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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (8792)	10/1/2000 10:37:16 PM
From: Z Analyzer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

<<An enterprising company could lash a dozen Maxtor 80-GB IDE drives into a terabyte storage server, put in a gigabyte of DRAM cache and I think the performance of the machine would be similar to other terabyte servers based on SCSI. >> That's what I found so interesting about the article on Scale Eight someone posted a week or so ago. Didn't go into technical detail and the website isn't informative, but my assumtion was that this is the sort of system they are developing. Makes sense that a disruptive technology could take a bite out of EMC's huge margined market. -Z