News Maxtor Ships 300-Gbyte Hard Drive

From ExtremeTech:

Maxtor Corporation said it had begun shipping a 300-Gbyte parallel ATA drive to retailers.

The drive emphasizes capacity over performance, with a drive spindle that spins at 5,400 RPMs. The drive uses Maxtor's exclusive ATA-133 interface, which the company is holding onto as rivals begin to ship Serial ATA drives.

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I suppose the "capacity over performance" statement explains why it's PATA and not SATA.

Half a Terrabyte on a single drive by the end of the year?

 

Not by the end of this year, id say Q2-Q3 next yr.

Imagine looking 300gig of data though.. youd be pretty pissed off.