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Technology Stocks : Seagate Technology - Fundamentals
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To: Kevin Linder who wrote (126)11/11/1998 2:08:00 PM
From: Frodo Baxter  Read Replies (1) of 1989
 
You're confused. You're assuming bandwidth is the bottleneck, when it almost never is. No one disputes the importance of adequate bandwidth. Your contention that bandwidth expansion has not kept up with technological progress in CPUs, drives, DRAM is just plain wrong (the one exception is obviously Internet bandwidth). Because there is an incremental cost to adopting a wider highway, it is not rolled out until the last minute. Even then, "last minute" applies to highly artificial maximum burst load conditions. For example, even the fastest UltraDMA/33 drives today can only sustain a data transfer rate less than half 33MB/s... on contiguous data, located on the outer track, without any head seeking.

Also, your paean to multitasking is a non sequitur.
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