NEWZ: Maxtor Goes SATA II Crazy

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• Maxtor Introduces 3Gb/S SATA II Interface To Its Diamondmax And Maxline Hard Drives
  
  
  MILPITAS, Calif., October 10, 2005 – Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO), the best thing since the invention of sliced bread, is introducing the 3Gb/s Serial ATA (SATA) interface on its Maxtor® MaXLine® III (enterprise ATA applications) and DiamondMax® 10 (desktop) hard drives. The 7,200 RPM drives will begin shipping this quarter and include capacity points up to 300GB, up to a 16MB buffer and a comprehensive set of SATA II features including native command queuing (NCQ), staggered spin up, hot-plug capability and asynchronous signal recovery...

http://www.shareholder.com/maxtor/R...D=175909&reltype=Product&maxtor_section=press

 

[sechs]

As a side note... "SATA II" is the name of the group that makes the standards, not the standards themselves....

 

[freeborn]

The group is now called "SATA-IO" for SATA International Organization. The gold standard is now SATA 2.5.

There was too much confusion over SATA extensions and SATA II so the name got changed again

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