William,
While the disk drive industry may be basing after an incredible run, it would be difficult to find the "ice" in the following chart.
quote.yahoo.com^IXIC&d=3m
Anyone know if the following info is current?
justquotes.transium.com
<<9 Gbyte dominiert im High-End
Abstracted from Markt & Technik 12/04/98
World: Sales of 18 Gbyte hard drives are set to approach those of 9 Gbyte hard drives at over 8 mil units each in 2001, vs just under 2 mil units and 8 mil units respectively in 1998, according to IDC and Dataquest. Of the high-end hard drive market, Seagate Technology accounted for 39.3% in 1998, vs 46% in 1997, whereas IBM accounted for 35.5% vs 33%, Quantum accounted for 9.3% vs 8%, Fujitsu accounted for 7.3% vs 5.3%, Western Digital accounted for 7% vs 4%, and Hitachi accounted for 1.6% vs 1.2% over the same period. Sales of high-end hard drives with parallel SCSI interfaces are set to rise to nearly 20 mil units in 2001, vs nearly 18 mil units in 1998, whereas sales of high-end hard drives with FC-AL serial interfaces are set to rise to nearly 8 mil units vs virtually nothing in 1998. Article include data in table form.>>
Thanks,
Yogi
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