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Technology Stocks : Disk Drive Sector Discussion Forum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ted The Technician who wrote (3549)	6/8/1998 6:39:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9256

TTT, you asked >How significant is Terastor's announcement?< The drives are slow, so should be useful for archiving. Don't expect to see them in PCs. The 20 GB drive is targeted to ship a year from now. Maybe they'll cut into the market for tape backup. I wouldn't worry till the drives can access BOTH sides of a disk. Also, the pricing for the media has not been announced. Quantum and Seagate have agreements with Terastore. From the announcement... [snip] Preliminary Specifications for the TeraStor Product Family Formatted Capacity 10GB 20GB Form Factor 5.25" Half-High 5.25" Half-High Average Seek Times less than 18 ms less than 18 ms Maximum Transfer Rate Internal (Sustained) - greater than greater than 6MB/Second 11MB/Second External (Burst) - 40MB/Second 40MB/Second Interface Wide Ultra SCSI Wide Ultra SCSI NFR technology, in addition to providing the industry's highest-capacity random access removable storage products, also provides lower cost of storage compared to other removable storage products such as tape and magneto-optical (MO). Pricing and Availability The 10GB drive, with first shipment scheduled in the fourth quarter of 1998, is expected to have a manufacturers suggested retail price (MSRP) of between $699 and $799. The 20GB drive, with targeted availability in the second quarter of 1999, is expected to have an MSRP of between $999 and $1,199. Media cartridge availability for the 10GB and 20GB drives will coincide with the shipment dates of each drive. [snip]