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To: Robert L. Ray who wrote (4270)	11/26/1997 4:16:00 PM
From: Gus	Respond to of 7841

Top Dog The best example of where hard drive art and science meet is Seagate Technology's Medalist Pro 9140. Its version of MR heads and PRML encoding let it hold a belt-busting 9.1GB of formatted data on its four platters. [9.1/4=2.275 or ~2.3 GB/platter] The Medalist Pro's higher areal density contributes to its speed because more data can pass under the read/write head with each platter revolution. But Seagate also uses a new fluid-bearing (instead of ball-bearing) motor to spin the Medalist Pro's platters at 7,200 RPMs, which is more typical of SCSI than EIDE drives. Add a jumbo 512K buffer and it's no wonder that this drive turned in the highest recorded score, driving in at 17 percent faster than the previous high speed title holder, the IBM's $675 Deskstar 8 (see "Hard Drives in Overdrive," November, page 138). Even more impressive than the Medalist Pro's 194Mbps internal data- transfer rate and 9.5ms average seek time is its surprising $495 price tag. That works out to only 5.4 cents per megabyte, and a final price that's lower than the Deskstar. zdnet.com