NEWS: Maxtor Ships Highest Capacity SATA Drives in Retail

[Omega65]

Maxtor Ships Highest Capacity SATA Drives in Retail (http://www.shareholder.com/maxtor/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=111187)

PRESS RELEASE

Hard Disk Drive Giant Pairs Industry-Leading Capacity with Next Generation Interface

MILPITAS, Calif., June 11, 2003 - Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO), a worldwide leader in hard disk drives, today announced the company has been shipping 120GB and 80GB Serial ATA (SATA) Ultra™ Series hard drive kits to select retail stores. Maxtor 250GB and 200GB SATA Ultra Series kits will be available on retail shelves mid-June.

[jono]

It's a pitty those drives are not 10,000rpm instead of 7200rpm.

[mmonnin]

The hdds do not have near the max bandwidth of SATA cables. They couldnt fill ATA100 so whats the big deal.

[Omega65]

jono said
It's a pitty those drives are not 10,000rpm instead of 7200rpm.

The price of the 10K 36GB Raptors are dropping, that telsl you a higher capacity drive is coming......