Study Group: Hard Disk Drive Experts(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 29
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
VP of ASIC and Design Solutions
INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
Hussein Fawaz is VP of ASIC and Design Solutions (ADS) at Infineon Technologies A.G. in Munich, Germany. Since July of 2003, he has managed a team of 200 engineers, business development and operations staff...
Marc StaimerPresident
Dragon Slayer Consulting
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 CoughlinPresident
Coughlin Associates
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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* There are rumors that Western Digital is working on a 20,000 RPM Raptor drive * Other HDD companies such as Seagate, Fujitsu and others are also working on improving rotational as well as track change drive latencies * SSDs are starting to compete against HDDs for performance oriented...
* Nintendo and InPhase are apparently doing some joint work on holographic storage * InPhase has been pursuing a holographic storage system (primarily for write once archive applications) for several years * Any holographic storage product likely will not be in a Nintendo game system for...
* SanDisk recently revealed a proposal for creating a single metric representing the expected lifetime of a solid state drive * The SanDisk metric is called “Longterm Data Endurance” or LDE * The SanDisk proposal comes at a time that several organizations such as IDEMA and JEDEC are discussing...
* JEDEC is a memory standards body that is very active and respected in the electronics industry * JEDEC has formed a committee to develop standards for NAND flash solid state drives * The JEDEC committee will be co-chaired by Micron and Seagate * Seagate expects to announce their...
* Seagate announced their Barracuda 1.5 TB disk drive, the first announced disk drive with more than 1TB capacity * Seagate also announced their first 500 GB 2.5-inch drive products with 5200 and 7200 RPM * The 3.5-inch 1.5 TB product will begin shipping in August 2008 while the 2.5-inch...
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