Maxtor ships next-gen DiamondMax 10 HDDs

Maxtor Corporation has announced that it is shipping its new Maxtor DiamondMax 10 hard drives to OEMs and channel partners around the world. 

Based on an integrated, single-chip native SATA solution, the new DiamondMax 10 drives feature native command queuing (NCQ), the company's proprietary
dual-processor technology, and a new 16MB buffer to deliver speeds compared to
traditional 7200 RPM drives in their class.

Designed for multimedia PC users, graphic artists, system integrators and white-box builders, the new 7200 RPM DiamondMax 10 drives are offered in
capacities of up to 300GB. The company claims that these drives are ideal for storing
high-resolution images, multimedia content, and personal and business information.

“We continue to meet our customers' needs with reliable and cost-effective storage solutions - whether it's our new DiamondMax 10 drives for desktop
use, or our recently announced new MaXLine III drives for midline and nearline enterprise applications,” said Maxtor India subcontinent sales
manager Yogesh Kamat. “We have received positive responses from customers and channel partners around the world, which is a testament to their
confidence in our ability to deliver products that blend value, innovative storage technology and reliability,” he added.

Maxtor's DiamondMax 10 SATA drives are shipping today. DiamondMax 10 parallel ATA/133 drives are scheduled to begin shipping at the end of Q3
'04. DiamondMax 10 drives with a 16MB buffer are only offered on capacities of 250GB and above. 

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