at NUMBER NUMBER pm NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER NUMBER adam rifkin wrote i repeat ibm NUMBER NUMBERgb ultra dma NUMBER hard drive at fry s for NUMBER home of fast friendly courteous service r i kid you not that s a half a cent a megabyte for storage not el cheapo storage but top of the line storage less than two years later we have NUMBER gb for the same price URL maxtor driving capacity centric enterprise apps with super sized ata drives maxtor continues its leadership in the market it pioneered with a new category of high density ata drives milpitas calif september NUMBER NUMBER maxtor corporation nyse mxo a worldwide leader in hard disk drives and data storage solutions today announced maxtor maxlinetm its newest generation of ata drives designed specifically for rapidly emerging enterprise storage applications including near line media storage and network storage the maxline family features two critical differentiators huge capacities up to NUMBER gb for corporate archiving and media recording and unique manufacturing and quality for NUMBER NUMBER operations with mean time to failure mttf rates exceeding one million hours the maxline family is designed to bring hard disk drives into near line archive applications by adding a layer of maxline drives to archive architectures companies can instantly recover time critical data including executive e mail transaction data and accounting data that may need to be recovered on demand these new drives are designed to solve another enterprise problem with the storage of video media and audio conference call files even compressed these files take up tremendous amounts of high cost server space priced starting around NUMBER NUMBER to NUMBER NUMBER msrp maxtor s maxline family offers high capacity drives for enterprise applications at price points between traditional ata and scsi drives for system oems and white box builders maxline offers high density easy to integrate storage for use in entry level and mid size server environments the demand for instant recall of archived data is expanding as companies are meeting their obligations to quickly access executive e mails financial documents and transaction records said mike dooley senior director of marketing for the desktop products group at maxtor users may not need to access information in these applications on a daily basis but when they do need access it must be instant recent advances in ata technology and our manufacturing processes allow us to build upon our legacy of experience and provide our customers with a family of premium ata hard drives that can be integrated into a variety of systems for these enterprise applications the maxline family includes the NUMBER rpm maxline ii designed for capacities up to NUMBER gb and the NUMBER rpm maxline plus ii designed for capacities up to NUMBER gb at these capacities maxline offers higher storage density than many tape and optical solutions these drives have also been tested and are projected to meet enterprise reliability requirements already exceeded by prior drives employing the same robust maxtor designs which exceed mttf of over one million hours these drives will also carry a three year warranty the maxline ii and maxline plus ii feature the maxtor fast drivetm ultraata NUMBER interface for data transfer speeds up to NUMBER mb per second the maxline ii and maxline plus ii will be available with next generation serial ata interface for higher performance at NUMBER mb per second maximum data transfer rate serial ata improves hard drive performance to keep pace with the rapidly increasing performance requirements of data intensive environments and enterprise applications with a point to point connection architecture and rich command set for managing hard drive activity and data flow along the interface serial ata advances the performance and efficiency of the drive to system interface the interface s reduced pin count allows for simpler cabling which in turn allows better airflow within a system and further benefits the user with increased design flexibility and hot plug capability maxtor s maxline family of drives provide a solution for storing data that has previously been too expensive to keep on disk said dave reinsel analyst at idc the ata drives offer a great value low cost per gb and when integrated into storage systems and file servers offer a compelling cost effective alternative to tape libraries and optical drives which have been the traditional solutions used for near line applications availability limited qualification units of the parallel ata versions of maxtor maxline ii and maxline plus ii are now available with volume units available in the fourth quarter qualification units of the maxline ii and maxline plus ii with serial ata will be available later this month with volume shipments scheduled to begin in the first quarter of NUMBER about maxtor maxtor corporation URL is one of the world s leading suppliers of information storage solutions the company has an expansive line of storage products for desktop computers storage systems high performance 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 URL or by calling toll free NUMBER NUMBER maxtor maxtor is traded on the nyse under the mxo symbol note maxtor maxline and the maxtor logo are registered trademarks of maxtor corporation fast drive is a trademark of maxtor corporation all other trademarks are properties of their respective owners gb means NUMBER billion bytes total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment this announcement relating to maxtor may contain forward looking statements concerning future technology products incorporating that technology and maxtor s execution these statements are based on current expectations and are subject to risks and uncertainties which could materially affect the company s results including but not limited to market demand for hard disk drives the company s ability to execute future production ramps and utilize manufacturing assets efficiently pricing competition and the significant uncertainty of market acceptance of new products these and other risk factors are contained in documents that the company files with the sec including the form NUMBER k for fiscal NUMBER and its recent NUMBER qs copyright NUMBER maxtor corporation privacy policy udhay shankar n udhay pobox com www digeratus com 