Ron Seybold writes...
 
>Expect HP to be moving ever upward in capacities they're willing to build.
>Smaller drives will become something that other makers will be more likely
>to manufacture. HP sells a lot of drives, but I don't know if they're
>willing to get into commodity-volume lines. Believe it or not, 2Gb is
>headed for that designation soon. When you consider the test and design
>extras HP throws into its versions of SCSI drives, they may not be willing
>to invest that kind of effort on many different sizes of drives. Once they
>start selling 8.75Gb units for 3000s -- by my guess, sometime next year --
>it may be the extra unit that pushes the 2Gb units out of HP's
>manufacturing line.
 
hmmm..
 
Does this mean that until they get the transfer rates up to match
the potential volume for a fairly full 8gb drive, we will see
systems with a bunch of 8gb drives at only 25% full because of
transfer rate/performance problems?
 
Elbert