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Maxtor Joins Intel and Eurologic to Showcase Storage Tech

Maxtor Corporation, a worldwide leader in hard disk drives for consumers, professionals and enterprise applications, showcased its Atlas 10KIII-U320 SCSI and Serial ATA hard disk drives with Intel and Eurologic storage products at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, August 13-15, 2002.

Maxtor's Atlas 10KIII-U320 hard disk drives together with an Intel SCSI RAID controller and Eurologic's ULTRAbloc U320 JBOD will demonstrate system interoperability and the full power of the U320 SCSI feature set in RAID technologies. Maxtor's Serial ATA hard disk drives and an Intel Serial ATA RAID controller will demonstrate product interoperability in a RAID environment.

"The Ultra320 SCSI and Serial ATA interfaces provide the means for fast I/Os needed in high-bandwidth applications such as streaming multimedia audio and video, video editing, data warehousing, Web servers and RAID arrays," said Stephen DiFranco, vice president of corporate marketing at Maxtor. "Eurologic, Intel and Maxtor's products come together to provide the performance, reliability and scalability IT managers need to keep up with the growing amount of data in their businesses."

Transferring data at 150 MB per second, Serial ATA improves hard drive performance over the current parallel ATA interface to keep pace with increasing data intensive environments. Serial ATA also features an improved compact cable structure that leaves more room available in the chassis for better system airflow and design flexibility, which is especially important in RAID configurations. Direct connections from each drive to the host allow dedicated bandwidth for each device and enable hot-plug connection capability.

The U320 SCSI interface is the latest development for the SCSI parallel interface with a maximum data transfer rate of 320 MB/per second, which is double that of the previous industry leading SCSI interface, the Ultra160. In addition to the U320 interface, Maxtor Atlas 10K III-U320 hard disk drives feature huge capacities of up to 73.4 GB, 10,000 RPM rotational speed, 4.5 millisecond (ms) seek time, and 622 megabit-per-second (Mb/sec) internal transfer rate, setting a new standard of performance for enterprise and workstation drives. It also provides full implementation of the U320 SCSI feature set including Adaptive Active Filtration (AAF), which provides the highest possible signal integrity and reliability. "Intel is committed to providing standards-based building blocks to meet the growing demands being placed on networked storage," said Scott Goble, director, RAID storage operation for the Storage Components Division at Intel Corp. "The demonstration with Maxtor and Eurologic, utilizing the next-generation interfaces, illustrates the advantages of this approach in cutting costs and time to market."

"Eurologic's Ultra320 JBOD is designed to provide maximum system uptime, continuous data access and flexibility for a broad range of applications," said Mike McNamara, director of product marketing at Eurologic. "Together with Intel's RAID controller and Maxtor's Atlas 10KIII-U320 hard drives we can demonstrate the reliability and data availability needed for today and tomorrow's applications."

About Maxtor

Maxtor Corporation 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 Intel-based servers, and consumer electronics. Maxtor has a reputation of being a proven market leader, providing consistent high-quality products and service and support for its customers. Maxtor and its products can be found at www.maxtor.com or by calling 800-2-MAXTOR.

Contact: Jenifer Kirtland, Investor Relations, 408-324-7056, e-mail jenifer--kirtland@maxtor.com.