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Technology Stocks : Adaptec (ADPT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Andy Hopper who wrote (970)	1/30/1998 12:10:00 AM
From: Bob Huff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5944

Adaptec's response to Ultra DMA: adaptec.com Ultra DMA aside, I think our stock is going to tread water for some time. What little momentum we had has been squashed by these various lawsuits. I don't what the hell to make of them. As for my own take on this SCSI/UDMA controversy, I don't know of a EIDE drive that can transfer 33 MB/s internally. Plus the actual data throughput would be less than the internal transfer rate. Simply put, the drive can't keep up with the controller. SCSI handles multiple devices concurrently. One device does not impede the usage of another on the SCSI bus. Very nice for a multitasking environment. Nobody is saying SCSI is the solution for the average home user. Leave the home Internet and Quicken user to Packard Bell and their mediocre components for all I care. You walk into Comp USA or Best Buy and none of the retail PCs have an Adaptec component. They never have and they never will. That's not their target market, and if it is we're all in trouble, because it's not going to happen. But there is a channel, a VERY BIG one, that of the high-end PC. That sector that demands optimal performance in their bandwidth solutions. My Seagate Barracuda coupled with an Adaptec 2940UW handles my hardware simulations and CAD work just fine. This channel combined with the server market has served Adpatec very well for many years, and I see that continuing going forward. My two cents. Still holding... Bob