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Maxtor Manufacturing Capability Provides Density up to 175 GB Per Platter

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edited October 2003 in Science & Tech
[blockquote]MILPITAS, Calif., October 13, 2003 -- Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO), a worldwide leader in hard disk drives, announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary, MMC Technology Inc., demonstrated its new perpendicular recording medium (PMR) disk manufacturing process which delivers production costs similar to today's longitudinal recording media. MMC showcased a single-pass media production process for perpendicular medium using existing manufacturing equipment, making the transition to the next era of areal density possible at affordable costs. [/blockquote]
150 gigabyte disks with only one platter? Awesome size at an awesome speed!

<A href="http://www.shareholder.com/maxtor/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=119773&reltype=Corporate&maxtor_section=press&quot; target="_new">Maxtor Corporation</a>

<i>Submitted by mackanz</i>

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  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited October 2003
    I can't wait to see what hard disk capacities we'll all be seeing next year. 500 GB's on one drive?

    Who woulda thought....

    :thumbsup: to Maxtor/Quantum :)
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    The size is impressive, but I'll bet that the speed will be even more impressive. (higher density = higher speed, assuming all other things are equal)
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited October 2003
    500 GB 10,000 RPM SATA-150, 8 or 16 MB buffer. :eek:
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    Ooooo. I might have to upgrade my RAID array (4x 160gb DMax 9s in 2 2-drive RAID 0s...) :D
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited October 2003
    DAMN! You have any ATTO's on that setup?

    Mmm... 500 GB 10K RPM SATA-300's with 16 MB cache.
    Isn't SATA-300 supposed to make its way out next year?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    Yea, I think SATA-300 is due out next year. Won't make a bit of difference for extended read/writes tho, I don't think. I doubt even 10k RPMs + 175GB/platter is going to hit 300MB/s. But buffered I/Os ought to be damn fast...

    BTW, I've got ATTO screenshots somewhere (probably on the dually, which is down pending BIOS chip replacement) but the score is over 100MB/s reading and writing, and the arrays are not exactly optimized, either. I just used the default stripe size and stuff, since I couldn't find any info on a better size to use...
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited October 2003
    You use anything special on your array? What controller?

    I've got a pair of 36.7 GB WD Raptor's on the Promise FastTrak onboard SATA-150 in RAID-0 running 64/64 and the results are... well... disappointing.

    95 MB writes... 67 MB reads. :(
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Sod that, I want 2.5" drives to come down in price. They are horribly overpriced.

    NS
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited October 2003
    Highpoint RocketRaid 1540 SATA RAID, 4x RocketHead100 SATA-PATA adapters
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