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The 2.5-Inch Hard Disk Drive Delivers Home Entertainment: Trends, Advances and Opportunities in the Consumer Electronics Market
White Papers The DVR in particular presents a rapidly expanding market opportunity for manufacturers. This paper highlights the consumer trends, technical advances and design opportunities that 2.5" HDDs present to device manufacturers to deliver new DVR...
[June 11, 2009, 1:20]
Hard disk drive sales boom
News An estimated 126 million hard disk units will ship this year, compared to 105 million in 1996. While the report indicates that 3.5-inch drives still dominate the market with an expected 106 million drives this year, largest growth is expected in...
[June 13, 1997, 15:20]
Five years ago: Hard disk drive sales boom
News An estimated 126 million hard disk units will ship this year, compared to 105 million in 1996. While the report indicates that 3.5-inch drives still dominate the market with an expected 106 million drives this year, largest growth is expected in...
[June 14, 2002, 7:32]
Quarterdeck enters disk partition market
News VAT) is a Windows 95 native implementation that lets novice users quickly create, compress, resize, move and delete hard drive partitions through hand-holding Wizard help. Based on technology it acquired with the purchase of Vertisoft last year...
[February 21, 1997, 10:17]
Samsung launches two-platter 1TB disk drive
News Samsung has taken advantage of rising hard-disk memory storage densities to launch a new line of high-end products with capacities of up to 1TB. On Monday, Western Digital announced a 2.5-inch laptop hard drive with 1TB of storage, currently the...
[July 30, 2009, 16:20]
Hard drive market bottoms out
News Poor results from Seagate and Quantum and the demise of vendors such as Micropolis have tarnished the hard disk drive market image but Twohig stands by the report made last June by US research company Disk/Trend that the worldwide market for hard...
[January 23, 1998, 15:27]
Quantum to cut up to 800 jobs, take $50m charge
News Quantum executives blamed "destructive pricing pressures" by other disk drive makers to gain market share. Quantum's hard disk drive group said Thursday it will cut as many as 800 jobs and take a $50m (£31m) charge in its second quarter in an...
[August 20, 1999, 9:48]
Grim times for hard drives
News The disk drive industry is spinning its wheels, according to a new report. And the number of drive makers had shrunk to a handful after Quantum sold its hard-drive business to Maxtor, and Hitachi bought IBM's disk drive division.
[May 28, 2004, 9:50]
Toshiba snaps up Fujitsu HDD business
News Japanese electronics manufacturer Toshiba has agreed to buy Fujitsu's hard-disk drive business, in a move aimed at expanding its footprint in the enterprise storage market. Under the agreement, Fujitsu will transfer all its hard-disk drive (HDD...
[February 17, 2009, 10:48]
Magicstor puts 4.8GB in one-inch drive
News The market is slowly heating up for small disk drives, which are finding their way into products such as music players. That's still a small fraction of the overall market for disk drives. By using the same, current technologies available for the...
[January 8, 2004, 9:20]
Disk drive stocks down and due to stay there
News Collectively, the trio and IBM owned 80 percent of the disk drive market. Wishful thinking like that gave disk-drive stocks a boost in February and then again in early May but the message now is "Don't fall for the ‘worst is over' mantra.
[June 11, 1998, 12:11]
Samsung promotes flash drives for PCs
News The move to a flash-based disk comes as Samsung, a leader in the flash memory market, tries to double the density of flash memory year by year while driving down cost and increasing the number of markets it can sell flash memory into.
[May 24, 2005, 9:35]
Samsung to enter miniature drive market
News Samsung's disk drive strategy is focused on parts of the market that are growing. That segment of the disk drive market isn't projected to grow much between now and 2008, according to industry analysts Gartner.
[October 11, 2004, 11:10]
4GB mobile phone just around the corner
News Fresh from reaching a partial settlement with rival Seagate, Cornice has launched a 2.5cm disk drive that will fit easily into mobile phones, GPRS devices or very small MP3 devices but has a substantial 4.0 GB capacity.
[July 19, 2005, 14:25]
Hitachi slides faster drive into notebooks
News They are going in the right direction," said Jim Porter, president of market research firm Disk/Trend. Overall, the 7,200-rpm disk consumes about the same amount of energy as existing 5,400-rpm notebook drives.
[May 14, 2003, 14:44]
Disk storage faces gloomier outlook
News Cox said HP's decline in the Gartner report owed to distribution problems as well as weak products in the midrange disk storage market. External, controller-based RAID disk storage products use "redundant array of independent disks" technology to...
[September 3, 2004, 11:45]
Mobile hard drive revolution proposed
News But Jim Porter, analyst at researcher Disk/Trend, warned that device makers will be wary about turning away from disk drive standards to a more custom approach. Disk drives have been expanding from their historical role in computers to become...
[October 11, 2004, 15:10]
ST-Micropolis plans assault on WD, Seagate
News Hewlett-Packard's (HP) recent departure from the hard disk drive business, taking a charge of $150m against third quarter 1996 revenues, might look like a big drop in competition in the storage business, but another vendor has stepped in to fill...
[July 19, 1996, 14:29]
Does Zip have a future?
News The USB 2.0 drive will sell for $180 (£110) while a disk will cost $14.95 (£9) singly or $12.49 (£7.50) in packs of eight. The disk's capacity of 100MB -- and later 250MB -- could not compete with 650MB CDs or 4.7GB DVDs, particularly as trading of...
[August 15, 2002, 10:43]
Sales of MP3 players expected to soar
News However, IDC expects that more manufacturers will enter the market and begin to use less expensive and higher-capacity storage, such as hard disk drives and CD-rewritable discs. Some of these categories are already popping up in the form of...
[March 29, 2001, 8:37]
