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History (1990): 170,000 Writable Optical Drives Shipped – Rothchild Consultants

Expected to grow to 3.5 million in next 3 years

There are no more than 170,000 writable optical drives in use worldwide,” this is what you can read in the Rothchild Consultants (San Francisco, CA) study named Optical Memory Report ($1,995).

It’s a review on optical drives and media, subsystems, image systems and jukeboxes. The number of these drives is expected to grow to over 3.5 million in the next 3 years.

The installed base for professional CD-ROM readers will grow from 388,000 units to 4.3 million by end of 1993.

In the 5.25-inch market, 41% of all writable drives which have been shipped are rewritable (magneto-optical) type while another 35%t are the write once type.

Rothchild also believes that more than 21,000 optical disk-based image systems (using over 50,000 workstations) have been installed, with 2,000 in USA, 18,300 in Japan and 1,410 elsewhere.

Earlier this year, the consulting firm estimated that 1,720 12-inch optical disk jukeboxes had been installed next to 797 in the 5.25-inch format.

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This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠29, published on June 1990.

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