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starting around $299.95 to $399.95 MSRP, Maxtor's MaXLine family offers 
high capacity drives for enterprise applications at price points between 
traditional ATA and SCSI drives.

For system OEMs and white box builders, MaXLine offers high-density, 
easy-to-integrate storage for use in entry-level and mid-size server 
environments.

"The demand for instant recall of archived data is expanding as companies 
are meeting their obligations to quickly access executive e-mails, 
financial documents and transaction records," said Mike Dooley, senior 
director of marketing for the Desktop Products Group at Maxtor. "Users may 
not need to access information in these applications on a daily basis, but 
when they do need access, it must be instant. Recent advances in ATA 
technology and our manufacturing processes allow us to build upon our 
legacy of experience and provide our customers with a family of premium ATA 
hard drives that can be integrated into a variety of systems for these 
enterprise applications."

The MaXLine family includes the 5400-RPM MaXLine II, designed for 
capacities up to 320 GB and the 7200-RPM MaXLine Plus II, designed for 
capacities up to 250 GB. At these capacities, MaXLine offers higher storage 
density than many tape and optical solutions. These drives have also been 
tested and are projected to meet enterprise reliability requirements, 
already exceeded by prior drives employing the same robust Maxtor designs, 
which exceed MTTF of over one million hours. These drives will also carry a 
three-year warranty.

The MaXLine II and MaXLine Plus II feature the Maxtor Fast DriveTM 
UltraATA/133 interface for data transfer speeds up to 133 MB per second. 
The MaXLine II and MaXLine Plus II will be available with next-generation 
serial ATA interface for higher performance. At 150 MB per second maximum 
data transfer rate, serial ATA improves hard drive performance to keep pace 
with the rapidly increasing performance requirements of data intensive 
environments and enterprise applications.

With a point-to-point connection architecture, and rich command set for 
managing hard drive activity and data flow along the interface, serial ATA 
advances the performance and efficiency of the drive to system interface. 
The interface's reduced pin count allows for simpler cabling which in turn 
allows better airflow within a system and further benefits the user with 
increased design flexibility and hot plug capability.

"Maxtor's MaXLine family of drives provide a solution for storing data that 
has previously been too expensive to keep on disk," said Dave Reinsel, 
analyst at IDC. "The ATA drives offer a great value, low cost per GB and 
when integrated into storage systems and file servers offer a compelling 
cost-effective alternative to tape libraries and optical drives, which have 
been the traditional solutions used for near-line applications."

Availability
Limited qualification units of the parallel ATA versions of Maxtor MaXLine 
II and MaXLine Plus II are now available; with volume units available in 
the fourth quarter. Qualification units of the MaXLine II and MaXLine Plus 
II with serial ATA will be available later this month with volume shipments 
scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2003.

About Maxtor
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, storage systems, high-performance 
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.

Note: Maxtor, MaXLine and the Maxtor logo are registered trademarks of 
Maxtor Corporation. Fast Drive is a trademark of Maxtor Corporation. All 
other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

GB means 1 billion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on 
operating environment.

This announcement relating to Maxtor may contain forward-looking statements 
concerning future technology, products incorporating that technology, and 
Maxtor's execution. These statements are based on current expectations and 
are subject to risks and uncertainties which could materially affect the 
company's results, including, but not limited to, market demand for hard 
disk drives, the company's ability to execute future production ramps and 
utilize manufacturing assets efficiently, pricing, competition, and the 
significant uncertainty of market acceptance of new products.  These and 
other risk factors are contained in documents that the company files with 
the SEC, including the Form 10-K for fiscal 2001 and its recent 10-Qs.

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