GLG News by DVD Replication Volume Trend Experts (North America)

* USB 2.0 provides external data rates of 480 Mbps sustained.  eSATA, an external version of the SATA interface currently provides data rates of 3 Gbps sustained  * Next generation USB will have 5 Gbps and next generation eSATA will have 6 Gbps data rates * Recently several laptop and external...

* Oerlikon sold its disk drive sputtering assets to Intevac and exits the hard disk drive business  * Oerlikon, in a former incarnation as Balzers used to be one of the major players in the disk sputtering equipment market but had lost most of its business over the last 10 years  * Despite...

If there's research supporting that target consumers who have something other than a specialized interest in it, and are will to spend on it exists, I haven't read it yet. 

 Seagate has stated that they will introduce a SSD device by the end of 2008 This is expected to be an enterprise level SSD to help protect the company’s position in the enterprise storage market There are several rumors that Seagate is looking at acquisitions to enable its SSD effort Intel...

* Hitachi president Kazuo Furukawa said that Hitachi wants to surpass Seagate’s HDD business profitability  * Furukawa-san said that Hitachi has the latest technology required to be competive in the HDD business  * He also said that there is synergy between Hitachi’s computer business and...

Either get with the program, adapt, or die!

* Iomega had previously entered into an agreement with ExcelStor Great Wall Technology owned by the Chinese government  * Iomega terminated this purchase agreement with ExcelStor  * Iomega entered into an agreement to merge with EMC  * EMC will probably use Iomega as a means to move into...

1. Fox and Paramount “experiment” with new release sales on iTunes      2. Studios have hesitated to offer new releases for sale on iTunes due to pricing fears and the fear of Apple becoming al too powerful.

* Hitachi introduced a 500 GB 2.5-inch hard disk drive in January 2008 but the product would not fit into a conventional 2.5-inch hard drive bay  * Fujitsu followed suit with a 500 GB 2.5-inch HDD announcement with a similar thicker drive package  * Samsung announced in March that they would...

* Seagate says that if SSDs start to threaten HDDs Seagate may sue SSD companies such as Intel and Samsung for patent infringement  * Seagate and WD have patents with many of the ways that a storage device communicates with a computer and SSDs may use some of these approaches  * SSDs are being...