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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (100)	4/18/2000 2:29:00 PM
From: Tom Simpson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 179

<<Does the U8 come in high capacity, low platter count version ?>> Sarmad....U8 is 4.3 GB/surface, comes in 1 and 2 platter versions with 1, 2, and 4 heads to yield capacity points of 4.3, 8.4, 17.2GB. The older U4 was a 2.1GB per surface drive. Competes with wdc,qntm, and mxtr 5.1 GB/surface 5400 rpm drives which will be at 7.5GB per surface by this fall. I think at that point 85-95% of all desktops will ship with a single platter drive, most in a 2 head 15GB configuration. There is some hope there for a leveling out of component compression in that part of the storage spectrum. In high capacity enterprise the beat goes on :o) Best Regards.....Tom

To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (100)	4/18/2000 3:08:00 PM
From: Tom Simpson	Respond to of 179

<<My impression was that Seagate drives (non enterprise) did not offer cost, nor density, nor capacity, nor noise, nor heat advantages when compared with offerings from WDC, HDD or MXTR.>> PS....you are quite right, they don't. But it does appear that Seagate has managed to cut their component manufacturing costs down to levels that keep them cost competitive anyway. How much is real and how much just appearance is hard for me to tell, but I worry about the uncertainty in that particular matter. Incidently, I give HDD particular credit for optimizing product towards the low end market with the 4k rpm drive. The folks that once brought us BigFoot haven't lost their imagination. Tom