The Maxtor Atlas 15K SCSI drive is the fastest hard drive in the world. Its 3.2ms seek time enables 45% more I/Os per second than 10K RPM drives can achieve. The Atlas 15K drive... 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...
Seek Time: 3.2 ms (average) / 8 ms (max), 3 ms (average) / 8 ms (max)
Track-to-Track Seek Time: 0.3 ms
Average Latency: 2 ms
Spindle Speed: 15000 rpm
Reliability
Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^11, 1 per 10^12
Non-Recoverable Errors: 1 per 10^15
MTBF: 1,400,000 hour(s)
Start / Stop Cycles: 50,000
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's product description
The Maxtor Atlas 15K SCSI drive is the fastest hard drive in the world. Its 3.2ms seek time enables 45% more I/Os per second than 10K RPM drives can achieve. The Atlas 15K drive can sustain up to 75MB/sec data transfer rate and is ideal for use in high-performance workstations, NAS and SAN environments, OLTP applications, enterprise servers and data mining applications. The drive is equipped with Maxtor-developed Ultra320 SCSI and is backwards compatible with all prior versions of SCSI. The Ultra320 interface includes MaxAdapt, a closed-loop method of improving signal quality by amplifying the fundamental frequency of the signal in the receiver while filtering noise and other undesirable components. MaxAdapt allows the drive to adapt to changing system conditions and components, which translates into lower error rates, easier integration, and increased bus efficiency for optimal system performance.
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%
Vibration Tolerance: 1.5 g @ 5-300 Hz (operating) / 2 g @ 5-300 Hz (non-operating), 1.5 g @ 5-500 Hz (operating) / 2 g @ 5-500 Hz (non-operating)
Shock Tolerance: 63 g @ 2ms (operating) / 250 g @ 2ms (non-operating)
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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Advantages: Fast, huge capacity, reliable, well built, quiet, good compromise between speed and price Disadvantages: Relatively expensive, not the biggest or fastest
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Drive: READ Min / Max / Average (winbench 99 in MB/s)
36GB 10,000rpm Compaq SCSI drive: 42.4 / 69.1 / 59.3
Maxtor: 32.2 / 63.8 / 49.3
Write Min / Max / Average (winbench 99):
SCSI: 24 / 40.5 / 35.7Maxtor: 12.5 / 24.3 / 19.2
Mainstream applications (business -Winmark)
SCSI: 9200
Maxtor: 15400 winmarks
(this is a good indication of how the drive will work on a normal desktop). The higher the score the better
CPU utilisation for the Maxtor is relatively high, but still within adequate levels at 3% on a Athlon 2800+ with KT400 board.
Admittedly these are not that comprehensive tests, but it certainly shows that for general use the Maxtor drive will lose out very little against the SCSI drive unless in write operations - and even then the price difference for so much extra space is minimal. It might not be able to work as well as a web...
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Advantages: Very capacious, Good qaulity, Good value for money Disadvantages: Not supported properly by most operating systems
...I wanted to buy a Hard Drive that I could trust all my files with. I have had an External Maxtor Hard Drive for a while and I can admit it's taken some abuse, but it still works fine! So I decided to go for Maxtor's 200Gb drive, the DiamondMax Plus 9.
I baught the OEM version, it was extremely good value for money, I got it for around £90! But the OEM version comes with no software and little did I realise that such a big drive needed to be specially activated first.
I must have spent half an hour tinkering with it un til I took a trip to Maxtor's website and found some software that would set it up for me. And the software worked a treat, except for 1 snag. My ATA drivers couldn't support 200GB and the drive had to be formated to 130GB instead, thats 70GB of valuable space down the pan!! And I am using Windows XP Pro which is one...
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