Breakthrough Technology from IBM Enables New Record-Breaking Desktop PC Hard Drives.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 1997--IBM today announced the world's highest capacity desktop PC disk drive with new breakthrough technology called "Giant Magnetoresistive See magnetoresistance. (GMR (Giant Magnetoresistance) See magnetoresistance. )" heads. IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) is the first company to offer disk drive products with this component. The drives will be available for the first time next month. Pioneered by scientists at IBM Research IBM Research, a division of IBM, is a research and advanced development organization and currently consists of eight locations throughout the world and hundreds of projects. , GMR heads will be used in IBM's new Deskstar 16GP, a 16.8-gige products. With it, Deskstar 16GP brings high-powered workstation capacity and performance to the average desktop PC user. It makes storage-intensive multimedia busiart of the drive called the platter. This is of performance storage products at IBM's Stor of users, from the home PC 3-D game enthusiast, to the most advanced desktop computer design engineer," add drives with GMR." For those requiring eoice of three different capacities ranging from 10.1 to 14.4 gigabytes. The company's 5400 RPM Deskstar 16Grs can download web movies, install storage-hungry application programs, save high-resolution digital imaghipping next month to several customers worldwe computing," said Bill Peterson William E. "Bill" Peterson (born 1920; died August 5, 1993) was an American football coach. His career included head coaching stops at Florida State, Rice University and with the Houston Oilers. , Dell Dimension Jim Collas, senior vice president of Global Products at Gateway 2000. From Research to Product, Rapidl. "We recognized the practical importance of 2GB, 5400 RPM, 5.56 ms average latency, 33.3 MB bits per square inch areal density, 630 grams, e transfer rate with Ultra DMA Mode-2, 5/5/4 disk platters, 10/8/7 GMR recording heads, 2.440 billion bitsion on IBM hard drives and a white paper on GMR,y at Bally's Hotel and Casino during Fall COMDd trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. CONTACT: IBM Storage Systems Division Michelle McIntyre/Veronica Lopez, 408-256-7589/408-256-7573 mc@us.ibm.com/vlopez@us.ibm.com |
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