MAXTOR Driving
capacity-centric
Enterprise Apps with “Super-sized” ATA drives
Maxtor Continues its Leadership in the Market it Pioneered with a
New Category of High-Density ATA Drives
Maxtor
Corporation (NYSE: MXO), a worldwide leader in hard disk drives and data storage
solutions, today announced Maxtor MaXLineÔ, 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.
The MaXLine
family is designed to bring hard disk drives into “near-line” archive
applications. By adding a layer of MaXLine drives to archive architectures,
companies can instantly recover time-critical data including executive e-mail,
transaction data and accounting data that may need to be recovered on demand.
These new drives
are designed to solve another enterprise problem with the storage of video,
media and audio conference call files. Even compressed, these files take up
tremendous amounts of high-cost server space. Maxtor’s MaXLine family offers
high capacity drives for enterprise applications at price points between
traditional ATA and SCSI drives.
For
system OEMs and white box builders, MaXLine offers high-density,
easy-to-integrate storage for use in entry-level
and mid-size server environments.
“The demand for instant recall of archived data is expanding as companies are
meeting their obligations to quickly access executive e-mails, financial
documents and transaction records,” said Mike Dooley, senior director of
marketing for the Desktop Products Group at Maxtor. “Users
may not need to access information in these applications on a daily basis, but
when they do need access, it must be instant.
Recent advances in ATA technology and our manufacturing processes allow us to
build upon our legacy of experience and provide our customers with a family of
premium ATA hard drives that can be integrated into a variety of systems for
these enterprise applications.”
The MaXLine family includes the 5400-RPM MaXLine II,
designed for capacities up to 320 GB and the 7200-RPM MaXLine Plus II, designed
for capacities up to 250 GB. At these capacities, MaXLine offers higher storage
density than many tape and optical solutions.
These drives have also been tested and are projected to meet enterprise
reliability requirements, already exceeded by prior drives employing the same
robust Maxtor designs, which exceed MTTF of over one million hours, or over 100
years at 100 percent duty. These drives will also carry a three-year warranty.
The MaXLine II
and MaXLine Plus II feature the Maxtor Fast DriveÔ UltraATA/133 interface for
data transfer speeds up to 133 MB per second. The MaXLine II and MaXLine Plus II
will be available with next-generation serial ATA interface for higher
performance. At 150 MB per second maximum data transfer rate, serial ATA
improves hard drive performance to keep pace with the rapidly increasing
performance requirements of data intensive environments and enterprise
applications.
With a
point-to-point connection architecture, and rich command set for managing hard
drive activity and data flow along the interface, serial ATA advances the
performance and efficiency of the drive to system interface. The interface’s
reduced pin count allows for simpler cabling which in turn allows better airflow
within a system and further benefits the user with increased design flexibility
and hot plug capability.
“Maxtor’s MaXLine family of drives provide a solution for storing data that has
previously been too expensive to keep on disk,” said Dave Reinsel, analyst at
IDC. “The ATA drives offer a
great value, low
cost per GB and when integrated
into storage systems and file servers offer a compelling cost-effective
alternative to tape libraries and optical drives, which have been the
traditional solutions used for near-line applications.”
Availability
Limited
qualification units of the parallel ATA versions of Maxtor MaXLine II and
MaXLine Plus II are now available; with volume units available in the fourth
quarter. Qualification units of the MaXLine II and MaXLine Plus II with serial
ATA will be available later this month with volume shipments scheduled to begin
in the first quarter of 2003.
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About Maxtor
Maxtor
Corporation (www.maxtor.com)
is one of the world’s leading suppliers of information storage solutions. The
company has an expansive line of storage products for desktop computers, storage
systems, high-performance 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. Maxtor is traded on the NYSE under the MXO symbol.
Note:
Maxtor, MaXLine and the Maxtor logo are registered trademarks of Maxtor
Corporation. Fast Drive is a trademark of Maxtor Corporation. All other
trademarks are properties of their respective owners.
GB means
1 billion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating
environment.
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, the
company’s ability to execute future production ramps and utilize manufacturing
assets efficiently, pricing, competition, and the significant uncertainty of
market acceptance of new products. These and other risk factors are contained
in documents that the company files with the SEC, including the Form 10-K for
fiscal 2001 and its recent 10-Qs.
