Maxtor ships 100gig ide harddrive and much more at 40gig platters

[bonkers325]

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Additions to Maxtor?s DiamondMax® family of high-capacity, 5400 RPM hard drives feature 40 GB per platter, and the highest capacity ATA hard drive on the market at 100 GB. The new DiamondMax D540X (80 GB, 40 GB/per platter) and the DiamondMax 536DX (100 GB) are ideal for storage-intensive applications such as personal computers (PCs), consumer electronics (CE) and network attached storage (NAS) systems.

 

[Rand]

Just for clarification, the "536DX" is not 40 GB/platter, but actually 33GB/platter for the 100GB version. The other (smaller) 536DX drives are 30GB/platter.

The D540X is 40GB/platter, yielding up to 80GB in it's flagship size.

Maxtor needs to be a little more specific in ther press releases.

 

[bonkers325]

o
thanks

 

[Jittles]

Yeah thanks, I was wondering how you get 100gig out of 40gig platters...

 

[joohang]

2 platters + 1/2 platter?

Does "platter" refer to double sided or single sided?

 

[Pariah]

Platter refers to 2 sides. GB/platter doesn't really have a whole lot of bearing on drive capacity. Drive manufacturers usually like round numbers (40GB,60GB,80GB,etc), so if platter density is not evenly divisible part of a platter will be left untreated.