06.180.2005 - Maxtor Ships Atlas Hard Drive Family With Serial Attached SCSI Interface

Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) announced today it is now shipping the Atlas® family of disk drives, the fastest drives in their class1, with the latest enterprise-class interface technology - Serial Attached SCSI (SAS). The SAS interface allows SAS and SATA disk drives to be configured in the same enclosure, enabling customers to mix and match high-performance Atlas drives with high-capacity MaXLine® SATA drives to meet a broad range of price, performance and capacity requirements. Maxtor pioneered the use of high-capacity ATA disk drives in nearline and midline applications with its MaXLine drives, the de facto standard in this market. - View Press Release - Visit Maxtor Corporation