General Description

Chapter 2

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Serial ATA is a high-speed link replacement for the Parallel ATA attachment of mass storage devices. The serial link employed is a high-speed differential layer that utilizes Gigabit technology and 8b/10b encoding. This chapter will provide you with an overview of key features of the QuickView 400/500GB Serial ATA hard disk drive, performance data, reliability, and versatility data. Performance and installation data are provided in chapters 3 and 4 respectively.

2.1PRODUCT OVERVIEW

Maxtor is the one of the industry leader’s in developing Serial ATA (SATA) and providing SATA hard drives in volume.

Serial ATA provides faster data transfer speeds, more bandwidth, more potential for speed increases in future generations and better data integrity. Serial ATA hardware is smaller and more compact than traditional Parallel ATA componets. A powerful command set and hot plug feature make SATA very attractive for ATA RAID applications.

With a maximum external (burst) data transfer speed of 300MB per second, the 1.5Gb Serial ATA interface speed is doubled to maximize drive throughput for future growth in drive transfer rates supporting data intensive environments. The QuickView Serial ATA hard disk drive features an embedded hard disk drive controller, and uses SATA commands to optimize system performance. Because the drive manages media defects and error recovery internally, these operations are fully transparent to the user.

The innovative design of the QuickView Serial ATA hard disk drive incorporates leading edge technologies with transfer speeds up to 300MB/second, Advanced Cache Management, Shock Protection System (SPS), Data Protection System (DPS), and Quiet Drive Technology (QDT). These enhanced technologies enable Maxtor to produce a family of high-performance, high-reliability drives.

Maxtor QuickView 400/500GB Serial ATA Hard Disk Drive

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