Hexus has posted a review on the Quantum Altas 10K II hard drive.

Quantum has been at the forefront of technology for quite a while, and has realized that their developments have help push hard drive performance. Like processors, hard drives increase in speed by around 38% a year, so a hard drive has a 2 year life span at the moment, if you want the latest kit that is. This 3.5" half-height drive is part of the Atlas range, which has been used in servers for the last few years, as with a lot of the Quantum hard drives. They work on something, which is already good, and add to it. For example this also happened with the Quantum Fireball LM range.

Densities of 7.3GB per platter, together with 10,000 rpm speeds, the VERY low 4.7ms access times, and the u160 connector, allow the Quantum Atlas 10K II series of drives to deliver the best performance needed for today´s high end PCs and mid-range servers. It is targeted to be used in high-end servers, Unix or NT departmental servers and other high-performance servers and workstations running high I/O applications. It can of course also be used in high-end desktop PC´s but might be a bit expensive for this.

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