MAXTOR CORP. ANNOUNCES 7200 RPM, 40.9 GIGABYTE IDE HARD DISK DRIVE: New DiamondMax Plus 40 Well Suited For Server And Entry-Level RAID Applications.Milpitas, Calif.-based Maxtor Corp. rolled out its new high performance DiamondMax Plus 40 hard drives last week. With 7200 RPM spin speeds and other performance features, Maxtor says the new IDE (1) (Integrated Development Environment) A set of programs run from a single user interface. For example, programming languages often include a text editor, compiler and debugger, which are all activated and function from a common menu. drives provide the performance required for multimedia, Internet, video, and audio applications on high-end desktop systems, as well as for traditionally SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. applications such as servers and entry-level RAID systems. The drives, available in capacities up to 40.9GB, will begin volume production in January. "The DiamondMax Plus 40 drives continue Maxtor's leadership in the important 7200 RPM IDE product category," says Mike Cannon, Maxtor's president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "These new drives offer the quality, reliability and sustained throughput needed in high-end graphic and video applications such as online video editing See nonlinear video editing and video editor. . As we continue to set new standards for performance with 7200 RPM IDE drives, we enable our customers to use IDE products in traditionally SCSI applications." The DiamondMax Plus 40 drives feature a sub-9.0ms average seek time, a 2MB cache buffer incorporating a high-speed 100MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. memory for high sustained transfer rate, Maxtor's proprietary DualWave processor, and UltraDMA 66 for up to 66MB per second transfer rates. "The demand for 7200 RPM IDE drives is increasing dramatically as purchasers of high-end desktop systems look for faster storage solutions and as they are recognized as viable alternatives to SCSI products in many high-end applications," says John Donovan, vice president of IT research firm TrendFocus. "The performance generated by 7200 RPM IDE drives are ideal for entry-level RAID subsystems and audio/video applications." TrendFocus estimates that worldwide shipment of 7200 RPM drives will increase from approximately 14 percent in Q3 of this year to 41 percent by the end of next year. "By incorporating Maxtor's DiamondMax Plus 7200 RPM drives in our RAIDZONE disk arrays, we are able to achieve a RAID level 5 configuration, providing full redundancy capability to our customers with IDE drives," says Bob Ripley, vice president of marketing at Consensys. "Our RAIDZONE customers receive all the benefits of SCSI, such as fast sustained throughput rates Throughput rate is an obsolete term[1] in the terminology of automated chemical analysis. It may mean either:
1. ^ International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. "throughput rate". , at an IDE price." Volume production of the Plus 40 begins in January. Estimated retail pricing for the 40.9GB model is $349. |
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