MILPITAS, Calif., September 5, 2002 - Maxtor Corporation, a worldwide leader in hard disk drives and data storage solutions, today announced it is shipping the industry's highest density hard disk drives, its latest additions to its DiamondMax® 5400 RPM and DiamondMax Plus 7200 RPM families of desktop drives. Both feature industry-leading 80 GB per platter areal densities. The DiamondMax 16 and the DiamondMax Plus 9 are designed for capacities from 60 GB to 160 GB.
Both drives are currently shipping with the UltraATA/133 interface and will be available with Serial ATA (SATA) interfaces, for even higher performance with data transfer rates up to 150 MB per second. Built on the same platforms as the DiamondMax Plus 9 and the DiamondMax 16, Maxtor also is currently shipping the parallel ATA DiamondMax Plus 8, the company's first single head, single disk performance 7200 RPM drive, and the FireballTM 3, a single head, single disk 5400 RPM drive. Both drives will be available at 20, 30 and 40 GB capacities.
More information on the particular drives is at the
press release. I'm not sure how a 60 GB drive will utilize an 80 GB platter, though.
