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To: Z Analyzer who wrote (7369)	2/18/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: Stitch	Respond to of 9124

Z, << Are these actually second actuators or are they talking about micro actuators>> My apologies, I have searched for the material that was handed out at the time I saw the Fujitsu and IBM presentations to see if the re: was made to micro actuators. I will check it out through another source as now I am also curious about this. Question for you (or anyone) When you say internal data rate how does that relate to transfer rate? Is internal data rate the bit rate passing through the pre amp? Best, Stitch

To: Z Analyzer who wrote (7369)	2/19/1998 12:17:00 AM
From: John Biddle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9124

. . . I believe John is working under the assumption that internal data rates are the bottleneck rather than the drive interface which is actually much slower than existing internal data transfer rates. Yes, I do believe that internal data rates are the limiting factor. Quantum seems to think so too. Stats on Quantum Atlas III from Quantum web site say internal transfer rate is 180 Megabits per second, and Ultra SCSI is 80 MegaBytes per second or almost 5 times greater.