Maxtor Ships Atlas 10K V And Atlas 15K II Enterprise Drives

KingFishKingFish
edited November 2004 in Science & Tech
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

Comments

  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    OK, I'm sold. How much are they? (ouch! ?)
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited November 2004
    if you have to ask...

    you probably can't afford it


    KF
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited November 2004
    LOL. You're right, I'm sure.
  • KingFishKingFish
    edited November 2004
    :D
    I wish I could afford it myself. 3ms average seek times!
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited November 2004
    I used to have five Maxtor Atlas 10KIV drives.. they were fantastic performers.. I'd love to see the V's :D
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