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To: T Bowl who wrote (8517)	1/27/1998 2:55:00 PM
From: John Wang	Read Replies (1) of 11057

Todd: <<Why 3 platter? Why not 4? >> I had the same question previously. There got to be some reason for WDC not to consider 4 platter desktop HDD in the past. That does not mean that they don't have the technology to build 4 platter drives. Look at WDC 9G SCSI and it is a 6 platter drives. The reason may be that 4 platter market is small and does not warrant the additional overhead on chips because the same chips used for 4 platter drives will be used for 1, 2 and 3 platter drives. To have ASIC chips for 4 platters require larger die size and therfore slightly higher cost. And, the major volumes are in the 1-, 2- 3- platters. I would hope that someone can give better reason. John

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