NEWZ: Maxtor's *500* GB Hard Drives

[Computer Generated Baby]

• ...3.5-inch 7200RPM 3.0Gb SATA and ATA 133 hard drives with capacity points up to 500GB in the third quarter of this year. The new capacity will span the company's line of award-winning products, including Maxtor QuickView (consumer electronics - DVR/STBs, DVD/HDD combo devices), MaXLine, DiamondMax, Maxtor Shared Storage, and Maxtor OneTouch brand hard drives...
  
  The features will provide significant improvements in areas such as performance, thermal optimization, data management and security, interface and AV stream detection...

Read the full press release at: MAXTOR

 

[CougTek]

The PR doesn't say which product line the 500 gagabytes drive will be part of (DiamondMax or MaxLine). I'd like to know the advertised access time and the POH rating too.

Thanks for the news Baby.

 

[LOST6200]

Well, it is about time. Now the question is who will be first to distribute 500GB drives, Seagate, IBM or Matrox?

 

[Howell]

It won't be Matrox.

 

[LOST6200]

How can you be so sure? Q3 could be July/August/September, or even December for all we know.

 

[sechs]

Available and shipping... but when will people actually be able to buy them?

 

[timwhit]

I think it is because Matrox usually only makes video equipment. It might be Maxtor though.

 

[Pradeep]

500GB are available for configgy via Dell (for a very steep premium). Come to mama.

 

[LOST6200]

OK, Maxtrior, Matrxo, whaterevr.