Compare Seagate MaXLine® III 300 GB ATA-133 Hard Drive to Seagate DiamondMax® Plus 10 80 GB SATA Hard Drive

MaXLine III drives provide large-capacity enterprise disk storage ideally suited for midline and nearline applications that require increased performance beyond traditional optical and tape solutions, as well as higher reliability than traditional desktop hard drives. MaXLine III drives provide IT managers with faster, more efficient alternatives to traditional backups, such as point-in-time copies, snapshot clones and remote replication. Businesses also have the option of maintaining more information on midline storage to supplement their online storage, offering them greater flexibility in managing their data. The third-generation MaXLine drives offer up to 300GB storage capacity designed for Mean Time To Failure (MTTF) of 1 million hours* for low I/O duty cycle midline and nearline applications. Less

Serial ATA drives are based on an integrated, single-chip native SATA solution, DiamondMax 10 drives feature native command queuing along with the company's exclusive dual-processor technology and large buffers to deliver unparalleled speeds compared to traditional drives in their class. This unique set of features combined with Maxtor's latest firmware technology, allows the drive to self-balance its workloads for a more efficient hard drive operation. With DiamondMax 10 hard drive-enabled systems, consumers can easily run multiple applications, such as games and music, at the same time without overwhelming the PC. Designed for multimedia PC users, graphic artists, system integrators and white box builders, the 7200 RPM DiamondMax 10 drives are offered in capacities of up to 300GB and are ideal for performance desktop computing storing high-resolution images, multimedia content, and personal and business information. Less