Maxtor and Adaptec agree interoperability alliance

Maxtor Corporation and Adaptec have announced an alliance to ensure the interoperability of Maxtor's high-performance, Atlas10K III Ultra320 SCSI hard drives and Adaptec's Ultra320 SCSI RAID controllers.
Ultra320 is the next step in the high performance Ultra SCSI interface that transfers data at speeds up to 320 MB per second. This increase enables bandwidth-hungry applications to process graphics and data faster.
Through this alliance, Maxtor and Adaptec will provide select worldwide customers with pre-tested, interoperable Maxtor Atlas 10K III Ultra320 disk drives and Adaptec Ultra320 SCSI RAID controllers. By virtue of this relationship, select Maxtor customers that have already received Atlas Ultra320 drives will be able to receive an Adaptec controller card to complete the qualification of their solution.
Resellers may also benefit from the alliance through the availability of pre-tested Ultra320 solutions that are affordable, interoperable, and easy to use across many of today's most demanding applications.
John Joseph, vice president of marketing of Maxtor's Server Products Group, said: "Maxtor and Adaptec's robust product engineering and development relationship spans more than three SCSI generations, ensuring compatibility between Maxtor's disk drives and Adaptec's SCSI products.
"We are proud of our longstanding relationship and feel it is a testament to our commitment to providing customers with storage solutions they need to be successful."
The Atlas 10K III Ultra320 drives are well suited for high data throughput applications such as streaming multimedia audio and video, video editing, data warehousing, web servers and RAID arrays.
The drive sports a 10,000-RPM rotational speed, blazing-fast 4.5 millisecond seek time, a large 8 MB cache buffer and a 55 MB-per-second peak sustained data throughput.
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