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To: John Biddle who wrote (7342)	2/16/1998 4:04:00 PM
From: Hungry Investor	Read Replies (1) of 9124

John, >>By reading from all heads simultaneously, and reassembling the data electronically, you could raise the throughput significantly.<< Is there that much of a problem with the throughput to justify a 10-15% increase in the cost of a drive? Also the complexity of this type of scenario would add many additional costs besides the actual heads. Would the average consumer be willing to pay for the extra throughput speed??? How much would the company have to spend to educate the user on the differences?? Also creates problems in the assembly lines, we now would need new lines (additional cost) to build these new type of drives....just when the industry is trying to standardize things as much as possible to reduce the cost per drive. Its a nice thought, but I'm sure that it has been thought of by the R&D departments of all the big drive makers, and I'm sure they all came up with the fact that the additional cost per drive isn't worth reducing the seek time by 1/3-1/2 or increasing the throughput. Just my 2 cents, Scott.

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