Interfaccia Serial Attached SCSI per gli Atlas di Maxtor

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<br><blockquote><i><p>MILPITAS, Calif., March 28, 2005 - Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) announced today that the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface is available on qualification units of the award-winning Atlas® 10K V and Atlas 15K II drives. Maxtor has shipped qualification units to top OEMs as well as over 30 system manufacturers. Qualification units shipped include the industry's first 300GB and highest capacity SAS drive, the Atlas 10K V. </p>
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SAS is the next generation of the SCSI interface, developed to improve storage system performance, scalability, and availability and extend the capabilities of today's parallel SCSI disk drives. One of the most significant benefits of SAS technology is that the SAS system architecture allows 10,000 and 15,000 RPM, 3.5-inch Atlas SAS drives to be integrated with Serial ATA (SATA) drives such as Maxtor® MaXLine™ drives in the same enclosure. This capability, which Maxtor calls Serial in a Box™, provides unprecedented flexibility and scalability. SAS enclosures can serve as universal building blocks for constructing a data center's storage infrastructure to meet nearline, midline, and online data requirements. </p>
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Featuring a data transfer rate of up to 3.0Gb/s, SAS allows for higher levels of performance and adds a second port to the hard drive to enhance system availability and reliability. This second port provides two separate data paths to the drive. Both the Atlas 15K II and Atlas 10K V drives with the SAS interface feature dual ports, enabling the design of highly-available enterprise storage systems. </p>
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"As one of the leaders in developing SAS, Maxtor is pleased to be well into the qualification process with key customers and is preparing to begin shipping Atlas SAS drives next quarter," said Brendan Collins, vice president of marketing, core products at Maxtor. "Maxtor maintains its commitment to delivering a complete line of 10,000 and 15,000 RPM, 3.5-inch enterprise-class drives with Ultra320 SCSI and SAS interfaces to support customers' current and future system designs." </p>
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The Atlas 15K II SAS drive features capacities of 36, 73 and 147GB and a 15,000 RPM rotational speed. The drive offers a maximum sustained transfer rate of 98MB/sec and average seek times as fast as 3.0ms. The Atlas 15K II was recently ranked as the world's fastest drive by independent testing site Storagereview.com1. </p>
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The Atlas 10K V SAS drive features capacities of 73, 147 and 300GB and a 10,000 RPM rotational speed. The drive offers a maximum sustained transfer rate of 89MB/sec and average seek times as fast as 4.0ms. Both the Atlas 15K II and Atlas 10K V drives include a 16MB cache and are designed to the specification of 1.4 million hours MTTF. </p>
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Maxtor is a founder of the SCSI Trade Association's SAS initiative and has been engaged with several leading component vendors to ensure compatibility of Atlas SAS drives with components such as system backplanes and controllers supplied by those vendors. For more information on SAS including technical documentation and white papers visit http://www.maxtor.com/sas.