Get More from Your Hard Drive

February 1998 / What's New / Get More from Your Hard Drive

IBM harnessed the capacity of its denser Giant Magnetoresistive head technology to build the Deskstar 16GP, a 16.8-GB drive that's built for the desktop. The hard drive, which costs $849, makes multimedia and entertainment applications more feasible for PCs. IBM estimates that this drive, whi ch has an areal density of 2.687 billion bits per square inch, is sufficient for users to download and store 8 hours of MPEG-2 full-motion video.
Contact:  IBM Storage Systems Division, San Jose, CA
Phone:    800-426-7777
Internet: http://www.ibm.com/storage
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