Maxtor Corporation today announced that it is shipping its new Maxtor SATA Ultra16 Hard Drive Kits. As the only retail hard drive featuring a 16MB buffer and offering best-in-class 7200RPM performance, Maxtor’s new Ultra16 kits are perfect for consumers who want to upgrade their systems for an improved multimedia, computing and gaming experience. The new Ultra16 Hard Drive Kits come with a high-performance Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive and offer capacities up to 300GB, allowing consumers to store 5,000 hours of their favorite MP3s, 230,000 digital photos (JPEG) or 144 high-definition video games. Maxtor’s easy-to-install SATA Ultra16 Hard Drive Kit includes an installation guide with step-by-step instructions, a SATA cable and mounting screws. The kit also includes Maxtor’s popular MaxBlastTM installation software, which partitions and formats the drive for use, and helps copy files from the old hard drive to the new Maxtor drive. In addition, the new Ultra16 drive offers a 150MB/sec interface speed and SATA II features including Native Command Queuing (NCQ) for more intelligent hard drive operation, and runs quietly with a fluid dynamic bearing motor.
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Maxtor Announces External DVR Drives
From Maxtor’s press release:
Maxtor Corporation announced today its QuickView portfolio of consumer hard drives will include an external storage offering. The Maxtor QuickView Expander drive will enable digital video recorder (DVR) owners to readily add-on up to 160 hours of recording time to their existing units. First of its kind, the QuickView Expander emphasizes Maxtor’s commitment to develop and market application-specific storage solutions for emerging categories such as consumer electronics.
Whining Dog Reviews Maxtor OneTouch Drive
Quote from the review at Whining Dog:
“Maxtor is commonly known as a manufacturer of internal hard drives but did you know that they also sell external hard drive products? The storage industry is currently a booming market as more and more content is made available digitally. With the explosion of audio, video, and digital photographs onto the computing scene, everyone needs more and more physical storage. That 40 GB hard drive just doesn’t cut it anymore when DVD’s are 4.7
