| Maxtor's
SATA drives compatible with Intel's new chipset
Posted: 21 April 2003
Maxtor hits the road with Intel to educate integrators,
VARs and system builders on benefits of SATA products and system
designs
Dubai, UAE — Maxtor Corporation, a worldwide
leader in hard disk drives, announced that the company’s Serial
ATA (SATA) hard drives have completed compatibility testing with
Intel’s 875P chipset for the Pentium 4 processor.
Tests were done in both Intel and Maxtor labs. OEMs, solution providers
and system builders now have a variety of pre-tested SATA combinations
for building PCs, RAID arrays and near-line storage applications.
Included in many 875P platforms is Intel RAID technology that supports
high-performance RAID arrays for SATA hard disk drives.
“Intel and Maxtor continue to share the vision of the Serial
ATA transition delivering new value and capabilities to the PC and
near-line storage market segments.
Both companies have been active in the SATA working group and have
worked together closely on compatibility testing,” said Knut
Grimsrud, Serial ATA Working Group chairman and Intel senior principal
engineer.
“Today, Serial ATA is enabling new applications and simplifying
system designs. By combining our new Intel 875P chipset, with its
integrated SATA and RAID capabilities, with Maxtor’s family
of SATA hard drives, VARs can serve a variety of market needs.”
SATA’s point-to-point storage interface will provide accelerated
data transfer rates over the next 10 years. Maxtor SATA drives also
deliver high-performance transfer rates of up to 1.5Gbps and provide
cyclical redundancy checking (CRC) for increased data integrity.
In a PC environment, users can now plug Maxtor SATA drives directly
into an Intel D875PBZ desktop board; no adapter card is required.
Replacing the flat parallel ribbon cable with a thin Serial cable
also allows better airflow for cooling, which is an important consideration
in today’s new system designs.
The D875PBZ desktop board is available at resellers and integrators
worldwide.
“An attractive market for Serial ATA is near-line storage,”
said Stephen DiFranco, vice president of corporate marketing at
Maxtor. “In an efficient enterprise, fixed content should
be stored on cost-effective, near-line systems designed for fast
access times. When recalled, the data must be restored in seconds,
not days. By using Maxtor’s Serial ATA hard drives and Intel’s
chipset, system builders can offer customers a cost-effective, near-line
storage alternative.”
Maxtor’s 7200-RPM SATA drives feature the fastest performance
in their class and the highest capacity available on a SATA drive
today
About Maxtor Corporation
Maxtor Corporation is one of the world’s leading suppliers
of information storage solutions. The company has an expansive line
of storage products for desktop computers, high-performance Intel-based
servers and consumer electronics. Maxtor has a reputation as a proven
market leader built by consistently providing high-quality products,
and service and support for its customers. Maxtor and its products
can be found at www.maxtor.com or by calling toll-free (800) 2-MAXTOR.
Maxtor is traded on the NYSE under the MXO symbol.
For more information see www.maxtor.com.
Posted by Richard Price,
Editor Pipeline Magazine
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