Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
[Operator Instructions].
Bill Watkins
Let me make a comment, Matthew, right now. We are going to -- due to the fact we have so many people who want to ask questions, we're going to kind of limit it to one question and one follow-up per person.
Operator
Okay. With that said, I'll take our first question from Harry Blount with Lehman Brothers.
Harry Blount - Lehman Brothers
Thank you. You guys made some fairly meaningful progress on the finished good inventory sequentially in the quarter. But I also note that on a percentage growth basis, it's still up year-over-year more than revenue.
Obviously, with you guys growing retail, you'll have to carry a little bit more. But I'd love to get a sense from you, Charles, where you think finished good inventory ought to be on kind of a normalized basis.
Charles Pope
Harry, why don't I have Dave answer that question, but I think he'll answer it on a total turns basis, and kind of help you understand some of the things that are going into the model we have for inventory turns.
Bill Watkins
Yes. Before he does that, one of the things that we have to be careful today, with a lot of product transitions going forward, and as many different market segments we're trying to do product transitions. As we go through these qualifications, we've got to keep enough of the old inventory as we make this transition so we don't jeopardize our customers and their delivery systems, if you have delivered commitments.
So we are going to probably carry more finished goods of products going forward, just because of the massive amount of different market segments and product transitions we're trying to do, and keeping our customers whole as we go through these calls. So with that, Dave, do you want to answer?
Dave Wickersham
Just from an outlook perspective, as well as achievement, as you may note, we did achieve approximately 12 turns, as we anticipated in the December quarter. And we see that we'll probably continue to be in that range going forward.
And as it relates to finished goods, you know, our focus, as we've talked about in the December quarter, was ready to do a couple things. First is to focus on the depletion of the Maxtor finished goods and transition to Seagate going forward. And as discussed, with the approximate $200,000 in finished goods, we think we were successful are there.
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