JTS offers high capacity slim-profile notebook hard disk drives; MR heads enable capacity of up to 3.2GB in 12.5mm height
BusinessWire, Monday, June 02, 1997 at 08:09
TAIWAN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Computex--June 2, 1997--JTS Corp.
(AMEX:JTS), a world leader in the development of hard disk drives,
Monday announced four new additions to its 3.0-inch Nordic family of
slim-line, high-performance hard drives for notebook computers.
The offering includes some of the industry's highest available
capacity notebook drives in 12.5mm and 10.5mm heights.
This introduction marks JTS' migration to Magneto-Resistive (MR)
heads and features slim profile 3.24 Gigabyte (GB) and 2.69GB as
well as ultra-slim 2.1GB and 1.6GB notebook hard disk drives.
"MR head technology combined with 3.0-inch media will
significantly impact the future of the portable hard disk drive
market," said Tom Mitchell, president and chief executive officer,
JTS Corp.
"It will enable our 3.0-inch Nordic disk drives to provide
customers even better performance and higher capacities than
2.5-inch disk drives.
"At 1 gigabit (Gbit) per square inch, this is our first offering
with MR heads and is an important step in the industry transition to
a 3.0-inch portable hard disk drive standard. We will more than
double our capacity using advanced MR heads by the end of the year."
The four new hard disk drives bring the total number of products
in the Nordic family to seven. JTS is currently shipping 12.5mm
2.1GB and 1.6GB, and 10.5mm 1.4GB Nordic hard disk drives to major
notebook Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).
The Nordic 3.0-inch portable hard disk drives offer numerous
benefits when compared to 2.5-inch alternatives including overall
lower power consumption, higher capacity, greater reliability and
better performance.
The Nordic Family features 1 Gbit per square inch MR head
technology, a digital PRML read channel, 512K cache buffer, and can
withstand up to 350Gs of shock. They also offer SMART (Self
Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) capability,
industry-leading power management commands, an average seek time of
less than 12 milliseconds, a disk rotation speed of 4103 RPM and PIO
Mode 4 transfer rates of up to 16.6 MB/sec.
Like all JTS hard disk drives, the Nordic family is encapsulated
to lock in quality, protect against handling and ESD damage, improve
drive reliability and provide for easier installation.
This unique feature gives the installer the ability to handle
the drives on all surfaces without touching the PCBA. This
technology also reduces electromagnetic radiation interference to
and from the units.
The MTBF is an industry-leading 500,000 hours and each drive is
backed by a three-year warranty.
Samples of the new Nordic Family additions are available now
with production volumes in August.
JTS Corp., with headquarters in San Jose, Calif. was founded in
1994 to design, manufacture and supply enhanced-capacity hard disk
drives for the notebook and desktop personal computer markets.
The company currently employs more than 6,500 people worldwide
including manufacturing facilities in Madras, India.
For further information, contact JTS Corp. at 166 Baypointe
Parkway, San Jose, Calif., 95134. Phone: 408/468-1800. Fax:
408/468-1619. Web site: www.jtscorp.com .
NOTE TO EDITORS: Nordic is a trademark of JTS Corp. All other
product, company and organization names cited may be trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective companies or
organizations.
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