Maxtor announced the company has been shipping 120GB and 80GB Serial ATA (SATA) Ultra Series hard drive kits to select retail stores.
Maxtor 250GB and 200GB SATA Ultra Series kits will be available on retail shelves mid-June.
“Demand from gamers, digital video professionals and hobbyists building home computers for MP3 audio convinced us that our super-capacity Maxtor® DiamondMax® drives needed to be available inretail,” stated Anna Jen, senior director of retail product marketing at Maxtor. “By offering the highest capacity Serial ATA drives, Maxtor continues its leadership and commitment to meet customerdemands for the latest in hard disk drive technology.”
With a burst transfer rate of 150 MB/s, Serial ATA is the world’s fastest ATA interface. Maxtor’s SATA retail drives combine the largest capacities, the speed of the Serial ATA interface,high-performance 8MB cache buffer and the best price to capacity ratio in retail. Maxtor SATA drives are RAID ready and designed for demanding applications such as 3D gaming, video editing, anddigital content creation. Every Maxtor SATA Ultra Series kit includes a thin, easy-plug SATA cable for improved airflow within a system. Installing a drive is easier than ever with no jumpers to setand the included MaxBlast
