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To: Hal Campbell who wrote (1317)	11/26/1997 12:27:00 PM
From: Milt Best	Respond to of 17679

I am no technician , but it has tested more bottoms than a convention of proctologists in the last year and a half............ LOL

To: Hal Campbell who wrote (1317)	11/26/1997 2:02:00 PM
From: Gus	Respond to of 17679

"The disk drive industry has traditionally been a case of the last man standing," he noted. Disk drives face war of attrition mercurycenter.com Disk drive makers heading down into their latest trough mercurycenter.com

To: Hal Campbell who wrote (1317)	11/26/1997 2:21:00 PM
From: Gus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

1996-97 DD Market Share (in units) 1996 [units ] 1997 [units ] Seagate 27.6% [29.2 M] 23.9% [31.5 M] Quantum 22.3% [23.6 M] 20.2% [26.6 M] WDC 18.5% [19.5 M] 19.5% [25.7 M] IBM 10.9% [11.5 M] 10.8% [14.2 M] Fujitsu 5.2% [ 5.5 M] 8.5% [11.2 M] Maxtor 5.4% [ 5.7 M] 6.4% [ 8.4 M] Toshiba 4.8% [ 5.1 M] 4.2% [ 5.5 M] Others 5.3% [ 5.6 M] 6.5% [ 8.6 M] Total 100.0% [105.6M] 100.0% [131.8M] Source: Mercury News (see #1319) 1996 Average number of platters per DD ~ 3 1996 Average number of heads per DD ~ 6 Source: DiskTrend or TrendFocus (see AXC 1/97 presentation)