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

To: La Traguhs who wrote (5936)	3/26/1999 9:22:00 PM
From: Frodo Baxter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9256

I don't know what corporate power users "need." I know what they buy, and that's whatever $2000-$2500. I'm still trying to figure out this newfangled feature on my Intel Inside called MMX... The U4 and Conner both can accommodate 2 plates; how much different is that from WDC and Quantum's 3 plate platforms? Quantify your fixation with non-de-populated... I say $5 tops. Which is not enough to compensate for lagging time to market. But anyhoo, if indeed there's a motherlode of savings to be had for low plate designs, doesn't Quantum's 8 plate Atlas IV 36GB trounce Seagate's 10 plate Cuda? Likewise WDC's forthcoming 4 plate 10K 18GB drive topping Seagate's 6 plate Cheetah? >You point to your favorite example Quantum. You mean to tell me that the mainstream, high volume desktop computing world wouldn't be happy with the capacity offered by the single platter, 6.5 GB, GMR Quantum drive (using their 6.8GB/platter media)? I think so especially if Quantum designed it as a single platter drive instead of de-populating it from a four platter design. Quantum already has a single platter 6; it is called Bigfoot TS, and has been out for a year. For many months, Quantum owned the cheapie market, reaching as high as 50% marketshare. They're exiting this segment to drive performance upward. I suspect the 7200rpm transition will happen faster than projections indicate. And guess which company will be left in the dust, yet again.