapidly emerging enterprise storage applications including near-line, media storage and network storage. The MaXLine family features two critical differentiators: huge capacities up to 320 GB for corporate archiving and media recording; and unique manufacturing and quality for 24/7 operations with mean time to failure (MTTF) rates exceeding one million hours.

Specs for MaxLinePlus II:

- 7200RPM
- Capacities up to 250GB
- SATA or PATA Interface
- Data Transfer rates up to 54 MB/sec
- <10 ms seek time
- 150MB/ sec max bus speed
- Large 8MB Cache Buffer :worship:

Specs for MaxLine II:

- Capacities up to 320GB
- SATA or PATA Interface
- Data Transfer rates up to 44MB/sec
- <12 ms seek time
- 150MB/sec max bus speed

Press Release Here (http://www.maxtor.com/Maxtorhome.htm)

Player0
09-09-2002, 06:34 PM
Crap! Too bad its a maxtor and im anti-maxtor :)

mdzcpa
09-09-2002, 06:54 PM
Looks like some nice drives there.

I've good experience with Maxtors myself, though my favorites at the moment are still Western Digitals. Then again, my oldest living hard drives now are Maxtors.

Anywho...I'll be looking into these new drives methinks:)

tripodal
09-10-2002, 01:14 PM
Originally posted by Player0
Crap! Too bad its a maxtor and im anti-maxtor :)


its ok, it will force the others to create something similar in a flavor you like
but for me... time for a new toy