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KingFish
19 Nov 2004, 2:41am
Maxtor announced today the availability of the new members of its Atlas enterprise hard drives. The Atlas 10K V and Atlas 15K II are designed to a 1.4 million hour MTTF (mean time to failure) reliability rating, the company said.

The Atlas 10K V drive comes with capacities of 73, 147 and 300GB and a 10,000 RPM rotational speed. The drive offers a maximum sustained transfer rate of 89 MByte per second and average seek times of 4.0 ms.
The Atlas 15K II drive is available with of 36, 73 and 147GB of space and and a 15,000 RPM rotational speed. The drive offers a maximum sustained transfer rate of 98 MByte per second and average seek times of 3.0 ms.
3 ms average seek time....whoa -KF

Source: Tom's Hardware Guide (http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20041118_122104.html)

Leonardo
19 Nov 2004, 5:21am
OK, I'm sold. How much are they? (ouch! ?)

KingFish
19 Nov 2004, 2:00pm
if you have to ask...

you probably can't afford it


KF

Leonardo
19 Nov 2004, 6:10pm
LOL. You're right, I'm sure.

KingFish
19 Nov 2004, 10:57pm
:D
I wish I could afford it myself. 3ms average seek times!

lemonlime
20 Nov 2004, 11:12pm
I used to have five Maxtor Atlas 10KIV drives.. they were fantastic performers.. I'd love to see the V's :D