Design considerations for the DASTEK 4830 disk drive

The DASTEK 4830 Disk Drive is designed to provide minicomputer original equipment manufacturers (OEM) with direct access storage having the performance, reliability, and cost/MB characteristics of drives attached to large mainframe computers. This was accomplished by utilizing state-of-the -art technologies in the areas of read/write heads, media, data encoding/decoding, and read/write head positioning as well as packaging improvements and microprocessor based electronics.