Going the SAS Storage Way

Maxtor Atlas 15KII

Although Maxtor nowadays is part of Seagate, it will keep its own product lines. The vendor offers 36, 73 and 147 GB models, all of which run at 15,000 RPM and have 16 MB SDRAM cache memory. The company claims the devices have an average seek time of 3.4 ms reading and 3.8 ms writing.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.