Maxtor mines new DiamondMax drives
The company also introduced the DiamondMax Plus 8 for midrange PCs and the Fireball 3 for low-priced computers. The drive maker on Thursday announced that it has begun shipping four new drives, including the high-capacity DiamondMax 16 and DiamondMax Plus 9 drives for top-of-the-line desktop PCs. Drive makers have combined the 7,200rpm speed, up from 5,400rpm, with higher areal densities (or the amount of data that a drive maker can fit onto a single platter) and a new, higher-bandwidth ATA133 interface in a quest to outdo one another and... (The rotation speed refers to the spinning of the hard-drive platters, which hold the data and function like a record on a record player. Maxtor has refreshed its DiamondMax family of hard drives to serve up more data, and serve it up more quickly, for users of desktop PCs. The DiamondMax Plus 9 is Maxtor’s highest-performance desktop PC drive to date....





