Axcian, FYI,SYQT is taking advantage of MR tech.
SyQuest Announces Breakthrough 4.7 Gigabyte
Removable Cartridge Storage Technology -- The Rocket
Platform
Thursday February 27 8:29 AM EDT
Super-Capacity Drives Will Break Existing Barriers in High-end Applications,
Leveraging IBM and Headway Component Technologies
FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 27, 1997-- SyQuest Technology
Inc
today announced a radically advanced removable cartridge storage technology --
the
Rocket platform --expected to be incorporated into certain future SyQuest
products
by year end.
Beginning at 4.7 gigabytes of capacity, the new technology is expected to break
existing barriers for removable storage in a range of high-end applications --
including
workstations, servers, jukeboxes
and audio-video editing -- and is ideally suited for new MMX multimedia
systems. It
leverages leading-edge hard disk technology by integrating IBM's PRML read
channel
chip and Headway's
new dual stripe magneto resistive (MR) recording heads into the Rocket
platform.
"This is expected to be the first removable cartridge hard drive technology to
serve the
most demanding needs of serious computer developers and IT managers," said
Ed
Harper, SyQuest
president and CEO. "In collaboration with world-class innovators such as IBM
and
Headway, we have set the stage for a totally new era in removable cartridge
storage
that we believe will surpass
current DVD mastering technologies."
The Rocket platform is a high-performance removable Winchester drive
technology
that exploits the speeds of ultra-wide SCSI and sets the stage for follow-on
products
at higher capacities. Initially,
the Rocket platform is expected to enable users to utilize up to 4.7 GB of data
--
equivalent to a full-length feature movie -- onto a single hard disk cartridge.
Based on early performance data, it is anticipated that the first product of the
Rocket
platform will sustain a maximum data transfer rate of 10.6 MB per second,
have an
average seek time of 11 msec
and have a 2 MB intelligent cache buffer. The platform will be adaptable to
different
form factors, opening up the technology to an increased range of applications.
"SyQuest is on the cutting edge with its new Rocket technology," said John
MacKay,
president and CEO of Headway. "By incorporating our dual stripe MR heads
into this
platform, they are building-in both high performance and much greater
resistance to
potential contaminants, thus creating a very robust technology."
SyQuest's Harper will discuss the new Rocket technology and its implications at
the
Robertson Stephens conference on Friday, Feb. 28, at 10:30 AM at the
Ritz-Carlton
Hotel in San Francisco.
About SyQuest
SyQuest Technology, Inc. is headquartered in Fremont, and maintains
manufacturing
plants in Fremont .....
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