History (1997): Quantum Reduces Price of SSDs

Quantum reduced the price of its solid state disks ESP 3000 and 5000 by 10 to 40%, reflecting the drop in DRAM pricing.

The electronic memories range from 134 to 804MB in a 3.5-inch form factor, and up to 950MB in 5.25-inch.

An entry level system thus drops from $10,500 to $7,500, a price per megabyte of $56.

Note that Amdahl recently integrated Quantum’s solid state technology into its Logical Volume Series (LVS) storage systems.

This article is an abstract of news published on ≠115 on August 1997 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.