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Study Group: Hard Disk Drive Experts

Council Members in this Study Group: 36

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Hussein Fawaz

SVP & GM EMEA
AMKOR TECHNOLOGY, INC. - CC
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Hussein Fawaz is currently SVP & General Manager of EMEA at Amkor Technology the second largest assembly and test semiconductor subcontractor provider. Amkor customers include all semiconductor companies (IDM and Fabless) as well many electronics OEM companies. He was most recently (3/09) VP of ASIC...

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Marc Staimer, President, DRAGON SLAYER CONSULTINGMarc Staimer

President
DRAGON SLAYER CONSULTING
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Marc Staimer is the President of Dragon Slayer Consulting, focused on in-depth, detailed analysis of the storage, SAN, server, and I/O markets, (aka System Area Networks) vendors, users, technologies, and real value propositions. Mr. Staimer has helped guide strategic direction of the enterprise storage...

Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin AssociatesThomas Coughlin

President
Coughlin Associates
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Tom Coughlin is the President of Coughlin Associates, Inc. He is an acknowledged authority on data storage products including storage devices, network attached storage, storage area networks, and storage applications. Dr. Coughlin has held senior engineering and management positions at companies such...

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Optical disc drives being replaced by flash memory in computers?

November 4, 2009

Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates

PC makeover: slimmer profile, no DVD drive | www.mercurynews.com

Many PC makers are not including optical drives, especially for laptops and netbooks. Leaving out optical drives is being done not to reduce cost but to allow slimmer laptop and netbook computers. Flash memory with built in programs and entertainment content are now on the market in USB as wellas...

Rare earth metals ban by China could impact hard disk drive production

September 22, 2009

Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates

World faces hi-tech crunch as China eyes ban on rare metals exports | www.telegraph.co.uk

China has been the single largest supplier country for rare earth metals such as terbium, dysprosium, yttrium, thulium, lutetium, neodymium, europium, cerium and lanthanum. China is contemplating a ban of some of these metals and restrictions on supply on many others. Many vital technologies aredependent...

Dual Stage Actuator HDDs appear on SATA disk drives

September 21, 2009

Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates

Western Digital debuts 2 TB, 7200 RPM Caviar HDDs | www.techspot.com

Western Digital announced that their new 2 TB 7,200 RPM Caviar HDDs use dual actuators. Dual (actually dual-stage) actuators provide a coarser movement of the recording head to tracks using head arms moved by a conventional voice coil motor while a finer motion is provided using a piezoelectric actuator...

High capacity hard disk drive components proliferate

September 21, 2009

Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates

SDK Starts Shipments of 2.5-inch 334 GB HDD Media | www.marketwatch.com

Showa Denko, the largest independent magnetic disk manufacturer, has started shipping 2.5-inch hard disks with 334 GB capacity. This disk formats are those used in laptop computers and smaller external hard disk drives (especially where power is off the same USB interface as the data transfer).The...

Hybrid PCs, will they make a difference?

September 21, 2009

Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates

HP equips desktop PCs with SSDs for faster Windows 7 boots | www.thestandard.com

HP has introduced a desktop computer with a combination of an SSD and a HDD. The SSD will store Windows and commonly accessed applications while the HDD stores user data and other content. The SSD provides faster performance than a HDD for sequential data transfer but may be slower than the HDD for...

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Members in this Study Group include these company types:

  • Hard Disk Drive Company
  • Individual/Small Consultancy
  • Market Research Company*
  • Storage Systems
  • Distributor
  • Management Consultancy

Members in this Study Group often have these job titles:

  • Consultant
  • Business Development Manager
  • President
  • Research Manager
  • Principal
  • Director
  • Product Development Manager

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