GLG News by Hard Disk Drive Experts

*IDC completed a study using internal information for a report sponsored by EMC on total information created out to 2010 *This report was an extension of sorts of a analysis last done by the Haas School of Business at CD Berkeley in 2003 *IDC results estimate that 161 Exabytes of storage was created...

  The February USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies in San Jose contained two papers that questioned notions of disk drive reliability According to results from a Google presentation disk drives seemed to show no serious reliability variation with temperature According the interpretations...

  Microsoft Vista enables the use of flash for write cache on hard disk drives as well as flash cache as a flash read cache Although both ReadyDrive (hybrid disk drives with flash write cache) and ReadyBoost (flash read cache USB drives) have been demonstrated at trade shows for the last year...

  Seagate introduced its DAVE technology that combines an external storage device with its own power source and a wireless networking capability The DAVE technology provides a personal network storage solution (PAN) for mobile devices The initial DAVE product uses a 1-inch disk drive to provide...

1. Hedge funds are missing out on the spectacular returns that certain tech startups can provide. 2. Risks can be managed almost to zero using new business scoring models introduced at UCLA. 3. It's time to replace blind speculation with prudent, measured risk-taking.

  Hitachi Global Storage Technology announced at the 2007 CES conference that they would begin shipping the world’s first 1 TB hard disk drive The Hitachi drive uses perpendicular recording to achieve 3.5-inch disk drive areal densities of over 140 Gbpsi The Hitachi announcement follows announcements...

Cable, Satellite and DSL Companies have a huge opportunity before them to streamline downloads Cable Companies seem to be in the Lead vs. the DSL/Satellite pairs Any solution must keep costs down to encourage adoption

  Several hard disk drive companies announced the formation of the Hybrid Hard Disk Drive Alliance to promote the use of hard disk drives with nonvolatile flash memory cache on the drive The flash memory asks as both a nonvolatile write cache and to hold some of the operating system for faster...

*  This B2.0 Story originated from an interview with myself (see quote in paragraph 5 of article) and a few of my startup colleagues in the UCLA Technology Innovators' Forum I founded.*  Hedge funds are missing out big time on the spectacular returns that certain tech startups can provide....

Seagate has to make up its mind strategically about what business it wants to be in   This diversification approach failed when HDD vendor WD tried it in the late nineties   I helped clean up that mess as acting COO of WD/Connex, which made NAS boxes that would use WD HDD’s