The standard in high-capacity 5.25 Winchesters has shot up to 780Mb, and Hitachi Ltd is up there with the likes Maxtor Corp and Siemens AG: its DK515-78 has ESDI interface and formats to 673Mb, at $3,100 in sample quantities, its DK515C-78 SCSI drive formats to 660.9Mb and costs $3,200 in OEM quantities; they use thin-film sputtered media and ferrite heads, and they have an average seek time of 16mS.
DETAILS ON HITACHI’S WINCHESTERS
