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Technology Stocks : QUANTUM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RFF who wrote (7717)	4/7/1998 1:40:00 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9124

Not only is this just a call for people to begin developing products, and there are no dates, there is really skimpy info on their web site. And no dates for their migration paths. And the DLT announcement from yesterday blows away this one. For example, consider: <<With these four new technologies, Quantum expects to deliver major new extensions to its successful DLTtape architecture. Using the enhanced architecture -- Super DLTtape -- Quantum plans to market a new family of competitively priced tape storage products that range in capacity from 100 GB up to 500 GB and range in transfer rates from 10 MB/sec to 40 MB/sec (uncompressed).>> On the LTO website, they have the following migration path for their high end Ultrium product: Generation 1: 100 GB native capacity, 10-20 mb/sec native transfer rate Generation 2: 200 GB nat. cap., 20-40 MB/sec nat. trans.* Generation 3: 400 GB nat. cap., 40-80 MB/sec nat. trans.* Generation 4: 800 GB nat. cap., 180-60[sic] MB/sec nat. trans.* (They have a note saying that HWP, IBM and SEG "reserve the right to change the information in this migration path without notice." In other words, capacity won't catch DLT until Generation 3, transfer rate won't catch them until Generation 2, and who knows when generation 1 products will even be ready, while Super-DLT will (we holders of QNTM hope) be ready by mid-1999. I also can't believe that they have adequately tested things like tape durability and reliability in the amount of time that they have had to develop this product. I think that this is a non-announcement. I would like to hear from others, though (especially Z and Gus, if they are still listening and haven't deserted the thread altogether!). Sam