History (1994): Terabyte System From EMC

EMC Corp. (Hopkinton, MA) was mainly ahead of IBM and PCMs in fast disks for mainframes.

The US company is going to try to enter more in the large computer centers with, for next quarter, high capacity, but slower, disk subsystems.

They will nevertheless be faster than IBM’s actual 3390 but slower than the Symmetrix.

The subsystem will hold several of Seagate’s new 9GB 5.25-inch HDDs. The maximum capacity should be 1TB.

Price per megabyte should be much lower than $6.

According to Buckingham Research, this Terabyte System could allow EMC to reach sales of $135 million in 1994 or 28% of its annual turnover.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠74, published on March 1994.