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disk drive

a mechanical device in a COMPUTER which records and retrieves data from a rotating magnetic or vinyl disk.
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What's more, the Portable Hard Disk Drive industry development trends and marketing channels are analyzed.
Portable Hard Disk Drive Market Macroeconomic Environment Development, Trend and Analysis by 2021
Hard disk drives and storage solutions company Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX) announced on Wednesday better than expected results for its fiscal second quarter ended 30 December 2011.
Seagate reports better than expected sales for December quarter
The main impact of the transaction is on the markets for 3.5' desktop hard disk drives and 2.5' mobile hard disk drives where the investigation revealed that Samsung is not a particularly strong competitor.
MERGERS : SEAGATE CLEARED TO BUY SAMSUNG'S HARD DISK DRIVE BUSINESS
In addition to the high capacity HDD, Toshiba's new family of high performance hard disk drives will deliver speeds of 7,200rpm, the company said.
Toshiba introduces new 320GB small form factor hard drive
"Fujitsu has focused heavily on R&D to establish itself as the leader in the 2.5" SATA hard disk drive space," said Joel Hagberg, vice president, marketing and business development, Fujitsu Computer Products of America.
FUJITSU UNVEILS HDD FOR AUDIO RECORDING/DVR FUNCTIONALITY
In response to these demands Fujitsu has developed and is now offering the Nearline FC disk drive, a low-price, high-reliability disk drive for use in its ETERNUS6000 and ETERNUS3000 storage systems.
Fujitsu Launches Nearline FC Drive for ETERNUS Storage Systems; Enables Dramatic Reduction in Data-storage Costs for Archiving and Backup
Defects such as chips, cracks, and contamination are not allowed on a disk drive head.
Automated inspection systems for the electronics industry: as IC devices get smaller and smaller, the challenge of detecting faults becomes bigger and bigger
The company will increase overseas production to 65% of the total disk drive output, up from 55% now, in order to reduce costs.
Matsushita-Kotobuki to restructure hard-disk business
IBM Corp yesterday launched the world's highest capacity hard disk drive for desktop PCs, a move it says will allow OEMs to future-proof PCs for tomorrow's data-hungry applications.
IBM Unveils Next Generation Desktop Hard Drives
So, this week, I gave the Dell desktop and the IBM Thinkpad to my colleagues and I bought a Compaq LTE 5200 with an active matrix color monitor, 120 MHz Pentium processor, 1.35 gigabyte disk drive, a removable 4 speed CD ROM drive, a 28,800 baud fax-modem, a PCMCIA 10BaseT ethernet adapter, and 75 megabytes of RAM.
The wonderful evolution of personal computers

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