IBM announces record-breaking 8.4-gigabyte desktop PC hard drive.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)--June 12, 1997--IBM today announced a record-breaking 8.4-gigabyte hard disk drive for high-performance desktop personal computers. Called Deskstar 8, it holds four times as much information as the average desktop drive. Smaller than a paperback romance novel A romance novel is a literary genre developed in Western culture, mainly in English-speaking countries. To be considered a part of the romance genre, a novel should place its primary focus on the relationship and romantic love between two people, and must have an "emotionally , Deskstar 8 can hold enough information which when printed would make a stack of double-spaced typewritten type·write intr. & tr.v. type·wrote , type·writ·ten , type·writ·ing, type·writes To engage in writing or to write (matter) with a typewriter. pages taller than the Eiffel Tower Eiffel Tower, structure designed by A. G. Eiffel and erected in the Champ-de-Mars for the Paris exposition of 1889. The tower is 984 ft (300 m) high and consists of an iron framework supported on four masonry piers, from which rise four columns uniting to form one (see photo). The world's first desktop PC drive with IBM's MRX MRX Mission Rehearsal Exercise (US DoD) MRX Mental Retardation, X-Linked MRX Magneto-Resistive Extended MRX Magnetic Resonance, Soft Spectrum Coupled X-Ray Laser (Magnetoresistive See magnetoresistance. Extended) head technology, Deskstar 8 sets a new desktop drive density world record at 1.74 billion bits per square inch. No bigger than the head of a pin, the MRX head technology component sends out stronger signals than the older head, meaning it can read and write larger volumes of information in a smaller space. "We're marketing this drive to the high-performance desktop PC drive market, where business and home users demand the highest capacity disk drives," according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Kevin Reinis, director of desktop and entry server storage products at IBM's Storage Systems Division, explaining that Deskstar 8 is for the "performance" user. Performance PC users need high capacity, fast storage solutions like Deskstar 8, for their video, data and graphic-intensive applications. One minute of video on the PC, for example, can take up to 200 megabytes. Deskstar 8, expected to ship in July, features Ultra Direct Memory Access/33 (DMA/33) technology which contributes to increased performance of the drive. For more information about IBM's hard disk drives, call 1-800-IBM-7777 and request Dept. star 30 or access its Web page at http://www.storage.ibm.com . Deskstar 8 Specifications 3.5-inch, 8.4 GB, 5400 RPM, ATA-3 interface, 9.5 msec average seek, 4 disks, 1.74 billion bits per square inch areal density, 512KB data buffer, 5.6 ms average latency, 5.8 MB/sec minimum sustained transfer rate, 76.2-127.4 MB/sec media data rate. MRX head technology, 33 MB/sec internal transfer rate with Ultra DMA/33 Mode-2, Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (storage) Partial Response Maximum Likelihood - (PRML) A method for converting the weak analog signal from the head of a magnetic disk drive into a digital signal. PRML attempts to correctly interpret even small changes in the analog signal, whereas peak detection relies on fixed (P.R.M.L.) digital channels, Self-Monitoring and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) enabled, and No-ID sector format technology. These technologies combined increase the capacity, reliability and performance of the Deskstar 8. -0- Note to Editors: No-ID sector format and IBM are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corp. CONTACT: IBM Storage Systems Division Michelle McIntyre, 408/256-7589 mmcintyre@sjmvm15.vnet.ibm.com Veronica Lopez, 408/256-7573 vlopez@vnet.ibm.com |
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