Dubai, UAE - 18 November 2004. Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) announced today the availability of the newest additions to its Atlas family of enterprise-class hard drives, the Atlas 10K V and Atlas 15K II drives. The drives are designed to a 1.4 million hour MTTF (mean time to failure) reliability rating and include new MaxAdapt adaptive features, with twice the storage capacity of their predecessors.
"We are pleased to offer our customers a broad base of high-performance 3.5-inch SCSI drives," said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing at Maxtor. "Our latest Atlas products are shipping today with the Ultra320 SCSI interface and we plan to offer drives with a Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface next quarter. Maxtor is committed to providing both 10,000 and 15,000 RPM, 3.5-inch enterprise-class drives with Ultra320 SCSI and SAS interfaces to support customers' current and future system designs."
"There will continue to be a demand for 3.5-inch enterprise drives in the server market due to the current installed base and proven system designs," said David Reinsel, program director, storage research at IDC. "By maintaining the 3.5-inch configuration, Maxtor's Atlas product line-up allows system vendors to leverage legacy design architectures while introducing a new technology to the market, such as the SAS interface."
The Atlas 10K V drive features capacities of 73, 147 and 300GB and a 10,000 RPM rotational speed. The drive offers a maximum sustained transfer rate of 89MB/sec and average seek times as fast as 4.0ms and includes an 8MB ECC protected cache. The Atlas 15K II drive features capacities of 36, 73 and 147GB and a 15,000 RPM rotational speed.
The drive offers a maximum sustained transfer rate of 98MB/sec and average seek times as fast as 3.0ms and includes an 8MB ECC protected cache. Maxtor Atlas drives are the only enterprise hard disk drives in the market equipped with MaxAdapt intelligent technology, which allows the drives to adapt to changing system conditions to maintain optimal system performance.
The Atlas 10K V and Atlas 15K II drives are currently shipping with the U320 SCSI interface. Product availability of SAS models is scheduled for the first quarter of 2005. A SAS system architecture will allow Atlas SAS drives to be integrated with Serial ATA (SATA) drives such as Maxtor MaXLine SATA drives in the same system. This Serial in a Box storage architecture provides flexibility and scalability in one enclosure that can serve as a universal building block for constructing a data center's storage infrastructure.
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About Maxtor
Maxtor Corporation (www.maxtor.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers of hard disk drives and data storage solutions. The company has an expansive line of storage products for desktop computers, storage systems, high-performance Intel-based servers, and consumer electronics. Maxtor has a reputation as a proven market leader, built by consistently providing high-quality products and service and support for its customers. Maxtor and its products can be found at www.maxtor.com or by calling toll-free (800) 2-MAXTOR. Maxtor is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MXO.
Note: Maxtor, Atlas, MaxAdapt and the stylized Maxtor logo are registered trademarks and MaXLine is a trademark of Maxtor Corporation. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
For purposes of measuring drive storage capacity, GB means 1 billion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. MTTF refers to the estimated mean time to failure and is calculated based upon statistical testing of a panel of Maxtor Atlas 10K V and Atlas 15K II hard disk drives.
This announcement relating to Maxtor may contain forward-looking statements concerning future technology, products incorporating that technology, and Maxtor's execution. These statements are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties which could materially affect the company's results, including, but not limited to, market demand for hard disk drives, integration of the company's products with products produced by others, the company's ability to complete product development activities, execute future production ramps and utilize manufacturing assets efficiently, pricing, competition, and the significant uncertainty of market acceptance of new products and technologies. These and other risk factors are contained in documents that the company files with the SEC, including the Form 10-K for fiscal 2003 and its recent 10-Qs. Maxtor is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any responsibility to update or alter, its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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