Business
Maxtor E-IDE drives go up to 3.5Gb
US hard drive maker Maxtor has released a new line. The firm's CyrstalMax range succeeds the 7000 Series and offers between 875Mb and 3.5Gb capacities.
![zd-defaultauthor-martin-veitch.jpg](https://www.zdnet.com/a/img/resize/1e2053c0a5403224a068353b3f9ecf707f5a3f4c/2014/12/04/704444f5-7b6c-11e4-9a74-d4ae52e95e57/zd-defaultauthor-martin-veitch.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&frame=1&height=192&width=192)
The E-IDE drives use thin film heads and support PIO Mode 4 transfer rates of up to 16.7Mbps. The 4,500rpm drives use between one and four platters, have a 12ms seek time, and come with a 128Kb cache.
The CrystalMax drives will ship from October.
Maxtor Europe can be contacted by telephone on 01483-747356.