Maxtor ATLAS 15K DATA SHEET

The World’s Fastest Hard Disk Drive—Seek Times as Fast

as 3.2 ms Provide the Industry’s Highest Performance for

Demanding I/O-intensive Applications

Extending the Advantage

The Maxtor Atlas 15K SCSI drive is the fastest hard drive in the world.

Its 3.2ms seek time enables 45% more I/Os per second than the aver-

age 10K RPM drives can achieve. The Atlas 15K drive can sustain up

to 75MB/sec data transfer rate and is ideal for use in high-performance

workstations, NAS and SAN environments, OLTP applications, enter-

prise servers and data mining applications. The drive is equipped with

Maxtor-developed Ultra320 SCSI and is backwards compatible with

all prior versions of SCSI. The Ultra320 interface includes MaxAdapt™,

a closed-loop method of improving signal quality by amplifying the

fundamental frequency of the signal in the receiver while filtering

noise and other undesirable components. MaxAdapt allows the drive

to adapt to changing system conditions and components, which

translates into lower error rates, easier integration, and increased

bus efficiency for optimal system performance.

Atlas®15K

SCSI HARD DRIVE

18GB 36GB 73GB

15,000 RPM ENTERPRISE­CLASS HARD DRIVE

EXCEPTIONAL CAPACITY
AND PERFORMANCE

• Industry’s Highest IOPS
performance

• 3.2ms seek time

• Second-generation Ultra320
SCSI with MaxAdapt

™

• Maximum sustained data
rate up to 75MB/sec

• 8MB cache

EXTRAORDINARY VALUE

• Industry’s lowest cost-per-I/O
disk drive solution

• 45% more IO/sec than the
average 10K RPM drives

• SCSI investment protection

SUPERIOR RELIABILITY

• MaxAdapt for better
signal quality

• 24x7 dependability

• Proven Atlas drive
architecture and firmware

• Shock Protection System

™

• Thermal sensor

• S.M.A.R.T. features

ENTERPRISE

Best-fit Enterprise Applications

Enterprise computer users will now
have the highest IOPS performance
for use in:

Maxtor Ultra320 SCSI

Maxtor’s Ultra320 SCSI interface
implementation has proven full
interoperability with all major SCSI
and SCSI RAID controller manufacturers
and it is backwards compatible with
prior SCSI interface standards.

• Scientific data
processing

• Economic modeling

• Enterprise servers

• Mathematical
modeling

• Data mining

• OLTP

• Workstations

• 3D animation

• SAN environments

• NAS environments

• GIS, non-linear
editing

• Large scale ISP
systems

• Many others

Specifications 18.4 36.7 73.4

Formatted Capacity (GB) 18.4 36.7 73.4

Bytes per Sector 512 512 512

Interface Ultra 320 SCSI

(Backwards compatible
with Ultra160, Ultra2,
Ultra SCSI)

Interface Connectors 68-pin WIDE and

80-pin SCA-2

Disk Drive Configuration

Disks 1 2 4

Heads 2 4 8

Performance Specifications

Seek Time

Average Read/Write (ms) 3.2/3.6 3.2/3.6 3.4/3.8

Tr ack-to-Track Read/Write (ms) 0.3/0.5 0.3/0.5 0.3/0.5

Full stroke Read/Write (ms) 8.0/9.0 8.0/9.0 8.0/9.0

Spindle Speed (RPM) 15,000 15,000 15,000

Average Rotational Latency (ms) 2 2 2

Transfer Rate

Internal (Mb/sec) 860 860 860

To /From Media (MB/sec) 100 100 100

Maximum Sustained (MB/sec) 75 75 75

Cache (MBytes) 8 8 8

Reliability Specifications

AFR (Annualized Failure Rate) 0.7% 0.7% 0.7%

Data Error Rate per Bits Read

Recoverable <1 per 1011<1 per 1011<1 per 10

11

Nonrecoverable <1 per 1015<1 per 1015<1 per 10

15

Warranty (years) 5 5 5

Specifications 18.4 36.7 73.4

Environmental Specifications

Operating

Te mperature (°C) 5 to 55 5 to 55 5 to 55

Non-Condensing Humidity (%) 8 to 95 8 to 95 8 to 95

Shock 2 ms (G) R/W 63/30 63/30 63/30

Vibration 5-500 Hz (G) 1.5 1.5 1.5

Acoustics, Idle (bels) 3.2 3.2 3.4

Non-Operating

Te mperature (°C) -40 to70 -40 to70 -40 to70

Non-Condensing Humidity (%) 5 to 95 5 to 95 5 to 95

Shock 2 msec (G) 250 250 250

Vibration 5-500 Hz (G) 2 2 2

Power Specifications

Voltage Requirements

+5VDC

+12VDC

+/- 5% +10%/-7%

Idle Power (W) 7.2 9.4 11.8

Physical Dimensions

Width max (inches/mm) 4/101.6 4/101.6 4/101.6

Length max (inches/mm)

5.787/147 5.787/147 5.787/147

Height max (inches/mm)

1.028/26.1

1.028/26.1 1.028/26.1

Weight max (lb/kg) 1.8/0.81 1.8/0.81 1.8/0.81

Order Information

Model Number Capacity Interface Connector

8C018L0 18.4 Ultra 320 68-pin Wide LVD

8C018J0 18.4 Ultra 320 80-pin SCA-2

8C036L0 36.7 Ultra 320 68-pin Wide LVD

8C036J0 36.7 Ultra 320 80-pin SCA-2

8C073L0 73.4 Ultra 320 68-pin Wide LVD

8C073J0 73.4 Ultra 320 80-pin SCA-2

Specifications subject to change without notice. GB means 1 billion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. Seek times are at
nominal conditions and include settling. 1This warranty is standard when products are purchased directly through authorized Maxtor distributors/dealers. End-user
warranties provided by computer manufacturers may vary.

©2003 Maxtor Corporation. Maxtor and Atlas are registered trademark of Maxtor Corporation. Shock Protection System and MaxAdapt are trademarks of Maxtor
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