Maxtor's ATA-133 Does 160GB

B. Galliart writes "ExtremeTech has an article about Maxtor's two new bleeding edge ATA-133 drive models coming out later this month. The most interesting of these is the 160 Gigabyte DiamondMax Plus D540X (priced around $400) which uses Maxtor's purposed "BigDrive" 48-bit address space instead of the common E/IDE 28-bit address space thus getting pass the 137GB barrier. The drive should be useable on existing computers due to a bundled Promise Technologies ATA-133 PCI card."

Comments

It's the rotation speed that counts

[Drashcan]

For most of the applications the rotation speed is more important than the ATA standard. This determines the access time.
I prefer an ATA-66 @ 7200 rpm above an ATA-100 @ 5400

I didn't know

[samael]

I didn't know that there was a problem with drives over 137GB in IDE. Is there an extension planned? Or are we doomed to proprietary extensions from here on out?

Back to work

[tm2b]

A lot of people are saying that it's not appropriate to go back to tech stories, in the face of what happened yesterday.

But one thing to consider is that terrorism seeks to disrupt our lives as much as possible.

Even not knowing who "they" are, we can best combat them by going back to "life as usual," while never forgetting what has happened. It's not insensitivity, it's showing strength in the face of a threat.

IMHO, of course.

Re:I agree, but...

[Bronster]

If your dad were buried in the rubble right now, or part of the burning wreckage at the pentagon, wouldn't you be insulted by this?

If it was my dad buried in the rubble right now, I'd:

a) Not be reading slashdot, I'd be out there helping or at least donating blood.
b) Happy that other people were getting on with their lives rather than stopping everything to watch over my shoulders like vultures and revel in my misery.

If on the other hand I was someone from another part of the world, I'd:

a) Not stop my entire life every time there was an act of terrorism or racism or un-democratic election somewhere in the world.
b) Be sorry for your dad, but not any more than I am for all the other people who die in less middle-class white newsworthy places.

Of course we need news like this

[frog51]

If we want to hear more about the terrorism we can go to cnn.com etc, but most of what the media is saying today has zero information content - they keep showing the vids, 'experts' keep coming up with ideas and theories, but until there is some identification of the group involved it has no impact on my day to day business, which keeps going as usual. It hasn't changed anything in Scotland, aside from our car park security guard checking a little more carefully.
Granted, I keep checking back to see updates on casualties and it is a relief every time more survivors are rescued, but I do that through other sites.

Slashdot - news for nerds - HD specs definitely come into that category. On with the day.

Re:Of course we need news like this

[AntiFreeze]

I just wanted to completely agree with this post. I lost friends and aquiantances yesterday, and am having trouble getting on with things. Everywhere I turn, I am reminded of how horrible what happened was, and I am susepted to "theories" about what happened and why. Getting a little other news is quite nice. Helpful even.

I was shocked by the amount of attention Slashdot gave the horror yesterday, and it leads me to say something some Slashdotters might gasp at -- I am very pleased with how the Slashdot editors handled this event.

Cmdr: Thank you for your support. I tend to disagree with Jon Katz, but everything he spoke of in his account yesterday struck home. The effort Hemos and Timothy put into gatherring information and posting all the relevent material was quite helpful, especially when I couldn't get through to anyone in the City and had to occupy myself some way.

It's time for other news. Yesterday's news was overshadowed completely (and for good reason). It's time to take a few steps, albeit possibly tiny ones, forward. I'm shook up, but saturated. Other things to consider only help.

It allows new Kinds of Technology

[samael]

It allows me to (for instance) do high-quality digital video editing work, keeping multiple copies of everything I do.

I allows larger organisations to keep massive streaming video collections. If CNN want to keep hold of all the footage they produce in a day, they can now do it on a couple of Hard Drives, rather than the massive clusters they needed before.

It means I can take my Tivo and tell it to hit every news program, all the cartoon channel and anything with the word "Trek" in it, then come back and throw away what I don't want later.

It's not going to affect how many Word Documents I store, but it could mean that I can store every phone conversation I ever have, just in case anyone points the finger at tech-support.

Re:erm...

[D Anderson n'Swaart]

I feel like I'm taking a big risk posting this, because in all honesty I am neither from the US, nor have I lost any friends or family (full stop, let alone in terrorist attacks), so if you think I'm an arsehole I guess I'll understand.

So, no offence or troll intended, but this is still slashdot. News for Nerds. Stuff that matters. The terrorist attacks on the US are definitely stuff that matters, but not news for nerds. Maxtor's new drives are both. Just because they don't matter compared to maybe 50,000 people losing their lives doesn't mean they're not important, especially when you consider that, while the attacks on the United States have global implications, they are not affecting the productivity of non-US slashdot readers (except for economic ramifications), and these drives are going to be important next month, when the attacks on the WTC and Pentagon are no longer current.

Don't get me wrong; I do sympathise, and I don't mean to sound callous, but slashdot is about tech news, and a new 160 GB ATA 133 drive is big tech news. You can't allow the entire country, or the entire world, to grind to a halt because of these attacks. That is what the attackers would find the most satisfaction in. Maybe I'll get downmodded and flamed, but I say kudos to the slashdot crew for being business as usual; it's appreciated, and maybe even a necessary distraction to some. I know you don't care, but some people do. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh.