Maxtor Corporation, a worldwide leader in hard disk drives and
data storage solutions, and Adaptec, Inc., a leader in data storage access solutions, today announced an alliance to ensure the interoperability of Maxtor's high-performance, Atlas 10K III Ultra320 SCSI hard drives and Adaptec's Ultra320 SCSI RAID controllers. Ultra320 is the next step in the high-performance Ultra SCSI interface that transfers data at speeds up to 320MB/sec. This increase enables bandwidth-hungry applications to process graphics and data faster. Through this alliance, Maxtor and Adaptec will provide select worldwide customers with pre-tested, interoperable Maxtor Atlas 10K III Ultra320 hard drives and Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI RAID controllers. Maxtor customers that have already received Atlas Ultra320 drives will be able to receive an Adaptec controller card to complete the qualification of their solution. Resellers may also benefit from the alliance through the availability of pre-tested Ultra320 solutions. The Atlas 10K III Ultra320 drives are designed for high data throughput applications such as streaming multimedia audio and video, video editing, data warehousing, Web servers, and RAID arrays. According to manufacturer specs, the drive sports a 10,000RPM rotational speed, 4.5ms seek time, an 8MB cache buffer, and 55MB/sec peak sustained data throughput. Adaptec's Ultra320 SCSI RAID controllers include advanced features such as optimized disk utilization. With this feature, customers can use the full capacity of all drives attached to Adaptec's RAID controllers, regardless of size.

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