GLG News by Hard Disk Drive Experts

Seagate announced that it plans to launch a series of solid state drives in 2008 in a range of form factors and storage capacities.Seagate entered into agreements with suppliers such as Micron to supply flash memory, probably for their new SSD line as well as flash cache in hybrid hard drives.Expansion...

The storage systems industry trade group, SNIA, has decided to tackle the energy issues of running data centers, particularly large data farms.SNIA’s Green Storage Task Force is focusing its efforts on how to reduce storage power, cooling and space needs.Disk drive arrays take a lot of power to run...

WD released their GreenPower line of internal hard disk drives. These products are said to use 40% less power than the competition.The WD GreenPower drives are SATA drives for desktops with storage capacities from 320 GB to 1 TB.WD claims that you can save up to $10 per drive per year in electrical...

On June 27 Western Digital announced that it was buying hard disk manufacturer Komag for $32.25 per share.  Komag warns that CQ2 2007 revenue will be down 30% from CQ1 2007.  Komag expects a substantial operating loss in CQ2 2007.  Western Digital joins Seagate and Hitachi as vertically...

Seagate announced that it is shipping 1 TB hard disk drives joining Hitachi Global Storage Technology and Samsung with a 1 TB product.  The Seagate 1 TB drive uses 4 disks while the Hitachi product uses 5 disks and the Samsung product uses 3 disks.  The Seagate Barracuda ES.2 is designed for...

Hard disk drive storage costs are approaching those of tape storage systems including the costs of tape libraries and serviceFeatures of disk based storage such as SATA drives, grid architectures, de-duplication, removable disk cartridges and asynchronous replication combined with faster speeds to access...

*    Broadcom, Brocade, Cisco, EMC, Emulex, IBM, Intel,  QLogic, Sun Microsystems and Cisco spin-off Nuova Systems are working with the T11 committee to implement a Fibre Channel Over-Ethernet format *   This is intended to support continued use of the fibre channel...

  On April 24 Dell began offering 1.8-inch 32 GB solid state drives (SSDs) as an option for its ultra-portable laptops as well as a semi-rugged laptop Fujitsu and Samsung have also announced laptop computers where a SSD is substituted for a hard disk drive (HDD) Such solid state drives are...

  LSI announced shipments of more than 2 million serial attached storage (SAS) IC units IDC reportedly predicted that in 2007 SAS will achieve 26% enterprise HDD market share SAS is gearing up to replace parallel SCSI for direct attached and network storage enterprise markets Will SAS put...

Seagate, Western Digital, Fujitsu and Toshiba have reported on their HDD unit shipments in CQ1 2007 Although unit numbers were down from Q4 2007 this appears to be relatively normal seasonality HDD shipments are increasingly influenced by consumer electronics trends and there is a danger of declining...