MAXTOR PROVIDES 7200 RPM HARD DRIVES FOR HP PAVILLION PC BTO.Hewlett-Packard Company, a provider of home-PC's, has selected Maxtor's DiamondMax Plus 40 for use in the company's HP Pavilion HP Pavilion may refer to:
BTO Business Technology Optimization BTO Bachman Turner Overdrive (band) BTO Business Transformation Outsourcing BTO Build-Transfer-Operate BTO Brutto (German: Gross [quantity]) ) systems. The DiamondMax Plus 40 is the exclusive 7200 RPM hard drive being included in the HP Pavilion PC BTO system. "Maxtor's DiamondMax Plus 40 is the ideal hard drive for our customers who demand high performance for gaming, Internet and multimedia applications," stated Sam Szteinbaum, business manager of HP's North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Consumer Computing Organizations. "With speed, superior processing power and flexibility in capacities, our customers are empowered to get the optimum computing power from their HP Pavilion PC systems." HP's BTO PCs allow customers to visit a retail kiosk and order a custom-configured HP Pavilion PC system. From the kiosk, a customer is given the choice of features and hard drives including the DiamondMax Plus 40 with capacities up to 40.9 GB. "Because the DiamondMax Plus 40 is available in one to four-platter configurations at 10.2 GB per platter, we are able to provide HP Pavilion PC customers with many capacity points to meet their various storage needs," said Mike Cordano, Maxtor's vice president of worldwide sales. "HP's BTO program is a great solution for computer enthusiasts because it gives them exactly the systems they want." HP recently announced their latest HP Pavilion PC system featuring a Pentium III The successor to the Pentium II from Intel. Introduced in the spring of 1999 at 500 MHz, the Pentium III architecture was similar to the Pentium II with the addition of 70 new instructions optimized for multimedia (see SSE). 1GHz processor. The DiamondMax Plus 40 is one of the key features of this system, which is designed to meet the needs of demanding applications and Internet activities. The DiamondMax hard drive's performance contributes to offering consumers the fastest computing experience possible. The latest HP Pavilion PC, featuring the DiamondMax Plus 40, is available now and can be ordered as a BTO system through PC kiosks located at Best Buy, Circuit City and Staples stores nationwide. Additionally, the BTO HP Pavilion PC is available at www.hpshopping.com. About DiamondMax Plus 40 The high-end DiamondMax Plus 40 is designed to provide superior performance required for multimedia, Internet, video and audio applications on high-end desktop systems. It features a sub-9.0 ms average seek time and a 2 MB cache buffer incorporating a high-speed 100 MHz (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. The DiamondMax 40 also uses Maxtor DualWave twin processor technology for a 10x boost in host command processing speed See MHz. , 2 MB of high speed 100 MHz SDRAM for the cache buffer, and an UltraDMA 66 interface for up to 66 MB per second transfer rates. About Maxtor Maxtor Corporation is a supplier of information storage solutions. Maxtor has been the fastest growing supplier of hard disk drives over the past two years, more than doubling its share of the desktop market during that time. For network file sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. applications, Maxtor offers the new MaxAttach line of server appliances. Maxtor is traded on NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on under the MXTR symbol. Maxtor can be found on the World Wide Web at www.maxtor.com. For more information, call 800/262-9867 or 303/702-4108. |
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