Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Maxtor SATA MaXLine III
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "NEWS" @ 03:20 PM
"Maxtor has introduced its third-generation MaXLine series of hard disks. Originally introduced over two years ago as the 120GB and 160GB DiamondMax D540X drives, the MaXLine series are designed for larger organisations and ship with a whopping 16MB buffer, native command queuing (up to 32 instructions execution to improve storage subsystem bandwidth), and additional SATA II features. They also feature a three-platter design and offer capacities of 250GB and 300GB. This type of drive is designed to serve as an intermediary hard disk where data is staged and prepared for backup while remaining randomly accessible, though not at the speeds delivered by primary storage."
Oh, if only you could see me doing a little jiggity jig right now. ;-) This is totally sweet. 16MB buffer, SATA II, native command queuing, 250-300GB, Wow! It spins at 7200rpm, and that is perhaps the only thing that I can find 'wrong' with this drive, but I am sure they will come out with higher speed models soon. These drives will apparently start shipping next quarter, and we will find out about pricing then.
Oh, if only you could see me doing a little jiggity jig right now. ;-) This is totally sweet. 16MB buffer, SATA II, native command queuing, 250-300GB, Wow! It spins at 7200rpm, and that is perhaps the only thing that I can find 'wrong' with this drive, but I am sure they will come out with higher speed models soon. These drives will apparently start shipping next quarter, and we will find out about pricing then.
