Thread: Quantum's Atlas TenK II Ultra160 SCSI Repel.

Interface Speed, Spindle Speed, Access Times and information Buffers, these are the major elements driving the functioning levels of any committed Hard repel engineering.Not long ago we contributed you a total detailed survey of the most recent engineering in SCSI Interfaces, Ultra160 and the Quantum AtlasV Ultra160 SCSI Repel.The months accept rolled on and so has the production growth cycle for Quantum.

In addition to this novel detected interface speed, Quantum has been constructing strides in the other sub-system elements of their Ultra160 SCSI Drives. The fruits of those attempts are evident in their novel high finish Atlas 10K II Family.Let's accept a appear.The Atlas 10K II family has approximately major enhancements over the Atlas V that we surveyed back in March this year.1st, the information buffer has been repeated from four MB to eight MB. This should actually assist with the sustained throughput of the repel which is 24-40MB/sec against the Atlas V's seventeen-twenty-nine MB/sec.


Next, the spindle speed on the Atlas TenK, as one would anticipate, is 10,000 RPM. As you might have guessed, with higher spindle speeds arrive quicker access times. The 10K II is the 1st repel we accept always tested here with an amazing sub 5ms. search time.The TenK II also has a higher Areal Density at 7.7Gb (gigabits) per square inch on the platters. This means, that byte for byte, the TenK II is becoming to cover more information area quicker and with less effort than repels similar the Atlas V.

Here is a responsibility comparison chart against others in the field. This demonstrates the pattern we tested, a 36G repel, and the competitor from Seagate and IBM.In short, the Atlas TenK sports higher densities per platter, fewer platters, deeper buffer size, Quicker seek times and higher sustained information rates, than these other lead of the line 10,000 RPM Ultra160 SCSI drives. There is but 1 other repel that can compete with these specs, the Seagate Cheetah X15.