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To: Starlight who wrote (13003)	7/18/2000 12:04:47 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 60323

This lawsuit may well be just a nuisance suit. Seagate and Veritas could care less about a few million dollars at this point. They could settle it for, say, $200 million, and not even miss since, since this is just money that would be returned in one form or another to shareholders anyway, and they have basically given little no evidence of caring much about shareholders interests. So the lawsuit may have been filed by opportunistic lawyers who believe that, and who see a way to jiggle of little of that cash their way rather quickly, as I'm pretty sure that if there is any merit at all to this claim (and their may well not be), even just the tiniest bit, they would rather avoid having it hang over their head,and would rather avoid having to pay legal fees out of the $800m that they will be taking after the take-under. If they settle now, they pay with money that would go back to stockholders (or to Veritas, if they choose to issue stock intead of cash). So that's my guess--it's plausibly a bogus suit, but it may well be settled w/o admission of guilt anyway.

To: Starlight who wrote (13003)	7/18/2000 12:50:09 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Respond to of 60323

Elizabeth, speaking of "quiet" hard drives, I recently installed a 45GB, 7200 RPM, IBM drive in my PC. While I copied ~8GB of data from my old drive, I repeatedly put my ear to the new drive because it appeared to be "dead". It turned out that it was alive and well ... and VERY quiet. Only warm to the touch after a full hour of constant writing, the drive is a total screamer. It boots noticeably faster, clocks in at ~30MBS using hand-coded software (loading 1MB blocks), and beats 15MBS with Sandra. Those numbers are several times faster than my old 10GB drive. It's hard to believe that a new disk drive can make a significant difference in the performance of a PIII/450, 128MB PC. But it does. Craig PS According to others, the 60 and 75MB versions run hotter and louder.