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Tuesday 19 April 2011
Seagate buying Samsung HDD department rumor unlikely to occur shortly
Rumor about hard drive maker Seagate may purchase Samsung Electronics' hard drive business has been spreading in IT market after report about Samsung considering selling its hard...
Thursday 24 March 2011
HDD components grow 25% in 2010, says Information Network
While the hard disk drive (HDD) market recorded disk drive unit shipment growth of 17.1% in 2010, component manufacturers such as heads and suspensions grew 24.7%, according to The...
Thursday 3 March 2011
Hard drive shipments expected to see a double-digit growth sequentially in 2Q11
Hard drive shipments in the first quarter of 2011 are expected to see a sequential drop of 4-5% to only about 155-165 million units as notebook vendors face inventory pressure generated...
Wednesday 23 February 2011
Western Digital unseats Seagate in 2010, says Information Network
Western Digital (WD) took command of the hard disk drive (HDD) market in 2010 from long-time leader Seagate on the strength of its market momentum in mobile computing, according to...
Thursday 13 January 2011
HDD component maker Min Aik expects double-digital growth in 2011 shipments
Taiwan-based hard disk drive (HDD) component maker Min Aik Technology has announced revenues of NT$3.1 billion (US$106.69 million) for the fourth quarter of 2010, up 2.89% on quarter...
Thursday 16 December 2010
Hard drives have a happy holiday, says iSuppli
Manufacturers of hard disk drives (HDD) are expected to receive a late-year boost during the holiday season as shipments rally during the fourth quarter, according to market research...
Friday 13 August 2010
Samsung, Seagate team up to co-develop SSD controllers
Samsung Electronics and Seagate Technology have announced plans to jointly develop and cross license controller technologies for enterprise-class solid state drives (SSD).
Monday 21 June 2010
Prospects of hybrid HDDs in notebook market: Q&A with Seagate's Teh Ban-seng
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...
Thursday 13 May 2010
Western Digital likely to unseat Seagate in 2010, says The Information Network
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...
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Seagate leads in 4Q09 HDD market, says iSuppli
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...
Friday 11 December 2009
Supply of 3.5-inch HDDs tight until March 2010, say Taiwan PC makers
Supply of 3.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs) for use in desktops and servers has fallen short of demand and the tight supply is unlikely to ease until March 2010, according to Taiwan-based...
Wednesday 7 January 2009
Taiwan market: Seagate to launch 3.5-inch HDD Barracuda 7200.12
Seagate Technology on January 7 unveiled Barracuda 7200.12, its 3.5-inch 7,200rpm hard disk drive (HDD) with a storage capacity of 500GB a platter, for launch in the Taiwan market...
Tuesday 16 December 2008
HDD vendors to offer low-cost 2.5-inch HDDs for netbooks in 2009, say Taiwan makers
Seagate Technology, Western Digital and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, in response to the calls for cost reductions from PC vendors, are developing low-cost 2.5-inch hard disk...
Monday 22 September 2008
Taiwan market: Seagate launches FreeAgent series external hard drives
Seagate Technology on September 19 announced the launch of its new FreeAgent series external hard disk drives, consisting of 2.5-inch FreeAgent GO for mobile use as well as the 3.5-inch...
Wednesday 23 July 2008
Insatiable demand carries HDDs through recession
Despite a poor second-quarter earnings performance from leading Hard Disk Drive (HDD) supplier Seagate Technology, the overall HDD industry is continuing to thrive in 2008 due to...