The culprit is the supply shortage of hard disk drives resulting from floods in Thailand.
We also think sales of hard disk drives will be hurt by the emergence of tablet computers.
FORBES: Seagate: S&P Capital IQ Cuts Rating To Hold From Buy
Consumer devices use common digital storage technology such as flash memory, hard disk drives or optical discs.
FORBES: Will You Remember Me When I am Gone: The Persistent Danger of Data Loss
Thus consumer storage growth will be a driver in cost effective digital storage provided by hard disk drives.
The company has controlled its costs by using three tiers of storage with hard disk drives and magnetic tape.
Hard disk drives are popular in laptop and desktop computers since they provide high storage capacities at low cost.
FORBES: Is 64 GB Big Enough -- Why Tablet Computers May Need More Storage?
Flash memory does not have the physical limitations of hard disk drives and they keep better pace with processors.
FORBES: If EMC Learns To Love All-Flash Arrays, Stock Goes To $37
The TCG standards cover various Self Encrypted Drives (SEDs) such as hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid state drives (SSDs).
The bulk of digital content in data centers will remain on magnetic storage media either hard disk drives or magnetic tape.
Such a dual storage system combines the advantages of higher speed flash memory with lower storage cost hard disk drives.
Seagate is the worldwide leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions.
ENGADGET: Seagate ships 3.5-inch Barracuda Green internal hard drive, leaves and all
Seagate is a world leader in hard disk drives and storage solutions.
ENGADGET: Seagate now a DECE member, supporting UltraViolet HD
Hard disk drives have shown their own improvements. 4 TB 3.5-inch HDDs are ramping into production by all the remaining HDD companies.
Hybrid hard disk drives and some dual storage computers appear to be the great hope of notebook computers over the next few years.
The desktop Apple computers, the iMac and Mac mini, will include a combination of hard disk drives and flash memory called a Fusion drive.
FORBES: Will A Fusion Drive Approach Become Widespread in Computers?
Commonly called SSDs or Solid State Disks, these devices put NAND flash into computing environments that typically would use hard disk drives, or HDDs.
For the quarter, WD now sees the total addressable market for hard disk drives to be 140 million units, down from 157 million units.
FORBES: Western Digital To Pay Div; $1.5B Buyback; Cuts Guidance
It is also a vital component of high-voltage wires, magnetic coatings for high-density hard disk drives, fiber optics, fiberglass, catalytic converters and spark plugs.
Will the current shortage of hard disk drives, the result of the recent severe flooding in Thailand, lead to a glut of PC chip inventory?
The Archos G9 Android-based tablet computers contain Momentus Thin (7 mm thick) hard disk drives from Seagate Technology rather than flash memory for long term storage.
This will lead to shortages and higher prices for hard disk drives and will cause problems for computer, consumer and enterprise storage customers well into 2012.
FORBES: Capital Equipment Likely Needed for Thailand HDD Factory Repairs
Hard disk drives provide high capacity cost effective digital storage and thus we think that the decline in HDD shipments in 2012 will likely not continue.
In addition, with no moving parts, the SSD is more durable than traditional hard disk drives and it consumes less power to help maximize battery life.
ENGADGET: SanDisk releases Ultra Plus and X110 SSDs with speed on a budget
The need for local storage has made small storage devices one of the fastest growing markets for hard disk drives and soon perhaps also for flash memory.
This is the thing that hard disk drives never had.
FORBES: How NetApp FlashRay Will Disrupt Enterprise Storage, Using Low-Cost Flash Memory (Video)
Microsoft began working on the patches when its labs noticed the problem in 933 MHz and faster prototype systems that use ATA100 hard disk drives with a large physical cache.
Though not directly affected by the Thai flooding, the company cautioned that they could be affected by potential shortages of non-optical components used in customer systems, like hard disk drives.
FORBES: Finisar's Disappointing Outlook Sinks Optical Stocks
With these two mergers the total number of companies manufacturing hard disk drives (HDDs) will decline from five to three, with Toshiba, Seagate and Western Digital as the surviving players.
FORBES: Why Government Regulators Should Approve Hard Disk Drive Company Consolidation
To achieve equal performance on a write IOPS basis utilizing hard disk drives would require over 400 drives, 36U of rack space and consume more than 300 times the power.
应用推荐