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...
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 fourth-quarter...
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 series...
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...
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...
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...
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.
