Maxtor Atlas SCSI Drive 15K II - Manual

Reliability and performance: the first 15K RPM enterprise
hard disk drive designed to deliver 1.4 million hours MTTF*
with leading IOPS performance
The Atlas 15K II Strengths
The Atlas 15K II SCSI drive is one of the industry’s fastest and reliable
15K RPM hard disk drive, with average seek times as fast as 3.0ms,
maximum sustained data transfer rate of 98MB/sec, and designed for
a 1.4 million hours MTTF*. The Atlas 15K II drive can manage the most
demanding I/O-intensive and high-bandwidth applications with supe-
rior reliability and adaptability. Maxtor’s intelligent drive technology,
MaxAdapt, allows the Atlas 15K II drive to adapt to various system designs
and conditions for ease of integration and maintains
optimal performance.
Atlas
®
15K II
ULTRA320 SCSI HARD DRIVE
36GB 73GB 147GB
15,000 RPM ENTERPRISE-
CLASS HARD DRIVE
EXCEPTIONAL CAPACITY AND
PERFORMANCE
• Third-generation Ultra320 SCSI
• Maximum sustained data
rate up to 98MB/sec
• 8MB cache (ECC protected)
• Seek time as fast as 3.0ms
EXTRAORDINARY VALUE
• Ease of integration
• MaxAdapt
®
• Up to 39% more IO/sec than
the Atlas 10K V
• SCSI investment protection
SUPERIOR RELIABILITY
• Designed for 1.4 million
hours MTTF*
• 24x7 dependability
• Proven Atlas family
architecture and firmware
• Shock Protection System
• Thermal sensor
• S.M.A.R.T. features
• RoHS compliant
ENTERPRISE
Maxtor MaxAdapt technology
offers the following key features:
Intelligent MaxAdapt features
• Adaptive Bias Estimation (ABE)—
Maintains consistent performance by
adjusting the bias applied
to the actuator
• Virtual Cache Lines (VCL)—
Allows dynamic assignment
of cache segments
• Adaptive Active Filtering (AAF)—
Improves signal integrity
• Rotational Vibration Compensation
(RVC)—Monitors and corrects for
external vibration
Reliability
• Improved S.M.A.R.T. and
self-diagnostics
• State-of-the-art manufacturing
test processes
• Multiple temperature tests
Performance
• Anticipatory read and write streams—
Minimizing hardware latency
• Opportunistic pre-fetch—
Uses latency between commands to
read ahead, improving performance
• Auto Read mode—
Improves random and multiple
sequential stream performance
Best-fit enterprise applications
• OLTP
• SAN environments
• NAS environments
• High-performance workstations
• 3-D animation
• Scientific data processing
• Economic modeling
• Data mining
• Web servers
• Audio/video
• Digital imaging