With thismethod, a new storage system with 16 hard diskisrealized by keeping the present computer hard disk design, addingaCPLD chip andthree 74HC16245gate drivers.
To everyone's surprise, including their own, the young architects won with a dramatic design of a great tilted disk, a very fast professional start that produced an extraordinary building 12 years later, in 2001.
However, the new drive will be significantly slower when writing to the older 100MB disks -- because of the head design changes needed to increase per-disk capacity.