The Atlas 15K II SCSI hard drive offers an unbeatable combination of reliability, adaptability and leading-edge performance to satisfy the demands of I/O-intensive, high-bandwidth... more
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capacities, Upto 300GB and Spindle Speeds of 10KRPM and 15KRPM. These drives use a temperature sensor to determine when the drive is exceeding its operating temperature r...
Connector: 80 pin Centronics (SCA-2), 68 pin HD D-Sub
Buffer Size: 8 MB
Features: Shock Protection System (SPS), temperature sensor, MaxAdapt
Compliant Standards: S.M.A.R.T.
SCSI Signalling Type: Low Voltage Differential (LVD)
Performance
Drive Transfer Rate: 320 MBps (external) / 98 MBps (internal)
Seek Time: 3.4 ms (average) / 8 ms (max)
Track-to-Track Seek Time: 0.3 ms
Average Latency: 2 ms
Spindle Speed: 15000 rpm
Reliability
MTBF: 1,400,000 hour(s)
Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^12
Non-Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^15
Start / Stop Cycles: 50,000
Manufacturer's product description
The Atlas 15K II SCSI hard drive offers an unbeatable combination of reliability, adaptability and leading-edge performance to satisfy the demands of I/O-intensive, high-bandwidth enterprise applications. It's ideal for OLTP, SAN and NAS environments, high-performance workstations, 3-D animation, scientific data processing, economic modeling, data mining, audio/video and digital imaging. The drive delivers seek times as fast as 3.0ms and data transfer rates up to 98MB/sec. At the same time, solid design and state-of-the-art manufacturing test processes make possible a MTTF of 1.4 million high-duty-cycle hours. Reliability is further enhanced by improved S.M.A.R.T. and self-diagnostics. Maxtor's intelligent drive technology, MaxAdapt lets the HDD adapt to the designs of individual systems, resulting in seamless integration and optimal performance.
Expansion / connectivity
Interfaces: 1 x Ultra320 SCSI - 80 pin Centronics (SCA-2), 1 x Ultra320 SCSI - 68 pin HD D-Sub (HD-68)
Compatible Bays: 1 x internal - 3.5" x 1/3H
Manufacturer warranty
Service & Support: 5 years warranty
Service & Support Details: Limited warranty - 5 years
Environmental parameters
Min Operating Temperature: 5 °C
Max Operating Temperature: 55 °C
Humidity Range Operating: 8 - 95%
Shock Tolerance: 63 g @ 2ms (operating) / 250 g @ 2ms (non-operating)
Vibration Tolerance: 1.5 g @ 5-500 Hz (operating) / 2 g @ 5-500 Hz (non-operating)
...This drive is perfect for backing up. Be it;
*movies
*Pictures
*music
*software
It's simply a case of plugging it in and sitting back, it's plug 'n' play, so as soon as you plug it in, Windows will go through it's usual stages when installing new hardware and like magic, you now have a 100GB externel harddrive.
It's extremely quiet and fast, which is what you would like when backing up. it also has a 7200 RPM, 8MB cache buffer, it's USB 2.0 and 1.1 compatible (upto 480 Mb/sec, Windows and Mac Os) plus a Maxtor DriveLock to protect from unauthorized use.
If you want an easy to install external harddrive with no cons, install wizard, plus a little extra, then this would be for you....
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Maxtor Review ofMaxtor OneTouch II 200 GBby
Kate987123
Advantages: Quick, easy to to set up Disadvantages: None!
...This is the second external hard drive I have bought as I managed to fill up my old one. I decided to go for Maxtor as my older one was made by the same company, although it was obviously an older model.
I was concerned it would be difficult to set up but it couldn't be easier. If I didn't have a problem with it then anyone can do it. The instructions don't go into too much detail but then its not really necessary for them to.
The 200GB will hold over 150,000 JPEG photos, 14 hours of DV video or 3,300 hours of MP3 music. I have mainly used it for storing movies and I have hundreds on there. You will need to have either Windows 98SE, ME, 2000 Professional, or XP for it to work or Mac OS 9.1 or later.
You can link the hard drive to your computer using USB or firewire, both of which come with the hard drive. I personally use USB...
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Advantages: Standard Disadvantages: Extremely unreliable, warranty is only one year
...One of the most unreliable and fault ridden disks I've ever seen. I purchased a batch of similarly sized Maxtors, Hitachis, Seagates and Western Digital drives around 3 years ago. I had about 15Maxtors, of which I now have 7 remaining. In comparison, I've only lost 1 Hitachi and 2 Seagates. I'd say that pretty much speaks for itself.
To top it off, whilst the Seagates came with 3 year return to base warranties, the Maxtors have about a 1 year. I wouldn't say that's a vote of confidence from the manufacturer on the product's reliability. Though, 1 year warranty on hard disks does seem to be becoming industry standard.
For disk purchases I would highly recommend Western Digital or Seagate. I still have 4 GB WD Caviars that are still up and running!...
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The Personal Storage line of external hard drives comes from Maxtor, who were acquired by Seagate last year. As a subsidiary of Seagate, Maxtor is currently the world's third-largest manufacturer of hard disks. What does this mean to the consumer? It... more
Some people call me ignorant for using Maxtor, but I honestly only order Maxtor for my hard drives. Now the only downside to the Maxtor 500 GB is that it is an external drive that, if not careful, can overheat and cause connectivity problems, transfer... more
Well what can i say. I chose maxtor because i thought it was a good named brand and would be reliable. Plus the fact they have been taken over by seagate who have been in the hard drive business forever. With these two factors you would think this would... more
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