Storage Dimensions of San Jose, California has launched SpeedStor/2, a range of hard disk and erasable optical storage systems for OS/2: designed for high-end personal computers running in OS/2 and LAN Manager environments, the family consists of internal and external hard disk subsystems in 200Mb, 330Mb, 650Mb and 1Gb capacities with multidrive configurations expandable to 24Gb; erasable optical subsystems are also available, supporting both 650Mb and 1Gb removable cartridges, and all subsystems use SCSI interface technology; they have the disks have seek times of 15mS and data transfer rates of 2.9Mb per second, while the erasable optical subsystem has a seek time of 35mS and 10Mbit per second data transfer rate; the subsystems have a high-speed BusMaster SCSI host adaptor with a dedicated, on-board microprocessor, adaptors; the hard disk subsystems have a two year warranty, and erasable optical models carry a one-year warranty; prices start at $2,180 for the 200Mb model and the external subsystems start at $3,125; the single-drive erasable optical subsystem costs $8,500.
