Maxtor has begun to sell its world’s largest MaXLine II HDDs in Japan and possibly some other countries. The devices boast with ultimate capacity of 250 and 300GB, but are not likely to be really fast because of small buffers and 5400rpm motors.
Maxtor’s MaXLine II hard disk drives are positioned for large storage solutions and enthusiasts requiring a lot of capacity and no need for a fast and furious HDD. The MaXLine II are made using the latest innovative platters from Maxtor and come in 3.5” form-factors. Unlike other modern hard drives, Maxtor’s huge babes feature Parallel ATA-133 interface and not Serial ATA-150. Both HDDs provide 2MB cache-buffers and 5400rpm motors, so, do not expect them to show high performance.
Japanese web-site Akiba PC Hotline reports that the Maxtor MaXLine II 250GB is available in local stores for $288, while the 300GB model is priced at $390.
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What about the LaCie 500 GB external firewire hdd, isnt this the worlds biiggest.. it comes in both 400 and 500 GB versions.
[Posted by: Silver | Date: 06/23/03 01:30:12 PM]
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Er... I tend to recall a 1.34 TB SCSI drive kicking around... :\
[Posted by: Addy | Date: 06/23/03 04:24:50 PM]
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are you sure this was not some raid solution ?
14x120GB drives a 1.34TB total usable capacity (RAID-0 over -5) ??
Well i dont know whats going on in the hdd manufacturers labs but i would think this is a little too far off from whats being shipped today for it to be avalible as retail. possibly with some all new technology or a bigger physical size than 3.5 inch. otherwise i would estimate this to take atleast 2 years to get to the market...
[Posted by: Silver | Date: 06/24/03 02:35:46 AM]
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It is very clear here that what we may consider as slow speed drive is going to be a better advantage for the company to later within the first quarter ship the 7200rpm version. I don't believe that the company is not capable of producting faster HDD at this capacity. It is just a reservation of resources so they will not be as a company that will put all of theirresoueces all at once in a production of a component. I see this record breaking move as a step ahead for a company like this to advance further than their various compititors in the same industry of HDD production. It is obviously clear here that Maxtor and western digital is struggling on who come on top of the latest innovation. The compitition very soon will be as cut-throt as the one taking place between AMD and Intel on who comes on top in benchmark results. well western digital has started the shipping of ATA-150 HDDs. That is another move for them to clain superiority over Maxtor that cold only ship 5400rpm at 300GB. Well I expect that 500rpm should be shipped before the end of next year. if not for anything at least for the older HDDs like 120, 160 200GB to be affordable. So I want the compitition to be further become more seveire.
[Posted by: Adeolu Olusegun | Date: 07/26/03 12:54:52 PM]
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Excisting topic.
[Posted by: Lau | Date: 02/22/05 12:46:09 AM]
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