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

To: T Bowl who wrote (3714)	6/15/1998 7:14:00 PM
From: Pierre-X	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

Todd, do you know what's going on in the performance IDE desktop-drive game? I saw, to my surprise, IBM 14.4 GB 7200RPM IDE units selling for ~$600 at yesterday's computer fair! Just so's y'all know I wasn't smoking dope here's the model #: DITA-371440 It seems odd to me that, with their 5400RPM DHEA series already pushing the UDMA-2 envelope, why the heck would they sell a 7200RPM IDE model? I was tempted but in the absence of full info I held off buying one. Instead I bought two of the 8.4GB DHEA series for $225/ea. I guess I'm living evidence of the tape->disk substitution effect that Yogi was hypothesizing earlier -- I do my backups disk-to-disk now instead of futzing around with slow, awkward tapes. God bless, PX ---- OK, I just found the info on the IBM site. The model # is DTTA not DITA, I misread the sticker. The DTTA series are the Deskstar 14GXP line -- what I saw yesterday were the first GMR desktop drives in the mass market channels -- tres cool! Now I wish I had bought one for bragging rights <g>. storage.ibm.com