Photo: Red Hill.
Maxtor 7345A
Just about the last of the great Maxtor drives before the quality dropped off in the mid-nineties.
This was one of the biggest IDE hard drives in the world when it first came out, and in our view one of the best. We sold quite a number of them.
The 7345A was a beautifully finished product that oozed quality; visibly different to Maxtor's tacky-looking drives of a few years later, and (we always thought) indicative of the care that went into making it.
Illustration: the handsome Maxtor 7213A with a contemporary 386SX-33 mainboard. The 7345A looked almost identical.
| Performance | 0.62 | Reliability | AA2 |
| Data rate | 30 Mbit/sec | Spin rate | 3551 RPM |
| Seek time | 14ms | Buffer | |
| Platter capacity | 172MB | Interface | IDE |
| Actuator | voice coil | Form | 3½" 1/3 height> |
| 7345A | 345MB | 4 thin-film heads | ** |