Maxtor Atlas 10K IV - Manual

The Industry’s Highest Performing 10K RPM Enterprise
Class HDD with Leading Capacity for Demanding High-
Bandwidth Applications
The Workhorse Just Got Faster
Introducing the Maxtor Atlas™ 10K IV drive, the industry’s fastest and
largest performing 10K RPM hard disk drive. Its 147GB capacity point
and 4.3 ms seek time provide just the right combination of perform-
ance and capacity to meet mainstream enterprise hard disk drive mar-
ket requirements. The Atlas 10K IV drive provides up to a 24% increase
in sustained data transfer rates and delivers 5% faster seek times than
prior 10K RPM hard disk drive generations. The drive is equipped with
the Maxtor second-generation Ultra320 SCSI interface, which includes
MaxAdapt™, Maxtor’s implementation of Adaptive Active Filtration
technology. MaxAdapt is a closed-loop method of improving signal
quality by amplifying the fundamental frequency of the signal in the
receiver while filtering noise and other undesirable components.
MaxAdapt allows the drive to adapt to changing system conditions
and components. This translates into lower error rates, easier integra-
tion, and increased bus efficiency for optimal system performance.
MaxAdapt is only available on Maxtor SCSI hard disk drives.
The Atlas 10K IV drive is designed to handle the most demanding
high-bandwidth and high-capacity enterprise server applications.
Atlas ® 10K IV
SCSI HARD DRIVE
36GB 73GB 147GB 10,000 RPM ENTERPRISE-
CLASS HARD DRIVE
EXCEPTIONAL CAPACITY
AND PERFORMANCE
• Industry’s largest capacity
10K RPM drive
• Highest performance—
4.3ms seek time
• Second-generation Ultra320
SCSI with MaxAdapt ™
• Maximum sustained data
rate up to 72MB/sec
• 8MB cache
EXTRAORDINARY VALUE
• Lowest cost-per-gigabyte
disk drive solution
• Double the capacity
of 15K RPM drives
• SCSI investment protection
SUPERIOR RELIABILITY
• MaxAdapt for better
signal quality
• 24x7 dependability
• Proven Atlas drive
architecture and firmware
• Shock Protection System ™
• Thermal sensor
• S.M.A.R.T. features
ENTERPRISE
Best-fit Enterprise Applications
Enterprise computer users now have
the highest capacity and performance
10K RPM drive for use in:
Maxtor Ultra320 SCSI
The Maxtor Ultra320 SCSI interface
implementation has proven fully inter-
operable with all major SCSI and SCSI
RAID controller manufacturers, and it
is backwards compatible with prior
SCSI interface standards.
• Multi-stream video
and audio
• RAID applications
• Large file transfers
• Enterprise servers
• High-end graphics
• Video servers
• Imaging
• NAS environments
• Data warehousing
• SAN environments
• Email servers
• Supercomputing
• Electronic cinema
• Many others