Japan-based Hitachi on March 7 announced that it has sold subsidiary Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HGST), a top three hard disk drive (HDD) maker globally, to Western Digital...
With its purchase of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST), hard drive maker Western Digital (WDC) will pad its lead in the global hard disk drive (HDD) market, giving...
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...
Media Tablets, already cannibalizing netbooks and smartbooks, will impact hard disk drive (HDD) sales as units contain solid state drives (SSDs) instead of HDDs, according to The Information...
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...
Cal-Comp Electronics, a Thailand-based EMS provider belonging to the Taiwan-based Compal-Kinpo Group, recorded consolidated revenues of NT$120.868 billion (US$3.78 billion) for 2010...
The proportion of 2.5-inch 500GB single-platter models in global hard disk drive (HDD) shipments is forecast at 30-35% for first-quarter 2011 and 40% for the second quarter, according...
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...
The mainstream capacity of notebook internal hard disk drives (HDDs) will increase from 320GB in 2010 to 500GB in 2011, while netbook drives will be 320GB, according to Taiwan-based...
As notebook brand vendors are starting to prepare their shipments for the end-of-year holidays, hard drive makers, which had conservative production plans for the fourth quarter due...
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; however,...
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...
