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Technology Stocks : Disk Drive Sector Discussion Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Leo Mitkievicz who wrote (1406)	11/6/1997 9:44:00 AM
From: Henry W Singor	Respond to of 9256

From PC Magazine, November 4, 1997 <Inside Track By John C. Dvorak <Look for a reemergence of disk drive wars later this year and continuing into 1998. <The MR head increases the capacity of hard disks by a factor of five to ten, A factor of five to ten compared to what writing bits as one's and zero's in a notebook! This is crazy everyone knows that APM has 1.6GB/platter thin film heads everyone else has 2.1GB MR. not a big difference certainly not a factor of 5. <9GB drive will be standard issue in 1998, and one person told me to expect to see 20GB drives selling for under $500 by late 1998. This guy has his years wrong. Replace 98 with 2000 or 2001 and you have numbers similar to those from more reliable sources. What a loon. Henry