Cebit 2002 - Maxtor

External HD drives

Maxtor offers durable plastic cases for external hard disk drives. The output provided interface is IEEE 1394.

Adapter cards

Maxtor's 1394 CardBus adapter card allows you to connect your laptop to digital video, audio, storage and more. The company also demonstrated an Ultra ATA/133 PCI adapter card, which offers up to 133Mb/sec data transfer rate and works with the most of ATA/UDMA133 devices.

Hard Disk drives

Maxtor presented the "DiamondMax" and the "FireBall" series of hard drives. DiamondMaxPlus D740X is a 3.5-Inch 7200RPM drive line, with available capacities up to 80GB. The supported Ultra ATA/133 Interface offers a data transfer rate of 133 MB/sec. The drives have a 2MB cache buffer, has a 8.5 msec average normal seek time and support Maxtor's "Quiet Drive Technology Plus", "Shock Protection System" and "Data Protection System" features. "Quiet Drive Technology Plus" delivers high level acoustics, with Fluid Dynamic Bearing motors, for improved overall sound quality. "Shock and Data protection system" give the user enhanced protection against both operating and non-operating shock and verifies essential functions in seconds to eliminate costly and unnecessary drive returns.

Maxtor 541DX is a single-platter 5400RPM hard drive family with capacities up to 20GB. The supported interface is the Ultra ATA/100 and the buffer comes to 2MB. The average seek time is 12msec.

For server and workstation use, Maxtor proposes the Atlas 10K III hard disk family, available at 18.4GB, 36.7GB and 73.4GB capacities. The rotation speed is 10,000 RPM and the average seek time is only 4.5ms. The drive comes with U160 and U320 interfaces.

Maxtor email management solution

"MaxAttachEMS" is a solution for centralized email storage and management. Email messages and attachments are automatically moved from the mail server to the MaxAttach storage server, creating one centralized email archive. The automatic data migration system offloads the email servers and reduces the email server backup time. The system has a simple administration and offers plug-and-play support for Microsoft Outlook /Exchange and Lotus Notes/Domino.

In the same booth, Maxtor demonstrated a serial ATA connection configuration with a hard disk drive.