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To: Mark Oliver who wrote (1401)	11/4/1997 5:54:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9256

Samsung's Storage System division today will unveil two new 3.5-inch hard disk drives, the SpinPoint VG3 and the SpinPoint WN4, for desktop computers. The VG3 has a magnetoresistive head and an areal density of 2.1 gigabytes per platter and up to 6.3GB per drive. Seek times are 10 milliseconds. The WN4 drive is an Ultra SCSI drive that uses thin film heads and offer an areal density of 1.4GB per platter and 4.3GB per drive. The drives are being manufactured at Samsung's new 256,000-square-foot facility in Kumi, South Korea. The company claimed the plant is capable of shipping 12 million hard disk drives per year. The VG3 is priced at $295 per 1,000 units, and the WN4 is priced at $425 per quantities of 100. I'm trying to remember, has Samsung been a big player in the past? Well, I guess the suppliers of Acer are going to see falling orders. Hmm, more competition in desktop. The last profit center? Enterprise hurting, low end in trouble. Regards, Mark