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  • Thai floods hit Q4 hard drive production, says research firm

    The devastating floods in Thailand will cause a 28 percent quarter-on-quarter drop in hard disk drive (HDD) production in the fourth quarter, potentially affecting notebook production in early 2012, research firm IHS iSuppli said on Monday.

    Written by John Ribeiro01 Nov. 11 17:20
  • EC approves Seagate acquisition of Samsung drive business

    The European Commission approved on Wednesday the acquisition by Seagate Technology of the hard disk drive (HDD) business of Samsung Electronics, after concluding that there will still be enough players in the market after the acquisition.

    Written by John Ribeiro20 Oct. 11 16:07
  • Western Digital extends suspension of operations in Thailand

    Western Digital said its primary manufacturing facility in Thailand was flooded over the weekend, with its secondary site also at risk, raising the possibility of a global shortage of hard disk drives (HDD) in the current quarter.

    Written by John Ribeiro18 Oct. 11 15:29
  • Western Digital halts hard disk production in Thailand

    The production of hard disks at Western Digital (WD) facilities close to Bangkok, Thailand, has been halted following severe flooding, the company said on Wednesday.

    Written by Mikael Ricknäs12 Oct. 11 20:39
  • Can you put an SSD and HDD in a laptop?

    After reading The Best of Both Worlds: An SSD and a HDD, George McCluney asked if it's possible to combine both drives on a laptop.

    Written by Lincoln Spector15 Sept. 11 01:16
  • Intel announces new 710 series enterprise SSDs

    Intel on Wednesday announced the new 710 series solid-state drives, which the company is pitching as a replacement to hard drives in enterprise servers.

    Written by Agam Shah15 Sept. 11 09:56
  • Intel posts fix for bug that crashes SSD 320 drives

    Intel on Wednesday issued a firmware upgrade that fixes a bug that caused its SSD 320 solid-state drives to crash and lose data, months after the issue first came to light.

    Written by Agam Shah18 Aug. 11 06:46
  • Intel to issue bug fix for SSD 320 drives in two weeks

    Intel on Monday said it will issue a firmware upgrade within two weeks to fix a bug that causes its SSD 320 solid-state drives to fail, which should resolve months of criticism of the company's slow response to the problem.

    Written by Agam Shah16 Aug. 11 03:40
  • NAND flash can verify a device's identity

    People who make, buy and sell flash storage could detect counterfeit products based on the unique "fingerprints" of the chips, using techniques being developed by university researchers.

    Written by Stephen Lawson13 Aug. 11 09:51
  • Samsung aims to drive up tablet storage with new SSDs

    Tablet users may need more storage capacity in the future, and Samsung Semiconductor on Thursday announced it is now making its fastest solid-state drives for tablets and laptops with capacity of up to 512GB.

    Written by Agam Shah12 Aug. 11 02:30
  • Seagate offers data recovery with hard drive purchase

    Hard drive crashes are a nightmare for computer users for many reasons. Not only can data held dear to one's heart be lost, but trying to recover it can cost an arm and a leg, if not more. Hard drive maker Seagate attempts to address both those problems with the release today of its GoFlex Turbo drive with SafetyNet data recovery services.

    Written by John P. Mello Jr.09 Aug. 11 03:43
  • Flash storage moves closer to CPUs

    In a bid to maximize the speed advantage of solid-state storage, more vendors are promoting approaches that move it closer to the CPUs that process stored data.

    Written by Stephen Lawson04 Aug. 11 21:57
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