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SanDisk upgrade drive takes SSDs to Extremes

There's a growing interest in solid state disk drives (SSDs) as a way to speed up ultraportable laptops, thanks partly... Read more

15 February, 2012

Seagate: Hard-drive supply won't meet demand in 2012

...second quarter 2012 on Wednesday afternoon, stating it shipped approximately 47 million disk drives, which included around 700,000 Samsung disk drives.Revenue is expected... Read more

5 January, 2012 by Brooke Crothers

Micron sees SSD demand rise in wake of Thai floods

...flooding in Thailand. Since late summer, the prices of traditional spinning hard disk drives have been steadily rising because of shortages due to flooding in... Read more

1 December, 2011 by Brooke Crothers

Thailand's floods will cause a shortage of hard drives

...catastrophic flooding in Thailand will lead to "a significant shortage" of hard disk drives, according to IHS iSuppli, A US-based market research company. This... Read more

1 November, 2011

Disk performance hits the wall

Disk drives have come a long way from the massive rotating plates of... Read more

25 July, 2011

Seagate and Archos develop tablets with hard drives

...Archos has introduced two new tablet computers with Seagate physical hard disk drives on board. Archos has introduced two new tablet computers with 7mm... Read more

24 June, 2011 by Rachel King

Teradata launches hybrid data-warehouse appliance

...tiering on autopilot as it is shuttled between solid-state and hard-disk drives. The appliance, the Active EDW 6680, comes in four flavours that... Read more

11 April, 2011 by Larry Dignan

Toshiba launches MacBook Air SSDs for the mass market

Toshiba has announced a new range of solid state disk drives (SSD) , but two of the three models have already appeared with... Read more

8 November, 2010
Ten tips to cut the risk of hard-drive crashes

Ten tips to cut the risk of hard-drive crashes

Disk drives seem cheap these days but losing data is not, so adopt... Read more

25 February, 2011 by Jack Wallen
CES: Marvell unveils SSD and HDD hybrid

CES: Marvell unveils SSD and HDD hybrid

...that brings the benefits of solid-state drives to devices with hard-disk drives Read more

5 January, 2011 by Dong Ngo
Delivering Storage Quality of Service with Oracle Pillar Axiom 600

Delivering Storage Quality of Service with Oracle Pillar Axiom 600

...been dealing with storage performance or Quality of Service (QoS) issues since disk drives were first commercialized. This problem has worsened over time as processors... Read more

1 December, 2011
Principles of Operation for Shingled Disk Devices

Principles of Operation for Shingled Disk Devices

A leading strategy for driving the areal density of magnetic disk drives through 1 - 10 terabit/inch (the coming decade) is to shingle... Read more

1 April, 2011
PRISM: Zooming in Persistent RAM Storage Behavior

PRISM: Zooming in Persistent RAM Storage Behavior

...been foreseen that some of the roles assumed by conventional rotating Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) will migrate to Solid-State Drives (SSDs) and emerging persistent... Read more

24 February, 2011
SSD Bufferpool Extensions for Database Systems

SSD Bufferpool Extensions for Database Systems

...Disks (SSDs) provide much faster access to data compared to conventional hard disk drives. The authors present a technique for using solid-state storage as... Read more

11 August, 2010
Seagate Uses Teamcenter to Advance Green Market Opportunities

Seagate Uses Teamcenter to Advance Green Market Opportunities

Seagate is the world's leading manufacturer of hard disk drives. Seagate wanted to regulate market requirements to avoid environmentally harmful substances... Read more

1 August, 2010

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