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To: jonggua who wrote (1583)	1/31/1997 8:50:00 AM
From: paul lin	of 3256

James, Gus and all, Digging into the new 10-K of Read-Rite,found the following info is interesting. Talking about MR head, RDRT states, "The company's products for these programs support areal densities of approximately 1.3 GB per 3.5" disk; the company is also providing samples of its MR head designs at APPROXIMATELY 1.7 GB capacity per 3.5" disk to certain of its customers" As a matter of fact, RDRT's three largest consumers are WDC (43%) QNTM (29%) Maxtor (12%), So my conclusion is Maxtor has probably been testing MR with KM during 1996 already. Ratio 1.7 GB to 1.3 GB is around 130% as you may notice. The advantage is obvious to use KM with MR. 4 platter X 1.3 GB = 5.2 GB per drive 3 KM platter X 1.7 GB = 5.1 GB per drive so the same volume, save 2 expensive MR heads (costs approximately $25 to 30 ) and 1 ordinary platter ( the money which can be used to plating the platter with KM). Go AXC. PL

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