Hard drive makers expect their shipments in the fourth quarter to only remain flat and they might even drop slightly by 1-2% sequentially, as weak back-to-school demand has created...
The price premium of solid state drives (SSD) over hard disk drives (HDD) should narrow to 20% from the current 40%, to allow it to gain wide consumer acceptance, according to Scott...
As demand for white-box PCs in emerging markets such as Thailand, Indonesia and India is rising, Taiwan-based hard drive component maker Min Aik Technology expects its shipments in...
Despite IT market already having entered the back-to-school season, weak notebook demand is expected to cause hard drive shipments to stay flat sequentially in the third quarter;...
A drop in hard drive demand in the second quarter of 2010 could signal a slowdown in the rampant growth of the PC market in the second half of the year, according to The Information...
Global shipments of built-in and external hard disk drives (HDDs) in the third quarter of 2010 are expected to reach 175 million units, down from the previously estimated volume of...
Hard drive quotes in Taiwan at the end of June dropped 10-20% compared to levels seen at the beginning of the second quarter, according to sources from hard drive players.
Hard drive makers have recently started downward adjusting their shipment forecasts for the second quarter due to Europe's financial troubles as well as reducing their third- and...
Seagate Technology on May 24, 2010 unveiled Momentus XT drive, a hybrid hard disk drive (HDD) series that combines 7,200rpm hard disk platters and a 4GB SSD (solid-state drive) made...
Ending its perpetual encampment in second place, Western Digital in the first quarter of 2010 shipped the most hard drive disks (HDD) of any storage supplier, surpassing Seagate Technology...
Western Digital (WD) came close to taking the lead in the global hard disk drive (HDD) market in 2009, but a surge in desktop sales kept Seagate in the lead for the year, according...
Jim Handy joined semiconductor market researchers at Objective Analysis after more than 30 years in the electronics industry that included 14 years as an industry analyst for Dataquest...
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) on April 14 unveiled its external hard disk drives (HDDs) for launch in the Taiwan market, including the portable X Mobile Drive...
Kingston Technology's shipments of low-priced solid-state drives (SSD) have nearly reached 30,000 units so far this month, according to industry sources. Along with Intel's push of...
Seagate Technology in the fourth quarter of 2009 maintained its perch at the top as the world's largest manufacturer of hard disk drives (HDD), fending off a strong challenge by perennial...
