Re: IDE drive Bill of Materials

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From: Erwin van Londen
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 05:53

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You can not retrieve the cost of a drive of the components that are in 
that drive. It's the development of those drives that make the costs.

Grtx,
Erwin van Londen

Anu wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm a newbie so please be patient.
> 
> I am trying to determine the cost drivers of ide hard drives. What are the
> different components and their cost contribution? The end game is to
> determine the bottom cost of a drive if
> performance and density constraints can be relaxed (i.e. the lowest cost to
> manufacture a "small, slow drive".)
> 
> Cost drivers identified so far are:
>     1. # of platters
>     2. # of heads
>     3. Embedded servo vs. dedicated servo
>     4. Spindle motor speed
>     5. Onboard logic (don't know if this is variable cost i.e. can use
> cheaper DSPs/controllers)
> 
> Don't know the percentage contribution, nor absolute numbers for these as
> relates to HDD cost. Hard numbers would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I'm sure this has been discussed previously so I apologise in advance for
> wasting b/w.
> 
> Thanks,
> Anupam
> 
> 
> 
>

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