Re: IDE drive Bill of Materials

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From: Bill Todd
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:21

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"Anu" <scharmialam@attbi.com> wrote in message
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> 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".)

There's an excellent chance that the cheapest way to get a small, slow drive
is simply to buy the cheapest commodity IDE drive on the market and pretend
it's smaller and slower.  It's really, really hard to beat the economics of
volume.

- bill

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