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Maxtor Shipping New HDDs
Maarten Goldstein
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Maxtor has announced new harddrives in the MaXLine, DiamondMax and QuickView lineup are now shipping to stores. There are new drives shipping with 500GB of capacity, along with 16MB of cache and SATA II support. Thanks Tech Report.

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  • madclown legacy 10 years legacy 20 years
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    October 25, 2005 10:12 AM

    Half a terabyte on a single drive!!! Geez, never thought we'd see the day...

    On the other hand, are there inherently more problems with bigger drives due to number of platters, etc? Like, they 're prone to failure more often?

    • Sniper21 legacy 10 years legacy 20 years mercury ultra mega
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      October 25, 2005 10:25 AM

      they're so new I doubt we'll know conclusively for awhile.

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