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To: T Bowl who wrote (8517)	1/26/1998 8:04:00 PM
From: Thomas Haegin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11057

Todd, << The biggest DD WDC makes is the 6.4GB caviar because it's only a 3 platter DD. Why 3 platter? Why not 4? Are they about to get lost in the quick tansition to the higher capacity DDs? Has anyone heard any plans for the 2.8GB Chandler family? Is it a 4 platter DD or still a 3 platter? >> I think on the WDC website they feature a 9+GB SCSI drive. But for IDE, I think the 6.4 GB is the biggest as of now. Frankly I do not know of any "Chandler" line. Is this really new stuff? I thought they only had Caviar and the new SCSI series. WDC recently announced they wanted to get out of drive for notepads and mobile systems, if I remember correctly. I could definitely be wrong on a couple of things in the above paragraph. Shall we call WDC IR and ask for "Chandler"? Thomas

To: T Bowl who wrote (8517)	1/27/1998 2:55:00 PM
From: John Wang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11057

Todd: <<Why 3 platter? Why not 4? >> I had the same question previously. There got to be some reason for WDC not to consider 4 platter desktop HDD in the past. That does not mean that they don't have the technology to build 4 platter drives. Look at WDC 9G SCSI and it is a 6 platter drives. The reason may be that 4 platter market is small and does not warrant the additional overhead on chips because the same chips used for 4 platter drives will be used for 1, 2 and 3 platter drives. To have ASIC chips for 4 platters require larger die size and therfore slightly higher cost. And, the major volumes are in the 1-, 2- 3- platters. I would hope that someone can give better reason. John