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To: Stitch who wrote (7321)	2/14/1998 1:18:00 AM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9124

Stitch, >There is a tremendous marriage of scientific disciplines in the design and manufacturer of disk drives. Unfortunately price and over capacity may have trivialized this understanding to a point we tend to overlook it.< Hence some people call DDs "commodities". Anyone who understands the complexity won't. But none of this impresses the customer who only pays 4 cents per MB. The DD industry has become a victim of its own success in pulling all these difficult disciplines together. To push for trade-offs of the kind you described was part of my job. Error rate targets were usually sacrosanct and component yields were sacrificed, if necessary, to achieve them. I don't recall an instance when we had error rate to burn. But you had a choice in how to get error rate improvements. Head people suggested to do it by tightening disk specs. Disk folks preferred channel improvements etc., etc. <vbg>. GM