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Tuesday 16 March 2010
HDD market to maintain momentum in 2010, says The Information Network
Hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturers repositioned themselves in this Great Recession, managing to show growth in 2009, according to a recently published report by The Information Ne...
Friday 12 March 2010
Computer storage market set to resume growth in 2010, says iSuppli
After suffering a decline in 2009, global revenues from shipments of hard disk drives (HDDs) and optical disk drives (ODDs) used in computers is expected to grow in 2010 as PC shipments...
Friday 5 March 2010
Apple iPad may delay transition to SSD, say hard drive makers
The appearance of Apple's iPad may create tight supply of NAND flash and delay the transition to solid-state drives (SSD) in PCs, according to sources from hard drive makers.
Friday 25 December 2009
ECS retail subsidiary in China to apply for listing on TSE in 2011
Elitegroup Computer System (ECS) expects its subsidiary, the China-based channel retailer Orbbit, to apply for listing on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) in 2011, according to Orbbit...
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...
Thursday 22 October 2009
Toshiba increases market share on Fujitsu hard drive takeover
Toshiba is estimated to have grabbed a 13.2% share of the global hard disk drive (HDD) market following its takeover of Fujitsu's hard drive operations, according to industry sourc...
Friday 18 September 2009
HDD supply to remain tight until end of 2009, says Western Digital Taiwan
The global supply of hard disk drives (HDDs) for PC ODM makers has been tight due to rebounding demand in emerging markets in May-June 2009 and then in the US and Europe in July-August,...
Thursday 10 September 2009
Samsung and Toshiba push 2.5-inch hard drives to 640GB
Samsung Electronics has strengthened its lineup of 2.5-inch hard disk drives (HDDs), following a similar move by Toshiba. Both companies now offer models featuring capacity up to...
Thursday 9 July 2009
Samsung launches new 250GB 1.8-inch HDD
Strengthening its line up of portable 1.8-inch hard drives for external storage markets, Samsung Electronics has announced its 250GB 1.8-inch hard disk drive, the Spinpoint N3U, which...
Friday 3 July 2009
Short supply of notebook HDDs may continue in 3Q09
The tight supply of notebook hard drives is expected to continue throughout the third quarter, according to IC distributor GMI Technology and Weikeng Industrial, sales agents for...
Thursday 7 May 2009
SSD electricity savings could power an entire country, says iSuppli
The use of solid-state drives (SSDs) could allow the world's data centers to reduce their cumulative electricity consumption by 166,643 megawatt hours (MWH) from 2008 to 2013, according...
Monday 23 February 2009
SSD-based 8.9-inch netbooks seeing sharp price drops
Netbook vendors are dropping prices of their 8.9-inch netbooks models to clear inventory, and solid state drive-based (SSD-based) models are seeing the sharpest drops, according to...
Friday 23 January 2009
NAND flash recovery to boost SSD demand in 2H09, say memory module makers
The penetration of solid state drives (SSD) will start to pick up in the second half of 2009, when supply and demand in the overall NAND flash market returns to balance, according...
Thursday 8 January 2009
Toshiba to launch new portable 500GB external 2.5-inch HDD in February
Toshiba will launch its new portable 500GB external 2.5-inch hard disk drive (HDD), the R500E03D, in its main markets around the world in February 2009, according to Toshiba's manufacturing...
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...