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To: John Wang who wrote (7539)	11/12/1997 10:31:00 PM
From: Pierre-X	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 11057

>This drive has 2.1G/platter, 9.5ms average seek time, Ultra DMA >(33.3M). Do you know offhand who the suppliers are for the 2.1G/P platters and HSA's? Are these KMAG platters and RDRT HSA's? I'll check the filings myself but in case I cant find it maybe someone knows. >In SEG's medalist UDMA series, 9.5ms seek time products up to 6.4GB, >they use up to 5 platters to achieve the same density as the same WD >MR products with 3 platters: I'm a little confused here by the use of "density" in this context. I could very well be mistaken but I thought density was a measure of bits per sq in? I take your point to mean the SEG drives have lower areal density? Pierre-X