Compare Seagate Atlas 10K III 36.7 GB SCSI Ultra160 (16-bit) Hard Drive to Seagate OneTouch™ III (F14H500) 500 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive

Explosive growth in enterprise-wide computing and Internet applications is creating increased demand for larger and faster servers, performance workstations, and storage subsystems. To address this growth, Maxtor offers the award-winning Atlas 3.5-inch Product Family. The latest offering is the Atlas 10K III hard disk drive, which extends Maxtor's leadership position in the market. Atlas 10K III offers its customers the necessary capacity, leading performance, and rock-solid reliability to generate significant competitive advantages.??The Atlas 10K III drive continues Maxtor's performance leadership position. It sports a 10, 000 RPM platter rotational speed, blazing-fast 4.5-millisecond seek time, a large 8 megabyte (MB) cache buffer, and a 55 megabyte-per-second (MB/sec) peak sustained data throughput. These specs lead to one conclusion - the Atlas 10K III drive delivers the leading random I/O performance and sequential throughput required by customer's data-intensive applications... Less

The Maxtor OneTouch II external hard drive—simple backup and storage with Maxtor DriveLock to protect the contents of your drive if lost or stolen. Maxtor pioneered the revolutionary pushbutton approach to data backup, and stays in the forefront with the new Maxtor OneTouch II external hard drive. With up to 300GB, there's ample room to store your videos, photos, graphics, music, and more in one convenient location! The drive features a simple Maxtor user-interface for drive management, security, and backup, a whisper-quiet 7200 RPM hard drive with up to 16MB cache and a USB 2.0/1.1 interface for easy connection. PC compatible. Less