Maxtor Announces Half-Terrabyte Hard Drives

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Maxtor has announced that it will begin shipping 500GB ATA/133 and Serial ATA hard drives in the third quarter of this year. The half-terabyte drives will spin at 7,200RPM and be available across Maxtor's QuickView, MaXLine, and DiamonMax lines. 300MB/sec transfer rates will be supported on the Serial ATA models, and since Maxtor's current generation of desktop drives already support Native Command Queuing, it seems likely that the new 500GB drives will as well.

The new 500GB hard drives will include a host of new features to meet the distinct needs of each brand's application area. The features will provide significant improvements in areas such as performance, thermal optimization, data management and security, interface and AV stream detection. The 500GB hard drives will also be RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) compliant.

Source: ShareHolder.com

danball1976

What is and what defines RoHS? Wonder how many platters these drives will be using, and I wonder if they are using perpendicular recording.

Kwitko

danball1976 wrote:

What is and what defines RoHS?

http://www.pb-free.info/laymens_terms.htm

danball1976

Kwitko wrote:

http://www.pb-free.info/laymens_terms.htm

Ah, it means it is free of lead and other toxic metals. Makes sense I suppose.