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Monday 27 March 2017
Toshiba sees strong results from HDD and SSD businesses in 2016
Toshiba achieved strong results for its hard disc drive (HDD) and solid state drive (SSD) businesses in 2016 with both product lines showing stronger on-year shipment growths than...
Friday 10 March 2017
Seagate Technology focuses HDD R&D on SMR, TDMR, HAMR, says senior VP
Seagate Technology has focused 2016-2020 HDD R&D on shingled magnetic recording (SMR), two-dimensional MR (TDMR) and heat-assisted MR (HAMR), according to company senior vice...
Thursday 2 March 2017
Global HDD shipments in 2016 estimated at 425.8 million units, says IDEMA Japan
There were 425.8 million hard disk drives (HDDs) shipped globally in 2016, slipping 9.2% on year, and annual shipments kept decreasing from the peak of 651.4 million units in 2010,...
Wednesday 1 March 2017
SSD push for Seagate to complement its HDD business
Hard disk drive (HDD) players such as Seagate, have been pushing into the solid state drive (SSD) market via acquisitions or forming strategic alliances with SSD partners for the...
Monday 15 February 2016
Worldwide PELS market declines in 2015, says IDC
Worldwide personal and entry-level storage (PELS) shipments totaled 68.5 million units in 2015, representing a decline of 9.2% from a year ago, according to the IDC Worldwide Personal...
Thursday 21 January 2016
Seagate launches 10TB HDD
Seagate has launched 10TB helium hard drives targeting the enterprise sector. The hard disc drive (HDD) has already received orders from players such as Huawei and Alibaba.
Thursday 7 January 2016
Seagate pushing non-PC storage for 2016 with focus on surveillance applications
To strengthen its presence in the Asia Pacific market, Seagate is planning to continue pushing PC HDD sales and launch products for cloud computing, consumer electronics, surveillance...
Monday 7 December 2015
Western Digital, Seagate in 10TB HDD competition
Following Western Digital's releases of shingled magnetic recording (SMR)-based helium-filled 10TB hard disc drive (HDD) and perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR)-based 10TB HDD,...
Thursday 5 November 2015
Western Digital, Seagate see PCs growing less important to revenues
Hard disk drive (HDD) makers Western Digital and Seagate have announced their financial results for the third quarter and both makers are seeing their PC business revenue contributions...
Thursday 22 October 2015
Western Digital announces acquisition of SanDisk
Western Digital and SanDisk on October 21 announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Western Digital will acquire all of the outstanding shares of SanDisk...
Monday 22 June 2015
Western Digital, Seagate release new mobile HDDs
Western Digital and Seagate have both released new mobile hard disk drive (HDD) products recently as demand has been rising rapidly. Western Digital has launched mobile HDDs with...
Tuesday 28 April 2015
Global HDD demand to keep falling, says HGST executive
Global demand for hard disk drives (HDDs) of all sizes will continually decrease from 561 million units in 2014 to 550 million units in 2015 and further to 538 million units in 2016,...
Tuesday 17 February 2015
Use of helium-filled HDDs in data centers to drastically rise in 2015, says HGST president
A large increase in the use of helium-filled hard disk drives (HDDs) in data centers is expected in 2015 mainly because more platters can be held in an HDD of the same volume than...
Thursday 12 February 2015
InnoDisk smart flash memory storage solutions aiming for IoT devices
IoT devices, which have been receiving a great deal of attention from the global ICT industry have several major characteristics: versatility, reliability, security, small-size, mobility...
Tuesday 30 December 2014
HGST pushing new technologies to enhance storage capability
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), a subsidiary of Western Digital, has hosted a conference in Taipei, Taiwan, inviting its partners in the Greater China region to showcase...