Maxtor Atlas SAS and MaXLine SATA Drives Showcased in Select IDF Demos

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WHO: Maxtor Corporation, one of the world's leading suppliers of
hard disk drives and consumer storage solutions.m., March 3, titled,
"SAS in the Enterprise Data Center.

STA booth visitors will be able to sign up for the free SAS
e-mail newsletter , Serial Storage Wire, published by STA.org or call
the STA office at 415-561-6273.

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Thursday, March 3, 10:00 a.maxstore. Maxtor is traded on the NYSE under the MXO
symbol.
NOTE: Maxtor, Atlas and the stylized Maxtor logo are registered
trademarks and MaXLine is a trademark of Maxtor Corporation . BlueShark Prepares to Launch New Models

LAS VEGAS, Today, BlueShark Technologies , a
privately held company, funded by investment banking firm, Valtec Capital
Corporation, announced its release of the Apriza 5700. In
addition to the PCI-X to eight-port SAS host bus adapter, the key
scalability components are the 12-port and 36-port SAS Expanders. SAS is expected to see rapid market
adoption and promises to become very prominent in enterprise storage
markets, consisting of servers, disk drives and external storage
subsystems.

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Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. For more
information, please go to: http://www. Twelve 15K RPM disk drives are among the
components enabling the system's 1GB/sec sustained transfer rate, the
fastest demonstration of a SAS system to date.

Attention Press and Analysts
Visiting press and analysts will be interested in the following:

STA, exhibiting in the IDF Storage Community, will be
represented by Martin Czekalski, VP of STA and Interface
Architecture Initiatives Manager , Maxtor, who will give a
15-minute presentation at 10:00 am on Thurs.

STA member companies contributing to STA's IDF booth support are
Broadcom, Hitachi GST, LSI Logic and PMC-Sierra.

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The launch of the Apriza 5700 sets the stage for the other planned releases.

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Intel Developer Forum Spring 2005

SAN FRANCISCO----The SCSI Trade
Association (STA), a member-run industry association established to
support and promote SCSI technology, is exhibiting in the Intel
Developer Forum (IDF) Storage Community area in booth number 104.

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About Maxtor Corporation
Maxtor Corporation (http://www.

For purposes of measuring drive storage capacity, GB means 1 billion
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grow stronger based upon the desire to integrate denser solutions
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"High Speed Serial Signaling for Storage," a class which STA
member, Intel , is presenting, will be held in room 2002 on
Thurs.

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The drives will be demonstrated
with products from Broadcom Corporation, Enlight Corporation,
LSI Logic and Promise Technology, Inc.m.

Promise Technologies Booth #201
Promise will feature 12 Maxtor MaXLine III SATA drives in the
Promise VTrak 12110 SATA RAID storage system to demonstrate NCQ
support in a high-capacity storage solution for midline and
nearline storage. 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.0) USB
ports, 2 serial ports, 1 parallel port, VGA and DVI ports for video, a PCMCIA
slot, and an internal PCI card slot for expandability."

About BlueShark:
BlueShark specializes in the application of embedded technologies that
make transactions more convenient for customers. We are incorporated in
Nevada, with our headquarters located in Las Vegas. The
newsletter covers SAS technology.

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The demo
highlights the performance advantages achieved with MegaRAID,
the PCI Express x8 host interconnect and LSI Logic SAS IC
technology.
Tony Giovaniello, BlueShark president, said , "The Apriza 5700 release is
the first of many scheduled over the summer.

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maxtor. All other
trademarks are properties of their respective owners. Its sturdy, good looking metal enclosure and sleek
black bezel design give it appeal in the office environment or on the
counter-top, while offering the ruggedness required on a shop floor.
STA's two live SAS system demonstrations showcase (1) SAS
Performance and (2) SAS Scalability and Flexibility."
"Serial Attached SCSI has begun to see OEM adoption since products
started entering the market last fall," said Dave Reinsel, Director,
Storage Research for IDC.

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The three interoperability plugfests held in 2004 have
provided a great deal of impetus toward meeting these objectives.

PMC-Sierra: 36-port SAS Expander.

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5-inch enterprise drives including Atlas(R) 15K II and
Atlas 10K V Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drives and MaXLine(TM)
III Serial ATA (SATA) drives.com) is one of the world's leading
suppliers of hard disk drives for consumer, industrial and entertainment
applications. 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.bluesharktech.5" enterprise-class disk drives in RAID 5 configurations.

STA Member Companies Exhibiting SAS Products at IDF

Adaptec, booth 307
Broadcom, booth 302
Catalyst Enterprises, booth 519
Finisar, booth 415
Fujitsu Computer Products of America , booth 102
LeCroy, booth 610
LSI Logic, booths 509 and 906
Maxtor drives can be seen in partner booths: Broadcom-302,
Enlight-837, LSI Logic-906 and Promise-201
Seagate Technology, booth 310

About STA

The SCSI Trade Association was established in 1995 to provide a
focal point for members to communicate the benefits of SCSI to the
industry.

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SAN FRANCISCO, Intel Developer Forum (IDF), Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) -- See how the latest Maxtor hard drives are
powering enterprise storage solutions at the Intel Developers Forum this week
in San Francisco.

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market readiness marks the culmination of three years of technology
development, interoperability testing, product development and
manufacturing." It will be held in the
Storage Community auditorium. The Association has a nine-member Board of Directors that
oversees the Marketing Communications and Technology Committees and
all STA activities.

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WHERE: Moscone Center West
860 Howard Street, San Francisco, Calif.

Hitachi GST: Twelve 15K RPM Prototype SAS interface drives
achieve the combined transfer rate of 1GB/sec.serialstoragewire.

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Enlight Booth #837
Enlight will feature 16 Maxtor Atlas 15K II SAS drives
installed in its SAS-316, 3U rackmount system, demonstrating
high-performance, flexible storage.com or by
calling toll-free (800) 2-MAXTOR.

BlueShark Technologies Adds Windows XPe Unit to Its Apriza Family

In
addition, many STA member companies are exhibiting Serial Attached
SCSI (SAS) products and technology at IDF (see STA member list with
booth numbers below). The SAS
performance demonstration is the first-ever to span a single RAID
array across multiple SAS controllers. The drives can each
sustain up to 93. The demonstrations
were configured and staged by the four contributors using their
components, as follows:

Performance Demonstration

Broadcom: The RAID-on -Chip SAS controller offers eight
SAS/SATA ports, both PCI-X and PCI-Express interfaces, and has
the ability to span RAID across multiple controllers (the
feature which enables the demo).

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WHEN: Tuesday, March 1, 5:30 - 7:30 p.

SCSI Trade Association Showcases Two Live Serial Attached SCSI Systems at IDF; SAS Demonstrations Highlight Performance Scalability and Flexibility Benefits

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Populated with 256MB
of IDE Flash and 256MB DDR Memory, the Apriza 5700 is ready for your most
demanding applications.com.

For Additional Information
Please Contact:

BlueShark Technologies
3753 Howard Hughes Parkway, Suite 135
Las Vegas, NV 89109

Tony Giovaniello
(530) 226-8390
(530) 232-0148 Fax
tonyg@bluesharktech.3MB/sec, providing a combined total of 1GB/sec
throughput.

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Wednesday, March 2, 12:30 - 2:30 p. Our other facilities
include offices in mid-town Manhattan and a support and configuration center
in Fremont, CA. SAS products are ready for market due, in part, to
three successful 2004 plugfests that were timed to coincide with the
SAS development schedule.

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The company has an expansive line of storage products for
desktop computers, storage systems , high-performance servers and consumer
electronics.

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. Our current Linux -based offering has been very
well-received.
The SAS Scalability and Flexibility demonstration points out how a
SAS system can easily be scaled to meet increasing storage needs.

Scalability and Flexibility Demonstration

LSI Logic: PCI-X to eight-port SAS host bus adapter and
12-port SAS Expander. To subscribe to Serial Storage Wire, STA's free
Serial Attached SCSI newsletter, please visit:
www.

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Broadcom Booth #302
Broadcom will feature its BCM8603 SAS controller card in a 1U
server with four Maxtor(R) Atlas 15K II SAS drives,
demonstrating up to 400MB/sec data transfer rates.

LSI Logic Booth #909
LSI Logic's PCI Express kiosk will feature its 8-Port External
SAS MegaRAID(R) adapter connected to an external enclosure
containing 12 Maxtor Atlas 10K V SAS drives. Maxtor has a reputation as a proven market leader built by
consistently providing high-quality products and service and support for its
customers. Now, with the addition of our Windows-based products,
BlueShark will broaden our market appeal allowing us to serve those customers
that have already deployed Microsoft solutions or are committed to CE or XPe. The RAID -on-Chip SAS controller
offers eight SAS/Serial ATA (SATA) ports and both PCI-X and
PCI-Express interfaces.
Harry Mason, President of STA and Director of Industry Marketing
for LSI Logic, stated: "SAS is market-ready after three years of
planning, developing and promoting the technology as well as educating
the industry about its advantages."
After entering the market in the second half of 2004, the rate of
SAS product introduction is accelerating with the expectation that by
mid -2005, a significant number of products will be available. STA promotes the understanding and use of SCSI technology
and influences the evolution of SCSI standards to meet future industry
needs.

For more information, please visit the STA
web site at info@scsita.

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WHAT: View storage applications and demonstrations of Maxtor's
latest 3. The 5700 is a 1 GHz ,
Via CE LP based, Windows XPe thin client. Additional plugfests are planned for 2005.

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SAS
15K RPM and SATA 7200 RPM disk drives complete the system, which
operates at 3Gb/sec.

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Hitachi GST: 15K RPM Prototype SAS interface drives and 7200
RPM, 3Gb/s SATA interface drives. Drive enclosure courtesy of
Adaptec.

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Maxtor and its products can be found at http://www. The BlueShark sales team is geographically dispersed across
the US to better serve our western hemisphere based customers. "Major product roll-outs are expected during
the first half of 2005 and we expect to see SAS products in the
indirect channels during the first quarter., March 3, at 2:30 pm.