Maxtor Demonstrates The Flexibilty Of Serial Technology At Storage Networking World Orlando

Working demo and presentations highlight the latest in Serial Attached SCSI technology


MILPITAS, Calif., October 20, 2005 -Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) will be participating in the Storage Network World Conference, October 24-27, 2005 in Orlando, Florida at the JW Marriott Grande Lakes Resort. Maxtor will be teaming with Promise Technology and other storage industry leaders to showcase the flexibility, performance and scalability of serial technologies. Maxtor will also be speaking at a session on Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) during the conference.



Maxtor Serial Attached SCSI and Serial ATA Demonstration



Who: Maxtor Corporation



What: Maxtor’s booth will highlight its complete line of enterprise hard drives including the Atlas® 15K II SAS drive for the highest performance storage, the Atlas 10K V SAS drive for balanced performance and capacity storage and the next-generation 500GB MaXLine® SATA drive for high-capacity storage. The drives will be featured in three Promise Vtrak J300s SAS storage systems.



The Maxtor booth will also showcase systems including the Adaptec SANbloc S50 JBOD, JMR SAS subsystem and Xyratex 1603 16-bay SAS subsystem, and controller cards and host bus adapters including the PCIe Adaptec Serial Attached SCSI RAID 4805SAS controller, AMCC’s 3ware 9550SX SATA II RAID card, ARIO Data’s SANARIO FS PCI RAID Controller and LSI Logic SAS3442 Host Bus Adapter (HBA).



When: Tuesday, October 24 – Wednesday, October 25



Where: JW Marriott Grande Lakes Resort, Booth C24



SNIA Tutorial Session – Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Transforming the Storage Market



Who: Marty Czekalski, Maxtor’s interface and architectures initiatives manager and vice president of the SCSI Trade Association



What: This SNIA Tutorial Session discusses the benefits of serial technology, including technical details on how SATA and SAS interfaces function, interoperate and provide IT mangers with flexible choices.



When: Monday, October 24, 1:55 – 2:40 p.m.



Where: JW Marriott Grande Lakes Resort



About Maxtor Corporation



Maxtor Corporation (www.maxtor.com) is one of the world’s leading suppliers of information storage solutions. The company has an expansive line of storage products for desktop computers, near-line storage, high-performance Intel-based servers and consumer electronics. Maxtor has a reputation as a proven market leader built by consistently providing high-quality products, and service and support for its customers. Maxtor and its products can be found at www.maxtor.com or by calling toll-free (800) 2-MAXTOR. Maxtor is traded on the NYSE under the MXO symbol.



For purposes of measuring disk drive storage capacity, a gigabyte (GB) means 1 billion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment.



Note: Maxtor, the Maxtor stylized logo, Atlas and MaXLine are registered trademarks of Maxtor Corporation. All other brand, company and/or product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.

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