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Seagate celebrates milestone: First to ship two billion hard drives

Seagate celebrates milestone: First to ship two billion hard drives
  • Posted March 12, 2013, 11:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Seagate is celebrating a milestone today as they claim to be the first hard drive manufacturer to ship two billion units worldwide. Perhaps more impressive, however, is the fact that it took 29 years to sell the first billion and…

Seagate to end 7200rpm mobile hard drive production this year

Seagate to end 7200rpm mobile hard drive production this year
  • Posted March 4, 2013, 10:19 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • Seagate has revealed it plans to end production of mobile hard drives with 7200rpm spindle speeds by the end of this year. Such drives represent a minority of 2.5-inch shipments and are mostly found in high-end laptops or built-to-order configurations,…

HGST doubles HDD capacities by combining self-assembling molecules, nanoimprinting

HGST doubles HDD capacities by combining self-assembling molecules, nanoimprinting
  • Posted March 1, 2013, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News
  • HGST, a storage firm born from the merger between Hitatchi Global Storage Technologies and Western Digital, claims to have developed self-assembling methods for producing dense magnetic storage drives. Its advancements could more than double the capacity of today's mechanical storage…

HDD revenue to fall 11.8% in 2013, WD may bump Seagate for top spot

HDD revenue to fall 11.8% in 2013, WD may bump Seagate for top spot
  • Posted February 5, 2013, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • Industry analyst IHS iSuppli expects revenue generated by sales of mechanical hard drives to slip by 11.8 percent during 2013. HDD sales in 2012 grossed a healthy $37.1 billion during 2012, but a speculative 11.8 percent drop could whittle that…

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