Maxtor Enterprise Drives Top Storagereview.com Leaderboard Charts

Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) announced today that its Atlas® 15K II and Atlas 10K V enterprise hard drives joined its MaXLine™ III drive as best-in-class hard drives on StorageReview.com's LeaderBoard, in their respective categories. The independent testing site awarded the Atlas 15K II drive top honors in the Server-Performance category and the Atlas 10K V drive the top position in the Server-Capacity category. The Atlas 15K II drive also received the distinction of being named by Storage Review.com the World's Fastest Hard Drive.

"The Atlas 15K II is the only drive, of the current SCSI wave now entering the channel, that actually delivers across-the-board performance improvements over the scores turned in by its prior generation," said Eugene Ra, editor of StorageReview.com. "It sets new records against competing drives for read access time and data transfer rates and raises the bar when it comes to server performance (IO per seconds). The Atlas 10K V sets new records for measured transfer rates in the Server-Capacity category and maintains the speedy random access performance that has been the hallmark of the Atlas line."

The Atlas 15K II drive scored the highest against all other drives tested by StorageReview.com on the SR File Server DriveMark 2002, which models the heavy random access that a dedicated file server experiences, and dominated the SR Web Server DriveMark 2002 benchmark, which simulates typical Web server activity. In the Server-Capacity category, the Atlas 10K V drive beat out its competitors in a number of performance tests and set new records on the SR Office DriveMark 2002 and SR High-End DriveMark 2002 benchmarks.

"Maxtor is honored that its MaXLine and Atlas drives are recognized by StorageReview.com as best in class because it is a testament to the product quality and leading technology built into these drives," said Brendan Collins, vice president of product marketing at Maxtor. "Taking top marks in StorageReview.com's testing speaks highly of the work we've put into developing products that meet and exceed the performance requirements demanded by today's enterprise applications." In the forth quarter of 2004, StorageReview.com placed the Maxtor MaXLine III drive on the LeaderBoard in the Desktop Category, which tested the drive against other ATA drives.

About Maxtor Atlas and MaXLine Drives

The Atlas 10K V drive features capacities of 73, 147 and 300GB at a 10,000 RPM rotational speed. The drive offers a maximum sustained transfer rate of 89MB/sec and average seek times as fast as 4.0ms and includes an 8MB ECC protected cache. The Atlas 15K II drive features capacities of 36, 73 and 147GB at a 15,000 RPM rotational speed. The drive offers a maximum sustained transfer rate of 98MB/sec and average seek times as fast as 3.0ms and includes an 8MB ECC protected cache.

The Maxtor® Atlas 10K V and Atlas 15K II drives are currently shipping and available from local distributors and resellers. Maxtor Atlas drives are the only enterprise hard disk drives in the market equipped with MaxAdapt® intelligent technology, which allows the drives to adapt to changing system conditions to maintain optimal system performance.

Maxtor MaXLine drives are premium ATA hard disk drives that offer customers an ATA-based solution to meet the demands of multi-user, high performance, secondary storage for midline or nearline applications including tape augmentation, disk-to-disk-to-tape back up and restore operations and archiving email. The 7,200 RPM MaXLine III drive is offered in capacities of 250GB and 300GB and Serial ATA or Ultra ATA/133 interfaces.

About Maxtor

Maxtor Corporation (www.maxtor.com) is one of the world's leading suppliers of hard disk drives and data storage solutions. The company has an expansive line of storage products for desktop computers, storage systems, high-performance Intel-based 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 New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MXO.

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

For purposes of measuring drive storage capacity, 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, integration of the company's products with products produced by others, the company's ability to complete product development activities, execute future production ramps and utilize manufacturing assets efficiently, pricing, competition, and the significant uncertainty of market acceptance of new products and technologies. These and other risk factors are contained in documents that the company files with the SEC, including the Form 10-K for fiscal 2003 and its recent 10-Qs. Maxtor is under no obligation to, and expressly disclaims any responsibility to update or alter, its forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Contacts:

Melissa Helms
Maxtor Corporation
(408) 849-4329
melissa_helms@maxtor.com

Jenifer Kirtland
Maxtor Investor Relations
(408) 324-7056

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