QUANTUM DEVELOPS THIRD GENERATION HARD DRIVE INTERFACE.Quantum Corp.'s Hard Disk Drive Group (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : HDD (Hard Disk Drive) See hard disk and HDD caddy. HDD - hard disk drive ) announced the availability of Ultra ATA/100 - a new high-speed hard disk drive interface designed to enhance data integrity, speed data transfers, and avert future data gridlock between computers and hard drives. Ultra ATA/100 is the third generation of patented, hard drive interface technology developed and introduced by Quantum. Intel Corp. and other leading chip manufacturers as well as the world's leading personal computer and hard disk drive manufacturers support the interface. Ultra ATA/100 will be available in Quantum products shipping in the fall of 2000, delivering data throughput of 100 megabytes per second (unit) megabytes per second - (MBps, MB/s) Millions of bytes per second. A unit of data rate. 1 MB/s = 1,000,000 bytes per second (not 1,048,576). . Acer, Compaq Computer Corp., Dell Computer Corp., Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Corp. all have plans to offer future computer systems using the ATA/100 interface. |
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