The company, a joint venture between Hitachi and LG Electronics, rigged bids on optical
disc drive sales to Dell and Hewlett-Packard, and fixed prices on drives sold to Microsoft, according to a 15-count felony charge filed with the U.S.
This region is the fastest growing in the world, with around 30 per cent of all hard
disc drive business being generated here within the next three to five years, according to Socratous.
Big changes are coming for the hard
disc drive market.
Prior to the introduction of the notebook-use
disc drive, Panasonic will ship samples of the half-height (41.3-mm) desktop version in October and start volume production by January 2006.
Currie Munce, IBM's director of hard disk drive technology, holds up the 1956 Ramac
disc drive and a current IBM Microdrive at the company's hard drive museum in Calfornia.
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Over the past two years alone, Seagate exercises its leadership with the introduction of the world's fastest
disc drive (Cheetah X15), the world's highest capacity
disc drive (Barracuda 180), and the lowest cost SCSI
disc drive (Barracuda 36ES).
Seagate Technology Inc is claiming to have demonstrated the world's highest disk drive areal density of greater than 16 billion bits per square-inch - nearly three times the storage capacity per square inch of any hard
disc drive shipping today, it says.
10, 2009 (CENS) -- Succeeding in venturing into the slim
disc drive segment this year, Taiwan-based Lite-On Information Technology Corp., the largest maker of half-height
disc drive on the island, scored combined revenue of NT5.67 billion (US$174.46 million at US$1: NT$32.5) for October, up 8.88% from September and hitting a single-month high, according to company sources.
What do a high-rise elevator and
disc drive technology Serial ATA Native Command Queuing (NCQ) have in common?
disc drive - computer hardware that holds and spins a magnetic or optical disk and reads and writes information on it