The Highest-Capacity Disk Drives for Home and Business

With more storage capacity, higher performance, and affordable prices, Quantum Bigfoot TX* 5.25-inch disk drives deliver what home and business users need to handle the new MMX, DVD, and MPEG-2 technologies. With an average seek time of less than 12 ms, Bigfoot TX drives exceed the performance of many 3.5-inch drives. And Bigfoot TX drives are the first to offer double-digit capacity for desktop computers - up to a massive 12 GB. This capacity gives users plenty of room now, with room to grow tomorrow. For all these reasons and more, Bigfoot TX drives deliver the best megabyte-per-dollar value in the market today.

The standard hard disk drive of just a year ago is now obsolete - and it's easy to see why. With today's huge graphical operating systems, the "software inflation" of average home and business applications, and the explosive growth of the Internet, the basic storage requirements of the average PC are virtually doubling every year. On top of all this, today's consumers expect their PCs to last three years or more, according to IDC*. To protect against obsolescence and meet these growing storage needs, it's vital that consumers buy the largest disk drives they possibly can today. To satisfy this rapidly expanding market, Quantum created the new Bigfoot^TM TX 5.25-inch disk drive family. With up to 12 gigabytes (GB) of capacity, increased performance, and exceptionally affordable prices, these drives are the perfect storage solutions for today's home and business computing markets.

The Bigfoot TX disk drive family delivers outstanding value and performance by combining the ubiquitous 5.25-inch form factor with state-of-the-art technologies. With a faster average seek time of less than 12 milliseconds (ms), the Bigfoot TX disk drives exceed the performance of many 3.5-inch drives. Bigfoot TX drives also feature advanced magnetoresistive (MR) heads, PRML read channels, and the latest manufacturing and design techniques. Finally, to maximize throughput, we added the advanced Ultra ATA interface to transfer data up to 33 megabytes per second (MB/sec). Altogether, these new features vastly improve sequential performance for multimedia, video, and MMX applications. Along with improved performance, we also substantially increased capacity. The Bigfoot TX is the first hard disk drive for desktop systems to offer double-digit capacity - up to 12 GB. This gives users plenty of room for the applications they need today, with room to grow tomorrow. All of which allows the Bigfoot TX to deliver the best megabyte-per-dollar value in the market today.

Even with its new high capacity and performance, the Quantum Bigfoot TX drive remains just 5.25 inches wide - the same size as a standard CD-ROM drive. It can be easily installed in a standard 5.25-inch drive bay without brackets or mounting rails, using the standard AT interface, cables, and 3.5-inch drive master/slave configurations.